Lester R. Brown
With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.More
Richard A. Muller
The author of Physics for Future Presidents returns to educate all of us on the most crucial conundrum facing the nation: energy.More
John Broome
A vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate.More
Martin Rees
One of our greatest scientific minds reflect on the role of science in the twenty-first century.More
Robert N. Stavins
Sixth Edition
The seminal articles in Environmental Economics collected under one roof!More
Helen Caldicott
Revised and updated
“Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi KleinMore
The Worldwatch Institute
The award-winning Worldwatch Institute reveals the often overlooked key trends that tell the true health of our planet.More
David Goodstein
Science tells us that an oil crisis is inevitable. Why and when? And what will our future look like without our favorite fuel?More
Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts, Et Al.
Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.More
Lester R. Brown
"One of the world's most influential thinkers."—Washington PostMore
Hilary F. French
A look at the profound implications of accelerating globalization for our planet's health, and a prescription for the action necessary to cope with this challenge.More
Sandra Postel
The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium the question arises: Will ours be any different?More
Jared Diamond
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.More
Chris Bright
The first general-interest study of the global spread of alien, "exotic" organisms and how they are undermining the world's ecosystems and societies.More
Michael Renner
This new book from the Worldwatch Institute sketches the shape of a new balance in security investments--one that de-emphasizes military means and territorial security and accentuates the environmental aspects of security.More