• Toward an eco-economy / Lester Brown
• What does the future hold for the Earth's population / Gilles Pison
• Eco-efficient cities / Konrad Otto-Zimmerman
• Agriculture of the world / Marc Dufumier
• Make peace with water / Riccardo Petrella
• Biodiversity / Jean-Marie Pelt
• The silence of the oceans / Philippe Cury
• Climate change / Nicholas Stern
• Global energy in crisis / Richard Heinberg
• Services provided by the ecosystem: Precious, vital, neglected / Pavan Sukhdev and Florian Eppink
• Microcredit and the future of poverty / Jacques Attali
• Putting the end of a world to good use / Patrick Viveret.

• Sustainable development : a project for civilization / Dominique Bourg
• Climate change or climate shock? / Jean-Marc Jancovici
• Sustainable forest management, conservation, and recovering / Hosny El-Lakany
• Biodiversity and the biosphere / Brian Groombridge
• Oceans and seas / Alan Simcock
• Fresh water / Peter H. Gleick
• Diverse agriculture : the stakes of well-controlled globalization / Laurence Tubiana
• Renewable energy / Alain Liebard
• Transport / John Whitelegg and Gary Haq
• Abolishing poverty / Pierre Sane
• Growth, development, and sustainability / Rene Passet
• The path to responsible and sustainable development / Christian Balmes.

A four page statistical introduction, "The Earth In Numbers, " is followed by 366 full-page spreads, from January 01 through December 31, featuring aerial photographs of the earth's surface accompanied by a descriptive paragraph, with an emphasis on ecology and the impact of human culture on the Earth. A brief essay precedes each month's photographs.