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Employment in environmentally sustainable industries is spreading worldwide - from Texas to Germany to Kenya.
If any single event put climate change on the world's policy radar, it was the Senate testimony of NASA scientist James Hansen on June 23, 1988. On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of that event, World Watch's Ben Block talked with Hansen about its impact.
The European Union is struggling to satisfy many of its major
The European Union is struggling to satisfy many of its major
environmental goals.
U.S. President George W. Bush urged Congress to commit $2 billion toward his proposed international clean energy technology fund at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC).
On Tuesday, the European Union formalized
its pledge to participate in the Methane
to Markets Partnership, the world’s largest exchange of methane-based
energy resources.
It finally happened this week. The price of oil passed the all-time
inflation-adjusted peak of $103.76 that was set in April 1980. What’s going on?
The International Whaling Commission’s 78 members are
meeting in London
next month in an effort to reach agreement on whale conservation rules. Meanwhile,
The International Whaling Commission’s 78 members are
meeting in London next month in an effort to reach agreement on whale conservation rules. Meanwhile, global whale hunting continues to increase.
At the behest of its member governments, the United Nations
keeps taking on new and increasingly complex peacekeeping challenges, including
The United Nations
keeps taking on new and increasingly complex peacekeeping challenges, but
U.N. missions today don’t just involve monitoring of
ceasefire lines. And peacekeeping suffers from major problems, starting with
money.
A few years ago, a
homeowner in Las Vegas—a place that gets maybe five inches of rainfall a
year—was confronted by a water district inspector for running an illegal
Ideas about how the
world works that don’t accord with reality can be unhelpful. That’s especially
true about mainstream economics.
But in recent
decades, economics theoreticians and researchers have suggested a variety of
reforms that would make economics truer, greener, and more sustainable.
