Issues & Trends
| Climate Already Helping Disease Spread North - Study Source: Reuters |
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Global Arms Spending Tops $1.6TThe Associated Press |
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| Cars And People Compete For GrainLester R. Brown At a time when excessive pressures on the earth’s land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars—one that threatens world food security. |
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Virus Ravages Cassava Plants In Africa Tyler Hicks/The New York Times: A brown streak-infected Cassava.
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| Fortress World Or Great Transition? A report by the Tellus Institute explores four scenarios in response to sustainability demands, and calls for a profound restructuring of global economic priorities. |
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| World Energy Use Projected To Grow 49 Percent Between 2007 And 2035 Rapid Growth Projected for Renewables, but Fossil Fuels Continue to Provide Most of the World’s Energy Under Current Policies WASHINGTON, DC - World marketed energy consumption grows 49 percent between 2007 and 2035, driven by economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the Reference case projection from |
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| More Than One In Four Use Internet Worldwide, Says ITU By John Ribeiro bout 26 percent of the world's population were online at the end of 2009, and mobile telephony is booming with the number of mobile subscribers likely to reach the 5 billion mark this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). |
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| Global CO2 Emissions To Rise 43 Percent By 2035: EIA (Reuters) - The world's emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil, and natural gas should rise 43 percent by 2035 barring global agreements to reduce output of the gases blamed for warming the planet, the top U.S. energy forecaster said on Tuesday. |
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| Renewables Hit The Big Time A review of the world's biggest existing and planned renewable energy projects in the solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and wave energy sectors. by Jennifer Kho, Contributor |
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| Parking Lots To Parks: Designing Livable Cities Lester R. Brown As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could not help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking lots. It was obvious that Tel Aviv, expanding from a small settlement a half-century ago to a city of some 3 million today, had evolved during the automobile era. |