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Researchers ·Gary Gardner ·Lisa Mastny

Worldwatch Papers

Sustainable Development for the Second World: Ukraine and the Nations in Transition - WWP #167
Purchasing Power: Harnessing Institutional Procurement for People and the Planet - WWP #166
Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World - WWP #164
Traveling Light: New Paths for International Tourism - WWP #159
Why Poison Ourselves? A Precautionary Approach to Synthetic Chemicals - WWP #153
Underfed and Overfed: The Global Epidemic of Malnutrition - WWP #150
Paper Cuts: Recovering the Paper Landscape - WWP #149
Mind Over Matter: Recasting the Role of Materials in Our Lives - WWP #144
A Building Revolution: How Ecology and Health Concerns Are Transforming Construction - WWP #124
The Next Efficiency Revolution: Creating a Sustainable Materials Economy - WWP #121
Global Network: Computers in a Sustainable Society - WWP #115
Discarding the Throwaway Society - WWP #101
Alternatives to the Automobile: Transport for Livable Cities - WWP #98
The Bicycle: Vehicle for a Small Planet - WWP #90
Rethinking the Role of the Automobile - WWP #84
Banishing Tobacco - WWP #68
Productivity: The New Economic Context - WWP #49
Global Housing Prospects: The Resource Constraints - WWP #46
Energy and Architecture: The Solar and Conservation Potential - WWP #40
Cutting Tobacco's Toll - WWP #18

Worldwatch Books

How Much is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth

State of the World Chapters

Engaging Religion in the Quest for a Sustainable World - State of the World 2003
Redirecting International Tourism - State of the World 2002
Controlling International Environmental Crime - State of the World 2001
Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed - State of the World 2000
Recovering the Paper Landscape - State of the World 2000
Harnessing Information Technologies for the Environment - State of the World 2000

Press Releases

World Watch Magazine: January/ February 2004 - December 18, 2003
Post-Communist Nations: Growing Again--But Hardly Greening - September 18, 2003
Selected Green Purchasing Resources - July 25, 2003
World's Biggest Consumers Hold New Hope For Environment - July 24, 2003
Tips to Help Institutions Green Their Purchases - July 21, 2003
World Tourism Shaky - July 16, 2003
Organic Chocolate can help save the rainforest - February 11, 2003
A Little Religion Gives Environmentalism New Fervor - December 19, 2002
Give Responsibly This Holiday Season - December 11, 2002
Globetrotting Food Will Travel Farther Than Ever This Thanksgiving - November 21, 2002
Organic Foods' New Day - October 29, 2002
Fact Sheet: New Organic Standards to Hit U.S. Shelves on October 21, 2002 - October 09, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Mining Less in a Sustainable World - August 06, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Reducing the Use of Toxic Chemicals Advances Health and Sustainable Development - June 25, 2002
Ethical Coffee: Powerful Concoction to Save Forests? - May 01, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: New Paths for International Tourism - March 19, 2002
Tourism, Terrorism, and Tomorrow - December 13, 2001
Traveling Light: New Paths for International Tourism - December 10, 2001
The Bioterror in you Burger - November 06, 2001
Eat Chocolate and Save the Atlantic Rainforest - October 31, 2001
Chronic Hunger and Obesity Epidemic Eroding Global Progress - March 04, 2000
Chronic Hunger and Obesity Epidemic Eroding Global Progress - February 04, 2000
From Grassroots to Boardrooms: Slashing Raw Material Use to Increase Profits and Protect the Environment - December 17, 1998
Cities Turning to Bicycles to Cut Costs, Pollution, and Crime - August 26, 1998
United States Leads World Meat Stampede - July 02, 1998
Accelerating Demand for Land Wood, and Paper Pushing World's Forests to the Brink - April 04, 1998
Environmentally Destructive Subsidies Cost World's Taxpayers and Consumers More Than $500 Billion a Year - December 05, 1996

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World Watch Magazine Articles

The Hidden Shame in the Global Industrial Economy - January/ February 2004
What is Sustainability Anyway? - September/ October 2003
Environmental Travails in the Post-Communist World - July/ August 2003
Factory Farming in the Developing World - May/ June 2003
The Argument for Local Food - May/ June 2003
A Win-win-win-win Industry for the Tropics - May/ June 2002
The Caves of Belize: Explorations on the Edge of Ecotourism - September/ October 2001
Organic Gold Rush - May/ June 2001
The Virtue of Restraint - March/ April 2001
Escaping Hunger, Escaping Excess - July/ August 2000
Watching vs. Taking - May/ June 2000
Why Share? - July/ August 1999
Why Are We Not Astonished? - May/ June 1999
Crossing the Threshold: Early Signs of an Environmental Awakening - March/ April 1999
When Cities Take Bicycles Seriously - September/ October 1998
Paper Forests - March/ April 1998
The Story of a Shoe - March/ April 1998
Putting a Value on Nature's "Free" Services - January/ February 1998
Power of Choice - September/ October 1997
The Nicotine Cartel - July/ August 1997
The Six Floods - November/ December 1996
A Refrigerator Revolution - September/ October 1996
Good Wood - September/ October 1996
A Billion Cars: The Road Ahead - January/ February 1996
The Biogas Solution - November/ December 1995
The Sudden New Strength of Recycling - July/ August 1995
Plundering The Boreal Forests - May/ June 1995
Our Buildings, Ourselves - November/ December 1994
The Story of a Newspaper - November/ December 1994
The New Materialism: A Matter of Policy - September/ October 1994
Toxic Green: The Trouble With Golf - May/ June 1994
Spreading the Net - January/ February 1994
Packaging A Revolution - September/ October 1993
Jump Start: The New Automotive Revolution - July/ August 1993
Can't Live Without It - May/ June 1993
For the Love of Gold - May/ June 1993
Los Angeles 21, New York 5... - March/ April 1993
Breaking Away - January/ February 1993
Whitewash: Pursuing the Truth About Paper - September/ October 1992
Trouble Brewing - July/ August 1991
Fat of the Land - May/ June 1991
Tossing the Throwaway Habit - May/ June 1991
How Much Is "Enough"? - November/ December 1990
Pedal-Powered Development - January/ February 1990
Doing Well by Doing Good - November/ December 1989
Car Sick - November/ December 1988
Unhealthy Alliance - September/ October 1988
Building a Market for Recyclables - May/ June 1988
Setting Our Houses in Order - May/ June 1988
Smoking Epidemic Widens - January/ February 1988