Subject(s): Economic -- Eco-Economy -- Population and Health -- Ecological economics -- Environmental economics -- Environmental degradation -- Economic cost of ecological deficits -- Desert invading China -- Advancing desert gaining momentum -- From ecological deficits to dust bowl -- Assessing the food prospect -- Soil: Surplus and deficit -- Water deficit -- Food economy , Soyabean factor, Food security -- Climate change and its cost -- Restructuring the energy economy -- Wind-Hydrogen economy -- Fixing the market -- Eco-Economy indications: twelve trends to track -- Population growing by 80 million annually , Economic growth losing momentum, Grain harvest growth slowing, Forest cover shrinking, Fish catch levelling off, Water scarcity spreading, Carbon emission climbing, global temperature rising, Ice melting , Wind electric generation soaring, bicycle production breaks 100 million , Solar cell sales booming -- Eco-economy update -- Energy and climate -- US farmers double cropping corn and wind energy , Global climate coalition, OPEC has world over a barrel again, Wind power, Energy plan -- Population and health -- Population growth sentencing millions to hydrological poverty -- Africa and Health care -- HIV epidemic restructuring Africa's population , Obesity threaten health in exercise-deprived societies , Iran's birthrate plummeting at record pace -- Food, land and Water -- Car and crops competing for land , Dust bowl threatening China's future, Water shortage and food security in China, World's rangelands deteriorating under mounting pressure -- Forest, Fisheries and disappearing species -- Fish faring may overtake cattle ranching as a food source , Illegal logging threatens ecological and economic stability -- Ecological economics -- Greeen power purchases growing, New York: garbage capital of the world, Tax shifting on the rise