Ayres, Edis founder of Running Times magazine and former editor of World Watch, a monthly environmental magazine. Ayres retired from the World Watch Institute in 2004. He co-edited The World Watch Reader 1998 and Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future.
God's Last Offer. Well before the current newsworthiness of climate change, Ayres wrote: “Hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts of unprecedented dimensions, along with outbreaks of terrifying new disease, are striking every continent...” and identified four megaphenomena: carbon gas emissions; biological extinctions; unsustainable consumption; exploding human populations. God's last offer is an offer of hope, of possibility.
Four Walls Eight Windows, US, 1999, ISBN 1 56858 125 4