On 4 June Jesse addressed a session of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York City about the Census of Marine Life. We post Jesse’s short talk and powepoint slide show:

http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/CoMLUN4June03.pdf

http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/CoMLUN4June03.ppt (Warning - 8.1MB file!)

Jesse presented the 9th annual Alvin M. Weinberg lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5 June, expanding his April Austin talk on decarbonization. Herewith the expanded Oak Ridge version of “Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years” and its Powerpoint slides.

Decarbonization paper: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/oakridge.pdf
Decarbonization Powerpoint slides: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/oakridgePPT.pdf

We post the brief remarks in Spanish that Jesse gave at the inaugural ceremony of the Census of Marine Life meeting for South America in Concepcion, Chile, 29 October 2002.

http://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/comlconcepcionsp.pdf

We post a short general talk Jesse gave in the spring about the Census of Marine Life, “The Census of Marine Life: A Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”.

Our work about sparing land for nature is mentioned in the 26 August issue of Time Magazine on How to Save the Earth.

On 18 April Jesse gave a lunch seminar at the University Club in
Washington DC titled “Does Energy Policy Matter?” Click for the edited
transcript, including Q & A.
http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=7

The second version (more features, fewer bugs) of the university simulator,
Virtual U., debuted 1 February at a workshop at the U. of Pennsylvania for
about two dozen schools using the simulator in the teaching of management
of higher education. Herewith Jesse’s opening keynote,
“Virtual U.: Origins and New Release”.

In May 2001 IIASA sponsored a meeting in Helsinki about the Institute for its
Nordic members. Jesse spoke about why IIASA has mattered in general and in
particular its role in the development of industrial ecology. The IIASA
Society has now posted his talk, “Industrial ecology, its origins, progress,
and relation to IIASA.”

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/IIASA_Society/pdf/Ausubel.pdf

(a local copy is here Ausubel.pdf)

We post Jesse’s
“On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest.” Prepared as a
plenary talk for the September 2001 Denver convention of the Society of
American Foresters, it was not delivered because of 9/11 but will be
published in the proceedings, soon to appear.

We newly post Jesse’s plenary address to the July 2001 Amsterdam Global Change
Open Science Conference,
“Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert.”