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	The Great Warming - Call To Action - Worldwatch Institute
		The Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.
		Worldwatch entered the 21st century with a new President and a strengthened staff and Board of Directors—along with a new commitment to providing the information and ideas needed to foster a sustainable world.
		Gary Gardner is director of research at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC.
	www.thegreatwarming.com /calltoaction/ally-wwi.html (496 words)

	The Sopris Foundation
		The Worldwatch Institute monitors and evaluates changes in climate, forest cover, population, food production, water resources and biological diversity and analyzes the most effective strategies for achieving a sustainable society.
		The Worldwatch Institute's goal is to provide policymakers, educators and others with the information they need to make decisions that will lead to a sustainable economy.
		The Worldwatch Institute works towards the evolution of an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations.
	www.soprisfoundation.org /worldwatch.htm (174 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| Rising death rates slow population growth
		Researchers at the Worldwatch Institute say rising death rates are slowing world population growth for the first time since famine in China claimed 30 million lives in 1959-61.
		The institute, based in Washington DC, says the latest UN estimate is that there will be 8.9 billion people in the world in 2050, not the 9.4 bn predicted earlier.
		Worldwatch says one of the key ways to help slow population growth is to provide more help for reproductive health and family planning.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/315229.stm (523 words)

	What's Good for Women is Good for the World
		The Worldwatch Institute is pleased to send you the fourth in our series of World Summit Policy Briefs, From Rio to Johannesburg: What's Good for Women is Good for the World, by Staff Researcher, Danielle Nierenberg.
		The Worldwatch Institute is a non-profit independent environmental research organization, which has educated the public and policymakers about important global environmental and development issues for more than 20 years.
		Worldwatch News is maintained by the Worldwatch Institute for subscribers interested in keeping up-to-date on global environmental issues.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /May/worldwatch4.htm (1666 words)

	Worldwatch Institute seeks Web Manager/Developer - Drupal guru desired! (Updated) \| drupal.org
		The Worldwatch Institute is an independent, non-profit research organization that focuses on innovative solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.
		Worldwatch is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Web Manager to manage all of the Institute web activities and help us reach millions of users with vital information.
		The Institute’s annual State of the World report has been published in 36 languages and is read by audiences ranging from government officials and corporate executives to educators and the general public.
	drupal.org /node/118324 (589 words)

	WorldWatch Institute's Vital Signs 1999 Released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Worldwatch Institute's annual eclectic compilation of facts and figures, "Vital Signs 1999," offers a little something for everyone making predictions about where the planet and its inhabitants are headed in the next century.
		An assessment by Worldwatch president Lester Brown in the report released Saturday is that the latest data underscore big problems, with the average global temperature, weather-related damage and people displaced by storms all going "off the charts."
		Worldwatch, a nongovernment research group funded by grants and sales of its publications, has been compiling "Vital Signs" for eight years and adds new categories each year.
	home.earthlink.net /~mjohnsen/Environment/Worldwatch99.html (569 words)

	Fishy Business at the Worldwatch Institute - by John P. Wise - The Heartland Institute
		The Worldwatch Institute, founded in 1974, is one of the country's best-known environmental groups.
		The Worldwatch Institute commands national attention, but a closer look at its publications suggests that what respect it has may be undeserved.
		Here the Institute reported that the coastal population in the Philippines is growing faster than the rest of the country, in part because people who gave up farming were seeking access to fishing grounds where they could hope to make a living.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=626 (715 words)

	Worldwatch Institute
		While previous struggles have involved protecting ecosystems and human societies from the unpredicted consequences of new technologies, this fight over high-risk applications of human genetic engineering is a struggle over who will decide what it means to be human.
		About the Worldwatch Institute: The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations.
		Worldwatch focuses on the underlying causes of and practical solutions to the world's problems, in order to inspire people to demand new policies, investment patterns, and lifestyle choices.
	www.commondreams.org /news2002/0701-10.htm (1003 words)

	Sounding Circle: Worldwatch Institute Symposium
		The Worldwatch Institute and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) will be presenting our second annual symposium, The Challenge of Sustainable Development, on March 7 and 8 at UCSB.
		Worldwatch President Christopher Flavin and Senior Researchers Hilary French and Molly O Meara Sheehan will participate in lectures and panels that explore the environmental challenges of the 21st century, and present solutions for achieving an ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just future.
		Worldwatch focuses on the underlying causes of and practical solutions to the world s problems, in order to inspire people to demand new policies, investment patterns, and lifestyle choices.
	soundingcircle.com /newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000016.htm (427 words)

