Bücher von Worldwatch Institute

Tackles the pressing issue of international security and its ramifications on the health of our planet.

From the Worldwatch Institute, the premier environmental nonprofit, comes an incisive account of the global food crisis and how it can be solved.

The premier environmental nonprofit shows the ways to transform our consumer culture into a culture centered on sustainability.

Growing evidence suggests that the global economy, rooted in ideas and assumptions that were progressive two hundred years ago, is now destroying its own ecological base and offering little to billions of impoverished people. In response, pioneers are creating the architecture of sustainable economies, one innovation at a time. State of the World 2008 describes these innovations-from microfinance to closed-loop manufacturing and the use of trusts to protect common resources-as well as identifying the obstacles that prevent a critical mass of people and organizations from moving toward sustainability, and rallying coalitions of stakeholders that can produce win-win solutions and strategies for achieving specific sustainability goals.

A comprehensive guide to global warming and the steps we must take to combat it.