Board of Directors

Alan Anderson

President, Anderson's China Shop (retired)

Susan Colwell

Businesswoman and agricultural researcher (retired)

Pat Gottschalk

Businesswoman and Japan educational exchange leader

Steve Hardy

Musician and businessman

Stacy Morrison

Businesswoman and university student

David Paxson

President, World Population Balance

Board of Advisors

George Archibald

Co-founder, International Crane Foundation

Albert A. Bartlett

Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder

David Bengston

Ecological Economist and Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota

Norman Borlaug

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and father of the Green Revolution

Nina Leopold Bradley

Director, Aldo Leopold Foundation

Ulf S. H. Christiansen

Norwegian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates

Dr. Vijoya Dasgupta, MD

Physician, State of Wisconsin

John B. Davis

Former College President and School Superintendent

Lowell Erdahl

Bishop, St. Paul Area Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (retired)

Richard Flint

Attorney and conservationist

CEO of CFR Corporation (retired)

Richard Grossman, M.D.

Practicing Obstetrician/ Gynecologist

Thomas Hale, M.D.

Author and medical missionary in Nepal

Sister Marlys Jax

Assisi Heights Catholic Community

Ed McGaa, Eagle Man

Oglala Sioux lawyer, writer and lecturer

William G. Milliken

Former Governor, State of Michigan

Father Tim Power

Pastor, Pax Christie Catholic Community

Gretchen Quie

Former First Lady, State of Minnesota

Arthur Rouner

Senior Minister Emeritus, Colonial Church of Edina, United Church of Christ

Sister Mary Zirbes

Field of Social Justice

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Education Opportunities and Population Issues

"No matter what your cause, it's a lost cause without population stabilization."

Dear Educator:

Welcome! We hope you will find this workshop highly stimulating and informative. We hope you will leave here convinced that population growth is, arguably, the world's most pressing problem. We hope you will feel inspired to return to your classrooms and (1) increase your lessons about population growth and its negative impact upon nearly all other major issues in the world, and (2) convey information about the numerous benefits that will result from stabilizing and slowly reducing human numbers to sustainable levels.

Our mission: World Population Balance is dedicated to raising awareness by educating the general public, policy makers, and the media about the ominous implications of population growth and the benefits of stabilization.

Guiding Principles: Population must be balanced by fair, humane and non-coersive means. We respectfully agree to disagree on the issue of abortion. We take an educational approach.

Once people understand how rapidly humans are depleting many of the world's resources, they then realize there is no such thing as a "sustainable" rate of population growth. Our current extraction and use of resources beyond their replacement rates is already unsustainable. As a result, we are diminishing the quality of life for future generations. It is essential that we reduce consumption and stop population growth.

One of our most successful educational initiatives involves school and college presentations. We are tremendously grateful to the World Population Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation for support to expand our educational outreach activities.

During coming months and years we look forward to serving you as a resource for population information as well as for classroom presentations-- either for individual classes or larger assemblies.

Please call upon us at any time for further support in teaching about this most critical issue facing our future on the planet.

Yours for population stabilization,