	News \| Worldwatch Institute
		The growth of factory farms, their proximity to congested cities in the developing world, and the globalized poultry trade are all culprits behind the spread of avian flu, while livestock wastes damage the climate at a rate that surpasses emissions from cars and SUVs.
		These preliminary findings on avian flu and meat production, from the upcoming Worldwatch Institute report Vital Signs 2007–2008, were released today by research associate Danielle Nierenberg at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco.
		Washington, D.C.—Even as state and local politicians strategize on how to diversify the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels, more than 150 new coal-fired power plants are being built across the country, according to Susan Moran, author of “Coal Rush” in the January/February 2007 issue of World Watch magazine.
	www.worldwatch.org /taxonomy/term/70 (687 words)

	NSDL Metadata Record -- Worldwatch Institute Homepage
		Worldwatch's work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society - and how to achieve it.
		All rights are reserved by Worldwatch Institute, and the content may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of Worldwatch Institute or as indicated below.
		WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE, WORLD WATCH, STATE OF THE WORLD, and VITAL SIGNS are registered service marks of Worldwatch Institute.
	nsdl.org /mr/455129 (221 words)

	Worldwatch watch - Worldwatch Institute's policy is harmful to human welfare National Review - Find Articles
		Worldwatch watch - Worldwatch Institute's policy is harmful to human welfare
		THE Worldwatch Institute exists, in its own words, to "save the planet," a miracle it is accomplishing by raising the public consciousness of the need "to create an environmentally sustainable global economy." The Institute, led by Lester R. Brown, is one of the more influential and reputable of environmentalist policy organizations.
		The Institute approves of mass transit, solar-powered vehicles, and walking, but what it really loves is bicycles, "the most efficient form of transport ever invented." After all, many cities find bikes "more effective than gridlocked squad cars in chasing criminals." Tanzania uses them to deliver mail, and Malawi uses bicycle-ambulances.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v46/ai_15318970 (656 words)

	Worldwatch Institute
		Like the great transitions away from wood and coal to petroleum 100 years ago, today's societies will soon begin the move away from fossil fuels and toward a new energy system that is more suited to the economic, security, and environmental needs of the 21st century.
		For more than two decades, Worldwatch has worked to chart a pioneering path to a post-petroleum energy economy.
		Worldwatch research on energy has shown that an energy transition to a solar-hydrogen economy is not only environmentally necessary, but economically logical.
	www.renewableenergyaccess.com /rea/partner?cid=3331 (161 words)

	United Nations: Johannesburg Summit 2002
		Worldwatch - which has issued its State of the World report for the last 19 years - decided to devote this year's volume to preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to take place this August in Johannesburg.
		United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, writing in the foreword to the report, said that the "political and conceptual breakthrough achieved at Rio has not proved decisive enough to break with business as usual." But he added that at Johannesburg, "it is not too late to set the transformation more convincingly in motion."
		But all of the agreements have suffered from serious deficiencies, she said, and as a result, are weak, inadequately enforced, and lacking in funding.
	www.un.org /jsummit/html/whats_new/otherstories_worldwatch_4feb.html (423 words)

	WorldWatch Institute's new publication on the paper industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The increasing demand of paper and paperboard, especially in Northern countries, is one of the direct causes of deforestation and, at the same time, of the expansion of pulpwood plantations -which normally constitute an additional cause of deforestaton- for the obtention of fibre.
		Additionally to the destruction of forests by intensive logging and the social and environmental negative effects of large-scale tree plantations, the industrial process itself produces high levels of air and water pollution.
		Those and other topics are addressed in a recent publication issued by the Worldwatch Institute (Abramovitz, Janet and Mattoon, Ashley.- 'Paper cuts: recovering the paper landscape.' Washington, Worldwatch Institute, December 1999, Worldwatch Paper 149).
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/30/plantations.html (259 words)

	AFH LIBRARY - Why Poison Ourselves? A Precautionary Approach to Synthetic Chemicals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Synthetic chemical pollutants that are poisoning both people and wildlife could be largely eliminated without disrupting the economy, reports a new study by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington DC-based environmental research organization.
		At the very least, funding the research and development of safer alternatives and cleaner manufacturing processes should be an integral part of any plan to reduce our vulnerability to terrorism.
		Anne Platt McGinn is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington DC-based environmental research organization.
	www.alkalizeforhealth.net /Lworldwatchpaper153.htm (2088 words)

	State of the World 2005, Worldwatch Institute
		In this year's annual report, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources.
		We are the guests, not the masters, of nature and must develop a new paradigm for development and conflict resolution, based on the costs and benefits to all peoples and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than by the limits of technology and consumerism.
		I am delighted that the Worldwatch Institute continues to address these important challenges and goals in its annual State of the World report.
	www.rhythmsoftheglobe.com /glnews/stateoftheworld2005.html (1005 words)

	Feminism and Women's Studies: Gender Bias: Roadblock to Sustainable Development
		Text of a report by the WorldWatch Institute (written by Jodi L. Jacobson) that discusses the ways in which gender bias contributes the growth of poverty and population, particularly in subsistence economies.
		A new Worldwatch study points to a surprising reason for the growing impoverishment of many developing nations: discrimination against women, reenforced by conventional strategies of economic development.
		Investing in women is the fastest way to simultaneously increase food security, reduce population growth and relieve pressure on the environment.
	feminism.eserver.org /gender-bias-causes-poverty.txt (1127 words)

