Climate change isn't just about the environment it's about people.
The CSW is giving the 2009 Green Book Award to the Columbia economist Jeffrey D. Sachs for his 2008 book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. A followup to his acclaimed 2005 bestseller The End of Poverty, Common Wealth proposes detailed solutions not only for extreme poverty but also for overpopulation, environmental degradation and related problems. The book has been praised by Nobel laureate Al Gore; former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan; and Harvard biologist Edward Wilson, winner of the 2007 Green Book Award. In the preface to Common Wealth, Wilson calls it "a state of the world report of immediate and enormous practical value."
April 20, 2009 
