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The new 18″ video “Perspectives on Ocean Exploration” includes comments by Jesse Ausubel as well as Robert Ballard, Sylvia Earle, Paul Gaffney, Walter Munk, and others. Jerry Schubel of the Aquarium of the Pacific led the preparation of the video, aimed at school programs and other groups unfamiliar with ocean exploration.

Jacques Perrin’s environmental films will be featured 21-24 May 2015 at a festival organized by the Vineyard Conservation Society and Martha’s Vineyard Film Society.  Jesse Ausubel will do Q&A after the great film Oceans on the 21st and 24th.

Good articles about the festival appeared in the Martha’s Vineyard Times and the Vineyard Gazette.

In March 2006 we helped with the Washington DC festival in honor of the films of Jacques Perrin.

The Return of Nature, a lightly edited version of Jesse Ausubel’s Nature Rebounds SALT talk, has been published in The Breakthrough Journal.

A pdf version of the paper with more figures and photos, titled “Nature Rebounds”, can be found here.

Thanks to editors Dale Langford and Jenna Mukono, to Iddo Wernick for careful work on the figures, and to Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus for Breakthrough’s hospitality.

Jesse Ausubel’s short essay,Methane Hydrates and the Deep Carbon Observatory, about the recently published Frozen Heat report, has been posted on the DCO website.

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) released the short report from the November 2014 Fort Worth meeting on America’s Increasing Reliance on Natural Gas: Benefits and Risks of a Methane Economy.  Jesse Ausubel served on the organizing committee, chaired by Chris Cameron.

The 23 February 2015 New Yorker magazine features the acoustic company of our long-time research associate, Perrin Meyer, in a fascinating article about controlling sonic microenvironments, such as individual tables in restaurants, in Wizards of Sound.

Working with colleagues at National Taiwan University, PHE researcher Iddo Wernick coauthored a paper, published in the journal Sustainability, on environmental evaluation of supply chains.  The full citation is:

Ching-Ching Liu , Yue-Hwa Yu , Iddo K. Wernick, and Ching-Yuan Chang, 2015, Using the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct to Evaluate Green Supply Chain Management: An Empirical Study of Taiwan’s Computer Industry, Sustainability 2015, 7(3), 2787-2803; doi:10.3390/su7032787