Topic: Worldwatch Institute
The holidays are a time of feasting and indulging, and with that comes the fact that inevitably more food gets tossed into the garbage after a...
Global production of biofuel reached an all-time high in 2010, the Worldwatch Institute reported on Tuesday. The Washington DC-based institute...
China's fast-growing green economy could provide millions of new jobs in the coming decade, according to a study from the Worldwatch Institute. The...
OSLO (Reuters) - Investments to create new jobs in clean energies risk backfiring by curbing employment in other parts of the economy, a study commissioned by Danish "Skeptical Environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg said on Monday.The report also said that jobs in green energies ...
World agriculture employs more than one billion people but is in trouble because it's the biggest consumer of ever scarcer water and a huge producer of greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said Wednesday.Worldwatch Institute, a research group on climate ...
(iStockphoto). . Have you ever watched a television show like MTV Cribs or any of the Real Housewives series and started to do the math? Have you...
A new report from the Worldwatch Institute argues that assuring all women have access to contraception and taking steps to improve women's lives should be among key strategies in the fight against global climate change.. The report examines United Nations projections ...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that under favourable conditions, aquaculture could supply the world with 39 million tons of fish by the year 2010--about 70% more than was produced in 1998. If aquaculture is to remain an important source of ...
September 25, 2008How will the recent bad economic news affect energy efficiency efforts? If you are looking for facts and figures to bolster arguments about efficiency?s job-creation ability, check out the 300-plus page report, ?Green Jobs: ? Released this month by the ...
Improved drilling techniques have unlocked vast new reserves of shale gas, a resource that could be large enough to displace significant amounts of coal, and an energy source that emits less than half the carbon dioxide. A new independent assessment by the ...