Links About Population and Sustainability

www.populationeducation.org

This website for The Population Connection provides population education information for pre-K through grade 12 teachers and students.

Utah 2050 Alternative Futures: Utah Long Term Projections

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 1996 and 2005.

www.governor.state.ut.us/dea/

The State of Utah Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, Demographic and Economic Analysis website. “Your Source for Information About Demographic, Economic and Fiscal Issues Impacting Utah.”

www.envisionutah.org

Addresses ways on the Greater Wasatch Front to protect our environment and maintain our economic vitality and quality of life as we accommodate anticipated growth.

www.prb.org

Population Reference Bureau – “Providing timely and objective population information.”

www.unfpa.org

The United Nations Population Fund website provides an enormous amount of material on population issues and the state of world population.

www.worldwatch.org

The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society. The website includes population as a special feature. The Sept-Oct. 2004 WorldWatch Magazine was devoted to population issues.

www.audubonpopulation.org

National Audubon Society’s Population and Habitat Program addresses human population growth and the impacts this has on wildlife habitat.

www.sierraclub.org/population

What Sierra Club does: Population growth affects the environment. We work to slow that growth and its impacts by promoting voluntary family planning and by encouraging the public to advocate for women and girls' access to basic rights, including health care and education.

www.patwaak.com/paslides/Planet%20Awakening_021705_files/frame.htm

Planet Awakening Slide Show: A slideshow on population, creation and hope. Written and presented by Patricia Waak.

A Utah Story: On the Greater Wasatch Front

by Peter Grundfossen, March 2001.

© 2006 Utah Population and Environment Coalition