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State of the World PDF Downloads
- State of the World 2003
- State of the World 2002
- State of the World 2001
- State of the World 2000
- State of the World 1999
- State of the World 1998
Vital Signs PDF Downloads
REN21 - Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
- RENEWABLES 2005 - GLOBAL STATUS REPORT
- ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT - The Potential Role of Renewable Energy in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
Worldwatch Papers PDF Downloads
- Worldwatch Paper #169: Mainstreaming Renewable Energy in the 21st Century
- Worldwatch Paper #168: Venture Capitalism for a Tropical Forest: Cocoa in the Mata Atlantica
- Worldwatch Paper #167: Sustainable Development for the Second World: Ukraine and the Nations in Transition
- Worldwatch Paper #166: Purchasing Power: Harnessing Institutional Procurement for People and the Planet
- Worldwatch Paper #165: Winged Messengers: The Decline of Birds
- Worldwatch Paper #164: Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World
- Worldwatch Paper #163: Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global Market
- Worldwatch Paper #162: The Anatomy of Resource Wars
- Worldwatch Paper #161: Correcting Gender Myopia: Gender Equity, Women's Welfare, And The Environment
- Worldwatch Paper #160: Reading the Weathervane: Climate Policy from Rio To Johannesburg
- Worldwatch Paper #159: Traveling Light: New Paths for International Tourism
- Worldwatch Paper #158: Unnatural Disasters
- Worldwatch Paper #157: Hydrogen Futures: Toward a Sustainable Energy System
- Worldwatch Paper #156: City Limits: Putting the Brakes on Sprawl
- Worldwatch Paper #155: Still Waiting for the Jubilee: Pragmatic Solutions for the Third World Debt Crisis
- Worldwatch Paper #154: Deep Trouble: The Hidden Threat of Groundwater Pollution
- Worldwatch Paper #153: Why Poison Ourselves? A Precautionary Approach to Synthetic Chemicals
- Worldwatch Paper #152: Working for the Environment: A Growing Source of Jobs
- Worldwatch Paper #151: Micropower: The Next Electrical Era
- Worldwatch Paper #150: Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition
- Worldwatch Paper #149: Paper Cuts: Recovering the Paper Landscape
- Worldwatch Paper #148: Nature's Cornucopia: Our Stake in Plant Diversity
- Worldwatch Paper #147: Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet
- Worldwatch Paper #146: Ending Violent Conflict
- Worldwatch Paper #145: Safeguarding the Health of Oceans
- Worldwatch Paper #144: Mind Over Matter: Recasting the Role of Materials in Our Lives
- Worldwatch Paper #143: Beyond Malthus: Sixteen Dimensions of the Population Problem
- Worldwatch Paper #142: Rocking the Boat: Conserving Fisheries and Protecting Jobs
- Worldwatch Paper #141: Losing Strands in the Web of Life: Vertebrate Declines and the Conservation of Biological Diversity
- Worldwatch Paper #139: Investing in the Future: Harnessing Private Capital Flows for Environmentally Sustainable Development
- Worldwatch Paper #137: Small Arms, Big Impact: The Next Challenge of Disarmament
- Worldwatch Paper #136: The Agricultural Link: How Environmental Deterioration Could Disrupt Economic Progress
- Worldwatch Paper #1: The Other Energy Crisis: Firewood
Worldwatch Books PDF Downloads
- Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization
- Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
Good Stuff? PDF Downloads
- Good Stuff? - Tourism
- Good Stuff? - Seafood
- Good Stuff? - Local Food
- Good Stuff? - Dry Cleaning
- Good Stuff? - Bicycles
- Good Stuff? - A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Things We Buy
- Good Stuff? - Soap
- Good Stuff? - Shrimp
- Good Stuff? - Plastic Bags
- Good Stuff? - Personal Care
- Good Stuff? - Paper
- Good Stuff? - Paint & Varnishes
- Good Stuff? - Meat
- Good Stuff? - Lighting
- Good Stuff? - Housing
- Good Stuff? - Health Care
- Good Stuff? - Gold Jewelry
- Good Stuff? - Furniture
- Good Stuff? - Fast Food
- Good Stuff? - Electricity
- Good Stuff? - Computers
- Good Stuff? - Coffee
- Good Stuff? - Clothing
- Good Stuff? - Cleaning Products
- Good Stuff? - Chocolate
- Good Stuff? - Cell Phones
- Good Stuff? - CDs and DVDs
- Good Stuff? - Cars
- Good Stuff? - Beverages
- Good Stuff? - Baby Products
- Good Stuff? - Appliances
World Watch Magazine PDF Downloads
2005
- Life-Cycle Studies
- The Role Of Stakeholders
- Diesels Versus Hybrids
- Editorial: Live Fat, Die Young: The Upside
- Solar Power, Lakota Empowerment
- Buy Now, and Save!
