Area of Research: Forests, Farms and Materials
The Potato and the Prius
How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?
The Shrinking Footprint of American Meat
Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends
National Material Metrics for Industrial Ecology
National Materials Flows and the Environment
Worthless Nature
Thanks to Marian Tupy for republishing Jesse Ausubel’s short essay, We Must Make Nature Worthless, in Human Progress.
Peak stuff?
Fred Pearce writes about our exploration of whether humanity is nearing peak use of stuff in this article in Anthropocene magazine: Are We Approaching Peak Stuff? Almost imperceptibly, we are stepping off the consumption treadmill
Potato and Prius
We post ‘The Potato and the Prius,’ the January 2018 keynote address by Jesse Ausubel to the Potato Business Summit of the United Potato Growers of America.