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Worldwatch Blogs Five Private Companies that are Helping to Reduce Hunger Expanding Energy Access through Decentralized and Local Generation of Renewables Thistle Farms: In the Street, Cultivating an Alternative to the Streets In Case You Missed it: This Week in Review Connecting Farmers to Markets in Mali 12 Steps to Go Green for the Developing World Listening to Farmers’ Voices: An Interview with Eugenio Tisselli Vélez Meet the Nourishing the Planet Team: Leah Baines	Vital Signs Online World Grain Production Down in 2010 but Recovering High-Speed Rail Networks Expand World Labor Force Growing at Divergent Rates Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Grow Tropical Forests Push Payments for Ecosystem Services onto the Global Stage Biofuels Regain Momentum Global Oil Market Resumes Growth after Stumble in 2009 Another Record Year for Solar Power, But Clouds on the Horizon
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Current Projects Nourishing the Planet Evaluating environmentally sustainable solutions to reduce global hunger and rural poverty MORE Energy Roadmaps for the Caribbean Working to provide realistic and practicable avenues toward a sustainable energy future in the Caribbean. MORE	Latest Published Research Vital Signs: Global Energy Poverty Around the world, billions in poverty struggle with insufficient energy access every day. MORE Vital Signs: Increased Hydropower Usage Global use of hydropower increased more than 5 percent between 2009 and 2010, setting a new record. MORE
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Worldwatch Blogs Expanding Energy Access through Decentralized and Local Generation of Renewables Keystone XL Update Jamaica Changes Its Government, But What About Its Energy Strategy? Upcoming Delhi Sustainable Development Summit Will Highlight Global Inequity China Unleashes New Initiatives in Its Push to Secure a Sustainable Future Stakeholders Discuss a Future Without Nuclear Abu Dhabi Emerging as a Hub for Global Clean Energy Talks An Uncertain Mandate from Durban	Vital Signs Online Biofuels Regain Momentum Global Oil Market Resumes Growth after Stumble in 2009 Another Record Year for Solar Power, But Clouds on the Horizon Global Wind Power Growth Takes a Breather in 2010 Value of Fossil Fuel Subsidies Declines; National Bans Emerging Carbon Capture and Storage Attract Government Attention Carbon Markets Struggle to Maintain Momentum Global Coal Use Stagnates Despite Growing Chinese and Indian Markets
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Current Projects Energy Roadmaps for the Caribbean Working to provide realistic and practicable avenues toward a sustainable energy future in the Caribbean. MORE	Latest Published Research Vital Signs: Global Energy Poverty Around the world, billions in poverty struggle with insufficient energy access every day. MORE Vital Signs: Increased Hydropower Usage Global use of hydropower increased more than 5 percent between 2009 and 2010, setting a new record. MORE
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Worldwatch Blogs Five Private Companies that are Helping to Reduce Hunger Thistle Farms: In the Street, Cultivating an Alternative to the Streets In Case You Missed it: This Week in Review Connecting Farmers to Markets in Mali 12 Steps to Go Green for the Developing World Listening to Farmers’ Voices: An Interview with Eugenio Tisselli Vélez Meet the Nourishing the Planet Team: Leah Baines Innovation of the Week: Cell Phone App—Applications of Local Knowledge	Vital Signs Online World Grain Production Down in 2010 but Recovering Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Grow Organic Agriculture Sustained Through Economic Crisis Fish Production from Aquaculture Rises While Marine Fish Stocks Continue to Decline Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Grow Fertilizer Consumption Declines Sharply Grain Production Strong But Fails to Set Record Cocoa Production Continues Growth
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Current Projects Nourishing the Planet Evaluating environmentally sustainable solutions to reduce global hunger and rural poverty MORE	Latest Published Research Youth Go for Gold in Sustainability The Winter Youth Olympic Games kick off today. Let's applaud these youth-led sustainable agriculture initiatives. MORE Going Green: 12 Simple Steps for 2012 12 Resolutions that you can take to go green in the new year. MORE
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Worldwatch Blogs Offering Gratitude To Get Some Extra ZZZs Uncle Sam Says Garden…and Eat Vitamin Donuts What’s In Your Go Bag? Did the Suburbs Eat My Community? CDC Is Hungry for Braaaainsss Lord of Recycling: An Eco-parody Oil Discovered on the Island of Catan Bikes, E-Waste, Petlessness! Oh My! Reflections from Portland	Vital Signs Online High-Speed Rail Networks Expand World Labor Force Growing at Divergent Rates Tropical Forests Push Payments for Ecosystem Services onto the Global Stage Global Output Stagnant World Population Growth Slows Modestly, Still on Track for 7 Billion in Late 2011 Unemployment and Precarious Employment Grow More Prominent Materials Use Up Educational Attainment Worldwide on the Rise
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Current Projects Transforming Cultures Like a tsunami, consumerism has engulfed human cultures and Earth’s ecosystems. MORE Green Economy Solutions for global environmental and economic crises MORE	Latest Published Research World Labor Force Growing at Divergent Rates The rising size of the global workforce presents an opportunity to drive economic expansion and increase GDP, but it also presents many challenges. MORE The World at 7 Billion Robert Engelman examines the response to staggering population growth. MORE
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Exploring the influence of population change on the world's climate and environment, and the ways that access to family planning and improving women’s lives can slow population growth.

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Exploring policies that encourage investments in rail and transit manufacturing.

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Examining how we can shift today's consumer cultures to cultures of sustainability.

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Offering solutions that enhance human wellbeing and reduce inequities while protecting the planet, and acknowledging that the global environmental and economic crises have common origins and must be tackled together.

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Highlighting the innovative ways that urban gardeners and livestock keepers in cities from Accra to Rio are finding to feed their communities, as more of humanity lives in cities than rural areas for the first time in history.

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Raising awareness of the food and agricultural community's important role in stabilizing the world's climate, including by eating to reduce our "foodprint" and using farming methods that create "carbon sinks.

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