Alan Kuper ALAN KUPER, Ph.D

ALAN KUPER, CUSP President, is a long-time volunteer environmental activist, recipient of two national Sierra Club awards. For over 25 years he has been the "Voice of the Sierra Club" on WCLV-FM, Cleveland's classical music station. Since 1989 he has concentrated on population, chairing population-environment activity in Ohio Sierra Club. He was named the nation’s "most effective population-environment volunteer" for 1995" by Population Communication International. He continues to work closely with other population-environment organizations and serves as a member of the FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) Board of Advisors.


In 2000, in response to the refusal of the U.S. Environmental Establishment to consider immigration numbers. Dr. Kuper founded CUSP- Comprehensive (approach to) U.S. Sustainable Population, <www,uscongress-enviroscore.org>, to emphasize that U.S. government actions which promote population growth are the most important environmental decisions. CUSP is all-volunteer, non-profit with Partners in 48 states and DC, united in the conviction that the U.S. is overpopulated and that, to preserve the environment at home and worldwide, U.S. consumption and especially population must gradually be reduced to long-term sustainable levels.

Kuper is a solid-state physicist (B.S. Univ. of Chicago, PhD. Univ. of Illinois, Post-Doc. Princeton) retired after a career in research and development at Bell Telephone Laboratories and teaching at Case Institute of Technology/Case Western Reserve University in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. <alankuper@att.net>
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CREDITS

Thanks to those many population-environment colleagues who have advised, encouraged and donated to help create CUSP. Especially singled out are the seven leading Washington, DC population-environment organizations whose representatives offered advice at a meeting I convened in DC June 7, 2000 to float the CUSP idea. Particular thanks to Werner Fornos for making The Population Institute available for that meeting.

Many thanks to Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) who made it possible for CUSP to be unveiled at the landmark CAPS 2000 Population and Environment Conference in Los Angeles at the Univ. of Southern California, August 12-13, 2000. The unanimous support I received encouraged me to proceed.

Thanks to my good friends Jim Schafer of SK Microsystems, Inc. for design and construction of this website, Tom Rask for for the design of the CUSP logo and of this booklet and Steve Calhoun for computer and web assistance.

Special thanks to the famous cartoonists: Jim Borgman, Jim Day, David Horsey, Peter Kuper, Doug MacGregor, Keith Robinson, Tom Toles, Dan Wasserman and Signe Wilkinson and John Kichi who support our efforts by generously permitting use of their cartoons which greatly enhance the CUSP scorecard booklet.

Alan Kuper

Release of LCV Scorecard, October, 1994, Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Media event staged by Dr. Kuper representing LCV.

Thanks to the League of Conservation Voters for their extraordinary work. In past years at its request I have had the privilege of chairing and co-chairing two major LCV events in Cleveland. My LCV T-shirt reads, "Protecting the Environment From Politicians."

Thanks to Jack Martin and the other legislation monitors at FAIR for their help. Special thanks to Roy Beck and the team at NumbersUSA, Jon Eifert and Anne Manetas for their advice, especially to Jon for his help at Americans for Better Immigration (ABI). Thanks also to Brian Dixon and Heather Smith at PC(ZPG).

Most important, thanks to the Partners in 48 states and the District of Columbia whose support makes CUSP possible.

Finally, to Ginger, wife and best friend, thanks for...everything.

Alan Kuper