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The evidence continues to mount: melting ice caps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequent natural disasters. As the devastating effects of global warming come into sharper focus, societies must work to both mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to ongoing and inevitable climate change. The actions taken in the coming century will be critically important in determining whether or not we can salvage our environment. We cannot shrink from the overwhelming magnitude of climate change or the radical solutions it demands. The Worldwatch Institute's
State of the World 2009investigates a wide range of potential paths to change, including new technology, policy changes, consumption, and finance, with the ultimate goal of mobilizing humanity around climate change and revealing global warming as one of the truly great challenges of our time.
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"Top-ranked annual books on sustainable development." GlobeScan survey of sustainable experts
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The evidence continues to mount: melting ice caps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequent natural disasters. As the devastating effects of global warming come into sharper focus, societies must work to both mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to ongoing and inevitable climate change. The actions taken in the coming century will be critically important in determining whether or not we can salvage our environment. We cannot shrink from the overwhelming magnitude of climate change or the radical solutions it demands. The Worldwatch Institute's investigates a wide range of potential paths to change, including new technology, policy changes, consumption, and finance, with the ultimate goal of mobilizing humanity around climate change and revealing global warming as one of the truly great challenges of our time.
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A comprehensive guide to global warming and the steps we must take to combat it.
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The premier environmental nonprofit shows the ways to transform our consumer culture into a culture centered on sustainability.
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The evidence continues to mount: melting icecaps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequentnaturaldisasters. As the devastating effects ofglobal warming come into sharper focus, societies must work toboth mitigate greenhousegasemissions and adapt to ongoing and inevitable climate change. Theactions taken inthe comingcentury will be critically importantin determining whether or not we can salvage ourenvironment. We cannot shrinkfrom theoverwhelming magnitude of climate change or the radical solutions it demands. The WorldwatchInstitute's State of theWorld 2009investigates a wide range of potential paths tochange, including new technology, policy changes, consumption, and finance, with theultimate goal of mobilizing humanityaroundclimate change andrevealing global warming asone of the truly great challenges of ourtime.
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For society to thrive long into the future, we must move beyond our unsustainable consumer culture to one that respects environmental realities. In State of the World 2010, the Worldwatch Institute"s award-winning research team reveals not only how human societies can make this shift but also how people around the world have already started to nurture a new culture of sustainability. Chapters present innovative solutions to global environmental problems, focusing on institutions that are the principal engineers of culture, such as governments, the media, and religious organizations. Written in clear, concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the Worldpresents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore.
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'Growing evidence suggests that the global economy, rooted in ideas and assumptions that were progressive two hundred years ago, is now destroying its own ecological base and offering little to billions of impoverished people. In response, pioneers are creating the architecture of sustainable economies, one innovation at a time. State of the World 2008describes these innovations\'\"from microfinance to closed-loop manufacturing and the use of trusts to protect common resources\'\"as well as identifying the obstacles that prevent a critical mass of people and organizations from moving toward sustainability, and rallying coalitions of stakeholders that can produce win-win solutions and strategies for achieving specific sustainability goals.'
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The Worldwatch Instituteis a Washington, DC-based nonprofit research and publishing organization dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society.