Worldwatch Institute Staff

Biography

Tom Prugh, Editor

Phone: +1 (202) 452-1992

Tom Prugh is editor of World Watch magazine and co-director of Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2008. After completing his education at The American University in Washington, D.C., Tom worked in corrections, drug and alcohol treatment and education, public relations, and publications management. Before joining the Institute in 2002, he served as an editor and task manager at the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy.

As an environment and energy writer, Tom has covered acid rain, groundwater contamination, the U.S. corporate average fuel economy standards, solid and hazardous wastes, pesticides, deforestation, stratospheric ozone depletion, ecological economics, and sustainability. His work has appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Monthly Energy Review, The Electricity Journal, The Environmental Almanac, Yes!, the Los Angeles Times, and Ecologia Politica, and he is the lead author of two books: The Local Politics of Global Sustainability (with Robert Costanza and Herman Daly; Island Press, 2000) and Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival (with Robert Costanza, John H. Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard B. Norgaard; 2nd edition, Lewis Publishers, 1999).

Selected Publications