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Worldwatch Papers

Still Waiting for the Jubilee: Pragmatic Solutions for the Third World Debt Crisis - WWP #155
Investing in the Future: Harnessing Private Capital Flows for Environmentally Sustainable Development - WWP #139
Eco-Justice: Linking Human Rights and the Environment - WWP #127
Partnership for the Planet: An Environmental Agenda for the United Nations - WWP #126
Costly Tradeoffs: Reconciling Trade and the Environment - WWP #113
After the Earth Summit: The Future of Environmental Governance - WWP #107
Green Revolutions: Environmental Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union - WWP #99
Apartheid's Environmental Toll - WWP #95
Clearing the Air: A Global Agenda - WWP #94
Action at the Grassroots: Fighting Poverty and Environmental Decline - WWP #88
The Changing Role of the Market in National Economies - WWP #72
The Dispossessed of the Earth: Land reform and Sustainable Development - WWP #30
The Global Economic Prospect: New Sources of Economic Stress - WWP #20
Local Responses to Global Problems: A Key to Meeting Basic Human Needs - WWP #17

Worldwatch Books

Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization

State of the World Chapters

The Challenge for Johannesburg: Creating a More Secure World - State of the World 2002
Reshaping Global Governance - State of the World 2002
Rich Planet, Poor Planet - State of the World 2001
Ending the Debt Crisis - State of the World 2001
Controlling International Environmental Crime - State of the World 2001
Harnessing Information Technologies for the Environment - State of the World 2000
Coping with Ecological Globalization - State of the World 2000

Press Releases

World Watch Magazine: May/ June 2004 - April 19, 2004
World Watch Magazine: January/ February 2004 - December 18, 2003
A Little Religion Gives Environmentalism New Fervor - December 19, 2002
Canada to Vote on Kyoto Ratification as Early as Monday - December 09, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond: Assessing the Summit - October 22, 2002
World Summit Post-Mortem - September 03, 2002
International Environmental Crime Shouldn't Pay - August 30, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Urban Governance - Thinking Globally, Acting Locally - August 29, 2002
Christopher Flavin Answers Questions on the World Summit - August 27, 2002
World Summit Resources Now Available - August 22, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Renewable Energy for the 21st Century - August 20, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Mining Less in a Sustainable World - August 06, 2002
Global War on Global Warming Heats Up - August 01, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Securing Water for People, Crops, and Ecosystems - July 16, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Reducing the Use of Toxic Chemicals Advances Health and Sustainable Development - June 25, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Ecological Farming - Reducing Hunger and Meeting Environmental Goals - June 11, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Healthy Oceans Key to Fighting Poverty - May 21, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: What's Good for Women is Good for the World - April 30, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Too Much Talk, Too Little Action on Forests - April 16, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: New Paths for International Tourism - March 19, 2002
From Rio to Johannesburg: Growing Awareness, Sluggish Response - February 28, 2002
Traveling Light: New Paths for International Tourism - December 10, 2001
Worldwatch Institute Points to Third Way on Third World Debt, Calls Bush Proposals a Useful Starting Point - July 17, 2001
"Forgive and Forget" Won't Fix Third World Debt - April 26, 2001
The World can't Wait for Another Climate Treaty - March 28, 2001
We Need a New Kind of Revolution, Says Gorbachev - February 20, 2001
Globalization Straining Planet's Health - March 25, 2000
"Earth Day Report Card" - March 01, 2000
"Information Economy Boom Obscuring Earth's Decline" - January 15, 2000
Environmental Trade Skirmishes Demonstrate Need for WTO Reform - November 02, 1999
WTO Confrontation Shows Growing Power of Activist Groups - October 27, 1999
Mbeki's Challenge: The HIV Epidemic Consuming South Africa - June 07, 1999
Turning the Tide to Save Oceans: Citizens and Governments Build New Alliances - March 20, 1999
World May be on Edge of Environmental Revolution - February 25, 1999
Eradicating Polio: A Model for International Cooperation - January 25, 1999
Buenos Aires Post-Mortem - November 18, 1998
Climate Protocol Survives -- Barely - November 13, 1998
Kyoto Protocol Faces Crucial Test in Buenos Aires - October 20, 1998
Indonesia's Discontent - May 16, 1998
Future of Global Environment Hinges on Surging Flows of Private Capital - February 28, 1998
Governments Failing to Protect Societies from Spreading Water Scarcity - June 03, 1997
Massive International Flows of Private Capital now Shaping World Environmental Future - April 23, 1997
Facing Reality at the World Food Summit - November 01, 1996
China's Claims on Earth's Resources Overtaking Those of the United States - August 28, 1996
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE URGES WORLD BANK AND FAO TO OVERHAUL MISLEADING FOOD SUPPLY PROJECTIONS - May 01, 1996
WORLDWIDE REPRESSION OF PEACEFUL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTESTORS SPURS NEW COALITIONS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS - December 09, 1995
Apartheid Devastating South African Environment - May 12, 1990
Global Poverty Up, A Result of Debt and Environmental Decline - November 18, 1989

