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• From the president
  September 2004
  Message from Jonathan Lash

• A time of change and choices
  March 2004
  Individuals and institutions must choose to change, to seek to balance our natural resource accounts by inventing ways to assure human well-being at less cost to the Earth and to value long-term sustainability over short-term profit.

• Commentary: Russia's Call on Global Warming
  February 2004
  

• Green-Powered Corporate Citizenship
  October 2003
  In the absence of government leadership, a number of major corporations are taking the lead on green energy in the United States.

• Subsidies and the Decline of the World’s Fisheries
  June 2003
  New research shows that ocean fisheries around the world are 90% fished out. What's more shocking is that a number of governments have been paying billions to subsidize the devastation.

• The climate question: How much will taking action really cost?
  March 2003
  U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George Bush may be firm allies on Iraq, but they couldn’t be further apart on the issue of global warming.

• Commentary: More rights, less destruction?
  February 2003
  Environmental destruction and human-rights abuses often go hand in hand. Giving people information and the right to participate often yields fairer decisions that are better for the earth. (803 words)

• A message from the President
  August 2002
  

• Historical perspective: Are we on the verge of another major rapid shift?
  January 2002
  Change in attitudes and change in policies is possible.

• Editorial: Dealing with the tinder as well as the flint
  November 2001
  Violence is not a pathology of the poor. But the compound of poverty, powerlessness, lack of opportunity, and injustice is volatile: exactly the mix that the terrorists who attacked us hope to ignite.

• Climate news from Bonn
  July 2001
  The White House appears to have miscalculated the importance of the climate change issue, the seriousness of our allies, and the capacity of U.S. industry to respond.

• New Ventures
  April 2001
  Latin America is full of green business ideas. But investors are hard to convince. Working with regional business schools, WRI connects people with great ideas to people with capital, creating a network of green investors and entrepreneurs in the region.

• Can markets, information and connectivity clean up our waters?
  February 2001
  WRI decided to explore the cost and performance of various strategies to help farmers, and municpal and industrial sources reduce nutrient pollution.

• Letter from Jonathan Lash to the Society of Environmental Journalists
  January 2001
  Urging journalists to exercise caution in reporting on Bjørn Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
  December 2000
  We convened top scientists from around the world to create the design for a global assessment, and to oversee a pilot assessment of five ecosystems to demonstrate both the need and the feasibility of the process.

• WRI at a glance
  March 2000
  When WRI was founded in 1982, our goal was to place questions of natural resource destruction, environmental pollution, and ecosystem degradation on the global agenda.