Subject(s): Deficit and debt, Ecological deficits, Reducing oil deficits, Diverging food security trends, Ideology and agriculture -- Assessing ecological decline : economic cost -- Increasing water efficiency : Water saving irrigation methods, New cropping patterns, Recycling and reuse, conservation in cities -- managing rangelands : lessons of a marginal resources, Forest, Regeneration of range -- Reducing dependence on Oil -- Reforming the electricity power industry : renewable electricity , Cogeneration boom -- Decommissioning nuclear power plants : Decontamination and dismantlement, Waste management -- banishing Tobacco : anti smoking efforts -- Investing in children , Reversing Africa's decline, Replanting forests, Restoring soils,Agriculture -- national security