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World Watch Magazine Articles

A Challenge to Conservationists - November/ December 2004
Biodiversity on the U.S.-Mexican Border - November/ December 2004
Population,Migration,and Globalization - September/ October 2004
The Greening of Kenya - May/ June 2004
Interview: Don't Get Mad, Get Elected! A conversation with Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai - May/ June 2004
ChevronTexaco on Trial - January/ February 2004
Messing with the Mekong - November/ December 2003
AIDS in the Military - March/ April 2003
Crimes of (A) Global Nature - September/ October 2002
Journey to Johannesburg - May/ June 2002
The Fight for Siberia - March/ April 2002
U.S. Environmental Policy: Where is it Headed? / Dim Vision - July/ August 2001
Can They Coexist? - July/ August 2001
Homogenized Planet - March/ April 2001
Where Have All the Farmers Gone? - September/ October 2000
Earth Day 2000: What Humanity Can Do Now to Turn the Tide - March/ April 2000
Coming to Terms with the Arctic - January/ February 2000
Action on the Front Lines - November/ December 1999
Challenging the WTO - November/ December 1999
Fighting Pollution in Viet Nam - November/ December 1999
The Politics of Life and Death - May/ June 1999
Can the North and South Get in Step? - November/ December 1998
Green Awakening In a Poor Country - September/ October 1998
What Does India Want? - July/ August 1998
The Other Side of the World - May/ June 1998
Taking the University to Task - May/ June 1998
Indonesia's Discontent - May/ June 1998
Banking Against Warming - November/ December 1997
Privatizing International Development - May/ June 1997
Riding the Dragon - March/ April 1997
China's Challenge to the United States and to the Earth - September/ October 1996
The Shadow Economy - July/ August 1996
Dying for Oil - May/ June 1996
Where We Will Live - May/ June 1996
Islands On The Edge - November/ December 1995
A Mountain Agenda - September/ October 1995
Getting Warmer - March/ April 1995
The World Bank: Now Fifty, But How Fit? - July/ August 1994
Power Move: The Nuclear Salesman Target the Third World - March/ April 1994
GATT: Global Menace or Ally? - September/ October 1993
Will Clinton Give Industry a Green Edge? - January/ February 1993
Can Wildlife Traffic Be Stopped? - September/ October 1992
A Force For Peace - July/ August 1992
From Discord to Accord - May/ June 1992
Lost in the Shadow Economy - March/ April 1992
Environmental Studies - January/ February 1992
The E.C.: Environmental Proving Ground - November/ December 1991
Eastern Europe's Clean Break - March/ April 1991
A New Lay of the Land - January/ February 1991
Preparing for Peace - September/ October 1990
A Most Deadly Trade - July/ August 1990
Last Road to Shangri-La - July/ August 1990
Apartheid's Other Injustice - May/ June 1990
Earth Day 2030 - March/ April 1990
Life on the Brink - March/ April 1990
Europe's Green Tide - January/ February 1990
Groundswell at the Grass Roots - November/ December 1989
The Greening of the Soviet Union - May/ June 1989
No Time to Waste - January/ February 1989
Mending the Earth's Shield - January/ February 1989
Industrial Wasteland - November/ December 1988
Restoring the U.N. - July/ August 1988