…bacterial infection caused primarily by Salmonella typhi.[9] Mary Mallon, the cook (and asymptomatic carrier) popularly known as Typhoid Mary, was a major factor in empowering the New York City Department of…
Jesse is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, “Auto Industry Feels Threatened; Is Heat Essentially Unhealthy?” Special Report: Global Warming Auto Industry Feels Threatened; Is Heat Essentially Unhealthy? October 19,…
…that our technology not only spares resources but also expands our niche. Technology further adds to population by increasing longevity and decreasing mortality. Although fertility has also declined greatly; the…
…in general, efficiency in energy favors efficiency in materials; efficiency in materials favors efficiency in land; efficiency in land favors efficiency in water; and efficiency in water favors efficiency in…
…one global energy system. Connected by common technology, capital, and information, it is dynamic, and all nations are coupled to it. The same year that Darwin published his theory of…
…of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, calls “designer waste streams.” Consider all that stalk, or stover, that every corn plant grows along with its kernels. Scientists at Monsanto and Heartland…
…the productivity and efficiency of natural resource use may be a useful operational definition of sustainability. Importantly, as Hubert would note, a vegetarian diet of 3,000 primary calories per day…
…and service products. Rates of efficiency gain do not seem persistently altered by so-called policy. Better efficiency, by the way, is not particularly driven by prices. For example, the prize…
…integrate DNA sequence data with classical taxonomy. As emphasized by Rob DeSalle and others, there is a need to interweave phylogeny and classical taxonomy, which can be met by including…
…Costly, complicated observational programs prudently begin with pilot projects, to test both techniques and political will. Not only technology and stressed fisheries but also an international treaty to protect biodiversity…