Program for the Human Environment

The festival in Washington DC celebrating the nature films of Jacques Perrin opened last night with an event highlighting Galatee’s new Oceans Project. We post Jesse’s Welcoming Remarks to Jacques Perrin.

China confirmed its leadership in new transport technology with an announcement 13 March 2006 that it will build the world’s 2^nd commercial maglev between Shanghai and Hangzhou, 175 km apart. The round trip will take less than 1 hour, fitting the journey into the human daily travel time budget and assuring massive traffic, as we explain in our papers Toward Green Mobility and The Evolution of Transport.

Superb stories on the Census of Marine Life appeared 13 February in the leading German weekly, Der Spiegel, and 22 February in the leading Brazilian weekly, Veja.

On 14 March Jesse will particiapte in a seminar organized by the New York Times about climate change.

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Claire Williams’ book Landscapes, Genomics, and Transgenic Conifers to which we contributed “Foresters and DNA” is now available from Amazon where the site features our opening sentence: “The decoding of DNA messages produces magnificent structures, perhaps none more magnificent than a tree…”

Always alert for surprising ways that technology may spare environment, we are delighted by papers showing that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in traditional Chinese medicine. Better Viagra than Tiger Bone or Rhino Horn, as Richard Ellis has written.