Semiconductors can have substantial environmental costs. The total weight of fossil fuels and chemicals used to produce a 2-gram memory chip is 630 times the weight of the chip itself. Over its life cycle, which includes both production and use, … Continue reading
Growing pay discrepancies in the United States emerge largely from a compensation system skewed in favor of the CEO, most notably the common practice of offering stock options (giving CEOs the right to buy company stock in the future at … Continue reading
Produced every year by the World Watch Institute, the state of the world provides the most comprehensive and current analysis on the planet. This 20th anniversary edition explores some of the critical challenges that our world is facing today, such … Continue reading
Stromeinspeisungsgesetz is the name of a German law that created the boom of the renewable energy market in the 1990’s. In 1990, Germany had virtually no renewable energy industry. At the end of the 1990’s, Germany was well ahead of … Continue reading
Paper #147 of the Worldwatch Institute Cities are home to more people than ever before. In 1900, only 160 million people, one tenth of the world’s population, were city dwellers. But soon after 2000, in contrast, half the world (3.2 … Continue reading
Paper # 158 by the Worldwatch Institute In the 1990s, natural catastrophes like hurricanes, floods, and fires caused over $608 billion in economic losses worldwide, an amount greater than during the previous four decades combined. But a growing share of … Continue reading
Paper # 157 of the Worldwatch Institute. The paper discusses the notion of a “hydrogen economy”. Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element in the universe, is getting increased interest due to technical advances in fuel cells. But where will … Continue reading
This book by Hilary Frech studies the environmentla impact of the globalization of commerce. weblink: secure.worldwatch.org/cgi-bin/wwinst/BWB13Psecure.worldwatch.org/cgi-bin/wwinst/BWB13P • from: World Watch Institute • in detail XlnkS4D5 XlnkC17DD
Report from the world watch institute of the consequences of Global Warming • from: World Watch Institute • document: Ice Breaker • in detail XlnkS40F XlnkC17DD
From the world watch institute, a map showing the melting of the world ice • from: World Watch Institute • document: Ice Melt Map • in detail • see also: Climate Change XlnkS40E XlnkC17DD