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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
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State of the World
2003
Redirecting International Tourism
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State of the World
2002
Controlling International Environmental Crime
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State of the World
2001
Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed
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State of the World
2000
Recovering the Paper Landscape
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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
Links
Consumer's Choice Council
Coop America's Green Pages Online
European Green Purchasing Network
Fair Trade Resource Network
Forest Stewardship Council
ICLEI's European Eco-Procurement Initiative
Marine Stewardship Council
Social Investment Forum
US EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Site
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
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