1. How many planets? : a survey of the global environment -- 2. Five meta-trends changing the world / David Pearce Snyder -- 3. Globalization's effects on the environment / Jo Kwong -- 4. Do global attitudes and behaviors support sustainable development? / Anthony A. Leiserowitz, Robert W. Kates, and Thomas M. Parris -- 5. The climax of humanity / George Musser -- 6. Population and consumption : what we know, what we need to know / Robert W. Kates -- 7. A new security paradigm / Gregory D. Foster -- 8. Can organic farming feed us all? / Brian Halweil -- 9. Where oil and water do mix : environmental scarcity and future conflict in the Middle East and North Africa / Jason J. Morrissette and Douglas A. Borer -- 10. The irony of climate / Brian Halweil -- 11. Avoiding green marketing myopia / Jacquelyn A. Ottman, Edwin R. Stafford, and Cathy L. Hartman -- 12. More profit with less carbon / Amory B. Lovins -- 13. Wind power : obstacles and opportunities / Martin J. Pasqualetti -- 14. Personalized energy : the next paradigm / Stephen M. Millett -- 15. Hydrogen : waiting for the revolution / Bill Keenan -- 16. Sunrise for renewable energy? -- 17. Strangers in our midst : the problem of invasive alien species / Jeffrey A. McNeely -- 18. Markets for biodiversity services : potential roles and challenges / Michael Jenkins, Sara J. Scherr, and Mira Inbar -- 19. Dryland development : success stories from West Africa / Michael Mortimore -- 20. Tracking U.S. groundwater : reserves for the future? / William M. Alley -- 21. How much is clean water worth? / Jim Morrison -- 22. Searching for sustainability : forest policies, smallholders, and the trans-Amazon highway / Eirivelthon Lima et al. -- 23. Agricultural pesticides in developing countries / Sylvia I. Karlsson -- 24. Smog alert : the challenges of battling ozone polution / Mark Bernstein -- 25. How did humans first alter global climate? / William F. Ruddiman -- 26. The tipping point / Jeffrey Kluger -- 27. Swift boating, stealth budgeting, and unitary executives / James Hansen