Table of Contents

Foreword State of the World: A Year in Review Seeding the Sustainable Economy A New Bottom Line for Progress Rethinking Production The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyles Meat and Seafood: The Global Diet's Most Costly Ingredients Building a Low-Carbon Economy Improving Carbon Markets Water in a Sustainable Economy Banking on Biodiversity The Parallel Economy of the Commons Engaging Communities for a Sustainable World Mobilizing Human Energy Investing for Sustainability New Approaches to Trade Governance

About the Author

The Worldwatch Institute in Washington DC is one of the world's leading research centres for environmentally sustainable development.

Reviews

'The book offers a real ray of hope that action is being taken on an ever increasing scale and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone with a serious concern for the environment.' Ethical Pulse at Ethical Junction 'It stands alone as the single most useful annual on the world's environmental issues.' The British Ecological Society's Ecological and Environmental Education