- Worldwatch First-Person: Sri Lanka, After the Deluge
- Farming's New Feudalism
- The Shape of Forests to Come
- When Good Corporations Go Bad
- Nam Theun 2
- The Irony of Climate
- California Drives the Future of the Automobile
- Trespass: Genetic Engineering as the Final Conquest
- Readers' Responses to "A Challenge to Conservationists"
- A New Paradigm for Human Security
- Note from a Worldwatcher
2004
- A Challenge to Conservationists
- Biodiversity on the U.S.-Mexican Border
- Sanctuary for Nature and the Dead
- The Hazards of Youth
- Not Tonight, Sweetie; No Energy
- Population, Family Planning, and the Future of Africa
- Population,Migration,and Globalization
- Low Fertility and Sustainability
- The Population Story... So Far
- Global Population Reduction: Confronting the Inevitable
- World Population, Agriculture, and Malnutrition
- Definitely Probably One
- Harmonizing Population and Coastal Resources in the Philippines
- The Economic Conundrum of an Aging Population
- Editors' Introduction
- The Positive Side of the Older Populations To Come
- Water and Peace
- Is Meat Sustainable?
- Silent Winter?
- Interview: Don't Get Mad, Get Elected! A conversation with Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai
- The Greening of Kenya
- War on Bosnia
- Sorry, Ladies, But You Have No Choice
- The Hidden Shame in the Global Industrial Economy
- ChevronTexaco on Trial
2003
- Rocket Fuel in our Food
- Messing with the Mekong
- What is Sustainability Anyway?
- Feedlots of the Sea
- This Old Barn, This New Money
- Environmental Travails in the Post-Communist World
- The Argument for Local Food
- Factory Farming in the Developing World
- Long-Range Forecast
- Mapping Diversity
- AIDS in the Military
- Appropriating the Water
- Laced With Arsenic
- Oil & Blood
- The Growing Value of Gardens
2002
- Rogue Corn On the Loose
- Squatter Cities And Slums
- Crimes of (A) Global Nature
- Remember Rwanda?
- Beyond Cloning (Part 2)
- Beyond Cloning (Part 1)
- Malaria, Mosquitoes, and DDT
- Journey to Johannesburg
- The Plight of Birds
- Media Sheep
- Short-circuiting the Global Phosphorus Cycle
- The Fight for Siberia
- What Will it Take to Halt Sprawl?
- Dust in the Wind
- Exportable Righteousness, Expendable Women
2001
- Chocolate Could Bring the Forest Back
- The Restoration of a Hotspot Begins
- The Energy We Overlook
- How Economists Have Misjudged Global Warming
- The Caves of Belize: Explorations on the Edge of Ecotourism
- Biotech, African Corn, & the Vampire Weed
- Can They Coexist?
- U.S. Environmental Policy: Where is it Headed? / Dim Vision
- Last Words: The Dying of Languages
- Indonesia's Coral Reefs on the Line
- Organic Gold Rush
- Homogenized Planet
- The Virtue of Restraint
- Toxic Fertility
- AIDS Has Arrived in India and China
- Liberating the Rivers
- Going to Work for Wind Power
2000
- The Oceans Are Coming Ashore
- The Hydrogen Experiment
- A Return to the Local: You Stay Home Too (the case for a local economy)
- Where Have All the Farmers Gone?
- Amphibia Fading
- Escaping Hunger, Escaping Excess
- The Biodiversity That People Made
- Watching vs. Taking
- Earth Day 2000: What Humanity Can Do Now to Turn the Tide
- POPs Culture
- Gaining Perspective
- Groundwater Shock: The Polluting of the World's Major Freshwater Stores
- Coming to Terms with the Arctic
1999
- Action on the Front Lines
- Fighting Pollution in Viet Nam
- Challenging the WTO
- Breaking Out or Breaking Down
- King Coal's Weakening Grip on Power
- When the World's Wells Run Dry
- The Emperor's New Crops
- Why Share?
- Unnatural Disasters
- The Nemesis Effect
- The Politics of Life and Death
- Why Are We Not Astonished?
- Crossing the Threshold: Early Signs of an Environmental Awakening
- Bull Market in Wind Energy
- Virtual Ecology: A Brief Environmental History of Silicon Valley
- Crawling Out of the Pipe: The hazardous waste that makes more of itself
1998
- Can the North and South Get in Step?
- Last Tango in Buenos Aires
- Bogging Down in the Sinks
- Green Awakening In a Poor Country
- Solar Power Markets Boom
- When Cities Take Bicycles Seriously
- How Mid-Sized Cities Can Avoid Strangulation
- China's Water Shortage Could Shake World Food Security
- What Does India Want?
- An Epidemic of Guns
- The Other Side of the World
- Indonesia's Discontent
- Taking the University to Task
- The Story of a Shoe
- Paper Forests
- Blue Revolution: The Promises and Pitfalls of Fish Farming
- Before the Next Doubling
- Recycling Human Waste: Fertile Ground or Toxic Legacy?
- Putting a Value on Nature's "Free" Services

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