December 14, 2020 | Article
Rep. Joyce Beatty, #Fight4HER staff, and fellows at the East Coast Summer of HER Summit Summer of HER Summits Against the backdrop of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a national reckoning on race, our virtual Summer of HER program chugged on successfully throughout the summer with our organizers and fellows…...
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June 1, 2020 | Article
Social Distancing Not Stopping Our Work With Teachers In a typical spring, PopEd staff would be crisscrossing the country, facilitating workshops with current and future teachers on campuses, in K-12 schools, and at conference centers. In mid-March, these plans, along with everyone else’s plans everywhere, came to a screeching halt.…...
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April 22, 2020 | Post
The coronavirus pandemic canceled in-person events for Earth Day 2020 — the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day — so we asked supporters to participate from home by taking our Earth Day Challenge! Beginning on April 1, we asked participants to consider one challenge each day to reduce their individual…...
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July 3, 2019 | Post
July 11, 2019, marks 30 years of observing World Population Day. Since the first World Population Day, in 1989, a lot has changed. Global population had just reached the 5 billion milestone two years earlier. China’s draconian one-child policy was in full force. The HIV/AIDS crisis was in its early…...
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November 24, 2021 | Post
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the feast that is most often credited with becoming the first “day of thanksgiving”—the meal shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to celebrate their gratitude for the fall harvest. But for the past half-century, the United American Indians…...
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2023 | Article
Thank You for Joining Us Online! If you haven’t checked out the array of virtual events Population Connection hosts each month, you’re missing out! This summer, hundreds of members and supporters have joined us for several exciting events: Population Connection’s communications staff marked World Population Day on July 11 with…...
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June 10, 2024 | Article
On the Road with PopEd, Spring 2024 Edition From New York to Arizona, and many points in between, PopEd’s professional staff just wrapped up a busy spring on the road facilitating workshops for current and future teachers. I asked five of our team members to share some highlights of their…...
Read MoreMarch 11, 2024 | Article
Long-time Population Connection members Norton and Irene Starr have been supporting the organization at the President’s Circle level since 2005. Norton first became aware of Population Connection over 20 years ago, when he saw President and CEO John Seager give a talk at Amherst College, where Norton taught for 43…...
Read MoreMarch 21, 2022 | Article
With the right to abortion under threat, men say they want to play a role in reproductive planning to support their partners. Originally published by The Washington Post on December 26, 2021 After Andy and Erin Gress had their fourth child, Andy decided it was time for him to “step…...
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October 23, 2023 | Post
Degrowth, an environmental ideology that seeks to replace our current growth-based economic systems, has been gaining traction in recent years. Let’s explore what degrowth proponents aim to achieve and how this fits in with the goal of ending human population growth. The origins of degrowth The term ‘degrowth’ (translated from…...
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