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Also from World Watch is the annual report entitled State of the World. This is available from the Web site www.worldwatch.org.
Jack Ewing • Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate
scientist, author, Senior Fellow at the Post-Carbon Institute, and one of the foremost analysts of our energy future, explained it to me: In short, our rate of consumption is overshooting our planet’s sustainable sources of production. According to the Global Footprint Network, humanity is currently using the equivalent of 1.75 Earths to provide th
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
One basic calculation puts it this way: The human impact is equal to the population times GDP/population times impact/GDP, sometimes summarized as I = P × A × T, where I is impact, P is population, A is affluence (GDP per capita), and T is technology (impact/GDP).10 What is clear from this equation is that per capita economic growth (a rise in A) o
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Wind potential estimates at land-based and
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
The Daily Planet #3
This third edition of the Daily Planet might feel very unplanetary, but to the extent that China will be a/the Climate Leviathan of the future, Wang Huning's thinking about political ecology will determine our planetary condition.
Wang is the most powerful intellectual in the world and - if it comes to pass - the architect of a un
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