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This report is designed to provide an independent review of China's achievements in promoting renewable energy and reducing the energy intensity of its economy. The key drivers behind China's efforts in these areas are the needs to boost energy security, tackle climate change, ease the pressure of environmental pollution, and improve energy supply in rural areas. The goal of this report is to facilitate international cooperation that can help China further improve its energy efficiency and deploy renewables more widely. --from Summary (p. 7)

Front Cover -- Advance Praise for EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: David Orr -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet - Erik Assadourian -- Part One: Earth Education Fundamentals -- 2. Outdoor School for All: Reconnecting Children to Nature - David Sobel -- 3. Ecoliteracy and Schooling for Sustainability - Michael K. Stone -- 4. Education for the Eighth Fire: Indigeneity and Native Ways of Learning - Melissa K. Nelson -- 5. Pathway to Stewardship: A Framework for Children and Youth - Jacob Rodenburg and Nicole Bell -- 6. Growing a New School Food Culture - Luis González Reyes -- 7. The Centrality of Character Education for Creating and Sustaining a Just World - Marvin W. Berkowitz -- 8. Social and Emotional Learning for a Challenging Century - Pamela Barker and Amy McConnell Franklin -- 9. Prioritizing Play - David Whitebread -- 10. Looking the Monster in the Eye: Drawing Comics for Sustainability - Marilyn Mehlmann with Esbjörn Jorsäter, Alexander Mehlmann, and Olena Pometun -- 11. Deeper Learning and the Future of Education - Dennis McGrath and Monica M. Martinez -- 12. All Systems Go! Developing a Generation of "Systems-Smart" Kids - Linda Booth Sweeney -- 13. Reining in the Commercialization of Childhood - Josh Golin and Melissa Campbell -- 14. Home Economics Education: Preparation for a Sustainable and Healthy Future - Helen Maguire and Amanda McCloat -- 15. Our Bodies, Our Future: Expanding Comprehensive Sexuality Education - Mona Kaidbey and Robert Engelman -- Part Two: Higher Education Reimagined -- 16. Suddenly More Than Academic: Higher Education for a Post-Growth World - Michael Maniates -- 17. Bringing the Classroom Back to Life - Jonathan Dawson and Hugo Oliveira

The United States finds itself at a critical juncture, as environmental degradation and resource depletion threaten the capacity of the economy to generate wealth for the indefinite future. Despite growing awareness of the need to build a sustainable economy, U.S. output continues to be characterized by linear flows of materials, heavy dependence on fossil fuels, disregard for renewable resources, and resource use that is strongly connected to economic growth. Entire sets of assumptions, beliefs, and practices will need to be overturned if the United States is to build a sustainable economy in the decades ahead. This report shows that creating a sustainable U.S. economy will require a thoughtful and strategic set of national, state, and local policies that would remake the economic playing field under a new set of principles. Renewable resources cannot be consumed faster than they are regenerated. Non-renewable resources must be reused or recycled to the greatest extent possible. Ongoing development should focus less on ever-higher levels of consumption and more on increased quality of life. A sense of fairness, especially around wealth distribution, is needed to generate social and economic stability across society. Meanwhile, a deceleration of population growth will make the creation of a sustainable economy far easier. These broad principles suggest an entirely new way of building and operating an economy. Read inside for a discussion of policies that could help lead to sustainable prosperity in the United States. - From publisher description

This report represents a thorough effort to explore China's green economy and green jobs potentials. Since 2000, and especially during the 11th Five Year period of 2006-2010, China has prioritized green development in almost all of its leading economic sectors. One of the greatest promises of China's green transition is the potential for expanded employment in industries and economic sectors that can help slow and possibly reduce the country's environmental impact. This report explores greening activities in three leading sectors of China's economy: energy, transportation, and forestry. It's goal is to shed light on the current scale of investment and employment in these sectors and suggests potentials for 2020. China's success in an economy-wide green transition would encourage other countries both developed and developing, to follow the challenging yet rewarding path toward environmental stability

We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value by environmental damage, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal origin are among the underreported consequences of an unsustainable global system. In State of the World 2015, the flagship publication of The Worldwatch Institute, experts explore hidden threats to sustainability and how to address them. Eight key issues are addressed in depth, along with the central question of how we can develop resilience to these and other shocks. With the latest edition of State of The World, the authorities at Worldwatch bring to light challenges we can no longer afford to ignore