Recently added articles from World Watch:
Beer.(LIFE-CYCLE STUDIES)
Nov 01, 2009; Zhou, Jane ... Overview Enkidu, a man raised by wild animals in the classic Sumerian poem Epic of Gilgamesh, knew nothing of beer until a prostitute guided him to a shepherd's camp. Upon finishing seven full cups, "his soul became free and cheerful, his heart rejoiced, his face glowed. ... He ...
Copenhagen: the road to success.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2009; Flavin, Christopher ... With the Copenhagen Climate Conference now approaching, there are plenty of reasons to be discouraged about the prospect of humanity's surmounting its greatest challenge. While scientists report accelerated Arctic melting and warn that we are already perilously close to ...
Local food debate.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; Wise, Carla A. ... Sarah DeWeerdt makes some important and often-overlooked points in the cover story of your May/June 2009 issue, "Is Local Food Better?" It is increasingly clear that many factors besides travel distance affect the environmental impact of our food choices. Farming methods and inputs, ...
Economies in nature.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; Henshaw, Philip F. ... There are always big gaps in human designs for things nature makes appear easy, but are not. The "economic democracy" idea proposed by David Schweickart ["A New Capitalism--or a New World?", September/October] is interesting for the ideals expressed, but retains one of the central flaws of ...
Dissing Pittsburgh.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2009; McManigle, Reed ... While I applaud your informative article on renewable energy in the September/ October issue ["A Bridge to the Renewable Energy Future"), I was very frustrated to see the smoky steel mill picture from Pittsburgh, which didn't indicate the vintage of the picture. The picture had to be at ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Correction: In "Local Food: The Economics," we misidentified ...
China slowly improving environmental transparency.(EYE ON EARTH)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; Block, Ben ... Under a new public disclosure law, cities across China are slowly becoming more forthright with environmental information, according to a study by U.S. and Chinese environmental groups. The "Measures on Open Environmental Information" ruling, which took effect last year, requires ...
World Bank initiates carbon footprint analysis.(EYE ON EARTH)
Nov 01, 2009; Block, Ben ... The World Bank, in collaboration with the world's leading multilateral development banks, is creating a common method for estimating the greenhouse gas emissions associated with development projects. The assessments are expected to bring greater transparency to lender investment portfolios ...
India announces groundbreaking solar plan.(EYE ON EARTH)
Nov 01, 2009; Costa, Anna da ... With a new solar mega-project, India aims to expand its solar power generation capacity from the current 3 megawatts to a reported 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2020 and 200 GW by 2050. The project, which was approved "in principle" in August, will form the centerpiece of India's efforts to address ...
Agroforestry practiced on nearly half world's farms.(EYE ON EARTH)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; Block, Ben ... While farmers have long placed trees among their crops to enhance soil health, raise marketable fruits or nuts, and protect row crops from damaging winds, more farmers practice agroforestry than was previously appreciated, new data suggest. According to a study from the ...
Wasted chance.(UPDATES)
Nov 01, 2009; ... See "Less Stuff, or More Blood," September/October 2009 Wasted Chance In September, experts with the U.K. Food Ethics Council concluded that eliminating the millions of tons of food thrown away ...
Dry future.(UPDATES)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... See "Portraits of Climate Change: The Rocky Mountains," July/August 2009, p. 8 Dry Future Colorado River reservoirs may dry up by mid-century as the U.S. West warms, according to an August study in Water Resources ...
Above par?(UPDATES)(water management in golf courses )(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... See "Life-Cycle Studies: Golf," January/February 2008 Above Par? U.S. golf courses are increasingly being consulted on their water-saving strategies as they plant native ...
Crude awakening.(UPDATES)(film about class action lawsuit against Chevron Corp.)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... See "ChevronTexaco on Trial, "January/February 2004, p. 10, and "Vision Quest: Who Will Control the Future of the Amazon?, this issue, p. 22 Crude Awakening The new film ...
Fishy business.(UPDATES)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... See "Crimes of (A) Global Nature," September/October 2002, p. 12 Fishy Business An estimated one-fifth of all fish landed in Asian and African waters is caught illegally, according to the Pew Environment Group. The lack of ...
Livestock and climate change: what if the key actors in climate change are ... cows, pigs, and chickens?(Essay)
Nov 01, 2009; Goodland, Robert ... Whenever the causes of climate change are discussed, fossil fuels top the list. Oil, natural gas, and especially coal are indeed major sources of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide ([CO.sub.2]) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). But we believe that the life cycle and supply chain of ...
Talking pictures.(Photograph)
Nov 01, 2009; ... PLASTIC TOYS NOT REQUIRED Above: A creative gameboard for playing kalaha (a version of mancala) in Malawi Above right: High on homemade stilts in Sri Lanka. Right: ...
Vision quest: who will control the future of the Amazon? A complex and high-stakes struggle over the Amazon forests and their resources heats up.(Essay)
Nov 01, 2009; Dudenhoefer, David ... At dawn last June 5, some 650 police and soldiers began clearing a two-week-old blockade set by roughly 3,000 Awajun and Wampis Indians on the main east-west high-way in northern Peru, at a spot called the Devil's Curve, in Bagua Province. The blockade was part of an Amazonian indigenous ...
Seeing REDD: a useful climate-change policy tool, or a license to deny forest dwellers' rights?
Nov 01, 2009; Wells, Zachary ... Deforestation causes about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, but tackling the problem has proved as difficult as reducing fossil fuel-based emissions. The most promising current approach is a proposal called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), ...
Seeking a low-carbon future.(WORLDWATCH FIRST PERSON)(Essay)
Nov 01, 2009; Block, Ben ... As I traveled through the German and Danish countryside this past August, driving past forest corridors and harvested fields, the landscape seemed not to have changed for centuries. The exception, of course, was the wind farms. I spotted the spinning white towers with nearly every glance ...
