Worldwatch Institute: 42 books
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In this fifteenth edition of State of the World, Lester R. Brown and the Worldwatch research team look at the environmental effects of continuing economic growth as the economy outgrows the earth's ecosystem. As the global economy has expanded from $5 trillion of output in 1950 to $29 trillion in 1997, its demands have crossed many of the earth's sustainable yield thresholds
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This sixteenth volume of Worldwatch’s Vital Signs series makes it clear that climate change is both a growing driver of and an increasingly important motivator behind the world’s leading economic, social, and environmental trends
State of the World 2004
Special Focus: The Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
With chapters on food, water, energy, the politics of consumption and redefining the good life, Worldwatch’s award-winning research team asks whether a less-consumptive society is possible—and then argues that it is essential.
State of the World 2005
Redefining Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In State of the World 2005, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources. Find out why terrorism is just symptomatic of a far broader set of complex problems that require more than a military response.
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The challenges are still immense, of course, as the book also documents, but the building blocks for a historic reinvention of human civilization are now within reach.
Vital Signs Volume 21
The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Vital Signs Volume 21 is all about growth. From natural disasters to cars to organic farming, the two dozen trends examined here indicate both increasing pressure on natural resources and scaled up efforts to live more sustainably. In 2012, world auto production set yet another record with passenger-car...
EarthEd (State of the World)
Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Earth education is traditionally confined to specific topics: ecoliteracy, outdoor education, environmental science. But in the coming century, on track to be the warmest in human history, every aspect of human life will be affected by our changing planet. Emerging diseases, food shortages, drought,...
State of the World 2010
Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Like a tsunami, consumerism has engulfed human cultures and Earth’s ecosystems. Left unaddressed, we risk global disaster. But if we channel this wave, intentionally transforming our cultures to center on sustainability, we will not only prevcatastrophe, but may usher in an era of sustainability—one...
State of the World 2006
Special Focus: China and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems. The report explains the critical need for both countries to "leapfrog" the technologies, policies, and even the cultures that...
State of the World 2008
Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Environmental issues were once regarded as irrelevant to economic activity, but today they are dramatically rewriting the rules for business, investors, and consumers. Around the world, innovative responses to climate change and other environmental problems are affecting more than $100 billion in...
Biofuels for Transport
Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The world is on the verge of an unprecedented increase in the production and use of biofuels for transport. The combination of rising oil prices, issues of security, climate instability and pollution, deepening poverty in rural and agricultural areas, and a host of improved technologies, is propelling...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This much-anticipated edition of Vital Signs covers 35 global trends that are shaping our future. From carbon emissions to loss of wetlands, each trend provides a brief status report on the topic plus graphs and charts that offer a visual comparison over time. Categories include Food, Economics, Transportation, Health, Governance, Energy and Climate, and Conflict and Peace.
Vital Signs 2005-2006
The Trends that are Shaping our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
'VITAL SIGNS does for the environment what stock market indicators do for the City. But it says more about the future of our world than the FTSE ever can ' BBC Wildlife Magazine 'VITAL SIGNS is a sharply focused snapshot of the world� Ideal for dipping into � it makes fascinating reading ' New...
State of the World 2011
Innovations that Nourish the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
A compelling look at the global food crisis, with particular emphasis on global innovations that can help solve a worldwide problem. State of the World 2011 not only introduces us to the latest agro-ecological innovations and their global applicability but also gives broader insights into issues including poverty, international politics, and even gender equity.