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The Green Book

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May 08, 2015

Snapshot May 08, 2015

Postscript November 19, 2009

Where the Wild Things Were

How Conservation Efforts are Faltering

Steven Sanderson

March/April 2012

Essay March/April 2012

The Globalization of Animal Welfare

More Food Does Not Require More Suffering

Miyun Park and Peter Singer

February 05, 2014

Snapshot February 05, 2014

Africa’s Anti-Poaching Problem

How Wildlife Trade Bans Are Failing the Continent's Animals

Alexander Kasterine

March/April 2014

Essay March/April 2014

Networking Nature

How Technology Is Transforming Conservation

Jon Hoekstra

April 28, 2015

Letter From April 28, 2015

Animal Rights, Animal Wrongs

The Case for Nonhuman Personhood

Steven M. Wise

August 20, 2013

Snapshot August 20, 2013

The Day the Earth Ran Out

The Causes and Consequences of Earth Overshoot Day

Carter Roberts

July/August 2012

Essay July/August 2012

Environmental Alarmism, Then and Now

The Club of Rome’s Problem—and Ours

Bjorn Lomborg

September/October 2012

Response September/October 2012

Is Growth Good?

Resources, Development, and the Future of the Planet

Frances Beinecke; Dennis Meadows; Jørgen Randers; John Harte; Bjorn Lomborg

October 18, 2012

Snapshot October 18, 2012

No Wars for Water

Why Climate Change Has Not Led to Conflict

Shlomi Dinar, Lucia De Stefano, James Duncan, Kerstin Stahl,

November/December 2013

Essay November/December 2013

The Devolution of the Seas

The Consequences of Oceanic Destruction

Alan B. Sielen

July 23, 2013

Snapshot July 23, 2013

How Yemen Chewed Itself Dry

Farming Qat, Wasting Water

Adam Heffez

July 18, 2014

Snapshot July 18, 2014

Suicide By Drought

How China is Destroying Its Own Water Supply

Sulmaan Khan

March/April 2013

Essay March/April 2013

A Light in the Forest

Brazil's Fight to Save the Amazon and Climate-Change Diplomacy

Jeff Tollefson

October 07, 2013

Snapshot October 07, 2013

The Reincarnation Machine

From Cars to Skyscrapers, Indiana to Shandong

Adam Minter

September/October 2007

Essay September/October 2007

The Great Leap Backward?

Elizabeth Economy

June 10, 2014

Snapshot June 10, 2014

Pollution Without Revolution

Why China's Environmental Crisis Won't Bring Down the Regime

Scott Moore

February 25, 2015

Snapshot February 25, 2015

Harder to Breathe

India's Pollution Crisis—And What To Do About It

Ira Trivedi

November/December 2011

Essay November/December 2011

Why We Still Need Nuclear Power

Making Clean Energy Safe and Affordable

Ernest Moniz

May/June 2012

Essay May/June 2012

Tough Love for Renewable Energy

Making Wind and Solar Power Affordable

Jeffrey Ball

July/August 2012

Essay July/August 2012

Cleaning Up Coal

From Climate Culprit to Solution

Richard K. Morse

May/June 2014

Comment May/June 2014

Don't Just Drill, Baby -- Drill Carefully

How to Make Fracking Safer for the Environment

Fred Krupp

December 13, 2011

Snapshot December 13, 2011

How Chinese Innovation is Changing Green Technology

Beijing's Big Gamble on Renewables

S. Julio Friedmann

March/April 2014

The First Cold War

The Environmental Lessons of the Little Ice Age

Deborah R. Coen

March/April 2009

Essay March/April 2009

The Geoengineering Option

A Last Resort Against Global Warming?

David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner, Katharine Ricke

March 27, 2013

Postscript March 27, 2013

The Truth About Geoengineering

Science Fiction and Science Fact

David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbrune

May/June 2012

Essay May/June 2012

The Climate Threat We Can Beat

What It Is and How to Deal With It

David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, Veerabhadran Ramanathan

September/October 2013

Comment September/October 2013

How Big Business Can Save the Climate

Multinational Corporations Can Succeed Where Governments Have Failed

Jerry Patchell and Roger Hayter

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