	Global Challenges \| Worldwatch Institute Study Shows AIDS Devastation in Africa - Kaisernetwork.org
		The African AIDS epidemic is lowering life expectancy and fertility, increasing mortality, leaving more men alive than women, and producing millions of orphans, according to a Worldwatch Institute analysis.
		Calling some of the life expectancies in Africa "akin to those of the Middle Ages," Institute chair Lester Brown said that AIDS is "not being given the priority it deserves," and noted that without a "medical miracle" nearly all 24 million Africans infected with HIV this year will die.
		In Zimbabwe, AIDS has reduced the projected 2010 life expectancy from 70 to below 35 years, while in South Africa life expectancy will decline from 68 to 48, and in Zambia from 60 to 30.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=770 (211 words)

	Embassy of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The issue is not the adoption of economic measures or marketing strategies, but rather a cultural leap forward as important as the one that led to the acknowledgment of social rights, starting with the popular mobilizations of the 19th century.
		The themes addressed by the reknown group of researchers of the WWI-Worldwatch Institute in State of the World 2002 are those that will be included in the Johannesburg agenda and which are also of concern to Brazilian society.
		The overlapping of environmental awareness and democratic process makes it clear that the state of the world is not restricted to the world of the State, but permeates throughout the entire public sphere, defined as the interlacing of diverse social structures.
	www.brasilemb.org /environment/environ_worldwatch_fhc.shtml (903 words)

	Worldwatch Institute: 16 of World's 20 Most-Polluted Cities in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Worldwatch Institute in Washington says 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China.
		Environmental experts say winds are carrying the pollutants from China's factories to the Koreas, Japan and as far away as the United States.
		Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., says the pollution travels beyond the border of China.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-06-28-voa36.cfm (672 words)

	NEWS FROM THE WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But first, we must all understand that in the end, weapons alone cannot buy us a lasting peace in a world of extreme inequality, injustice, and deprivation for billions of our fellow human beings.
		Michael Renner is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute (mrenner@peconic.net)
		Copyright notice: This article may be copied, used on web sites, or otherwise reproduced without charge providing that the user include the address of the Worldwatch web site (http://www.worldwatch.org) and attribute the article to the Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036.
	www.changemakers.net /library/worldwatchmarshallplan.cfm (917 words)

	Worldwatch Institute: World Summit Policy Breifs
		The Worldwatch Institute is pleased to send you the seventh in our series of World Summit Policy Briefs, From Rio to Johannesburg: Reducing the Use of Toxic Chemicals Advances Health and Sustainable Development, by Senior Researcher Anne Platt McGinn.
		Join Worldwatch researchers Michael Renner and Molly O'Meara Sheehan for a web discussion about the newest Worldwatch release, Vital Signs 2002: The trends that are shaping our future on June 28.
		Worldwaatch News is maintained by the Worldwatch Institute for subscribers interested in keeping up-to-date on global environmental issues.
	www.learn-line.nrw.de /angebote/agenda21/archiv/02/06/wwipb7.htm (1746 words)

	COSMOWORLDS \| Report: Biofuels Poised to Displace Oil - Worldwatch Institute
		Although oil still accounts for more than 96 percent of transport fuel use, biofuel production has doubled since 2001 and is poised for even stronger growth as the industry responds to higher fuel prices and supportive government policies.
		The new report, Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV), is a comprehensive assessment of the opportunities and risks associated with the large-scale international development of biofuels.
		As the first-ever global assessment of the potential social and environmental impacts of biofuels, Biofuels for Transportation warns that the large-scale use of biofuels carries significant agricultural and ecological risks.
	www.cosmoworlds.com /photobase/worldwatch/worldwatch-biofuels_poised_to_displace_oil.htm (1841 words)

	After Years of Doomsday Diatribes, Worldwatch Institute Finally Gets it Right - by Jay Lehr, Ph.D. - The Heartland ...
		For many years, I have been reading the annual reports issued by The Worldwatch Institute on the state of the world's environment.
		It would seem The Worldwatch Institute is backing away from its earlier ideas that the world can operate to a significant degree on wind and solar power.
		It's no surprise their authors are some of the usual suspects who made previous Worldwatch Institute reports so worthless.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=18800 (1195 words)

	Worldwatch Institute: World Summit Policy Breifs
		The Worldwatch Institute is pleased to send you the sixth in our series of World Summit Policy Briefs, From Rio to Johannesburg: Ecological Farming — Reducing Hunger and Meeting Environmental Goals, by Research Associate Brian Halweil.
		This brief is part of an ongoing series, outlining priorities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
		The Worldwatch Institute is a nonprofit research organization that analyzes global environmental and development issues.
	www.umbsn.org /watershed_programs/wspb6.htm (2110 words)

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