State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.
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First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years in a cabin amidst woodland near Walden Pond.
The Population Bomb criticizes overpopulation and advocates instant action to limit population growth. The author justifies his arguments with huge starvation threats and other trouble spots.
Energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the United States off oil and coal by 2050 cheaply and easily, by integrating sectors as well as innovations.
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution reveals how today’s global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world.
The Ecology of Commerce outlines the environmentally destructive aspects of many current business practices, and offers the vision of businesses adopting new practices to promote environmental restoration.
Ecological Sites of Memory is a RCC project that seeks to look into the historical memories that resonate in our environmental thinking.
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, scientists, policy experts, and thought leaders attempt to restore the meaning to sustainability as more than just a marketing tool.