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As co-discoverers of “Decarbonization”, we were amused to find a container of Eucarbon (“Good carbon” in Greek) made by a Viennese manufacturer early in the 20th century. The old label advises that the product is a mild purgative and disinfectant, and one might take 1-2 tablets after breakfast, lunch, and dinner with some water. It turns out the same company, Trenka, still makes the product. Should attendees at global climate change conferences take Eurcarbon? Click here for product history and a Wienerlied about Eucarbon sung with true Viennese accent.

We post new scans of four of our older papers:
A Review of Estimates of Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions, part of “Changing Climate: Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee” (360 KB)
Directions for Environmental Technologies (1 MB)
Technology and the Environment: An Overview (1 MB)
Regularities in Technological Development: An Evnironmental View (1.5 MB)

Also, we post a new color scan of a previously posted paper:
A Second Look at the Impacts of Climate Change (7.7 MB)

We post Mark Stoeckle’s beautifully illustrated brochure for the project to develop DNA barcodes for all birds, the All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI).

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/ABBI-barcoding%20life%20takes%20flight%20v1.1.pdf

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/.

We post some more of our older papers: Science International: A US View of its Institutional Needs, Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends, Consuming Materials: The American Way, and Cities and Their Vital Systems: Infrastructure, Past, Present, and Future

Fortune magazine’s 8 August issue publishes “Meet the Supergrid” about Chauncey Starr and the idea we have helped develop about a continental supergrid for joint transport and storage of electricity and hydrogen.

Two recent reports from the Census of Marine Life have drawn
worldwide attention.

1. Discoveries of the month-long Hidden Ocean expedition in the
   Arctic on the US Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy, which Jesse had
   the thrill of joining for its final week, are recounted in a
   press release and images.
2. The paper in Science magazine by Boris Worm and Ransom Myers
   on loss of diversity of top marine predators is also described
   in a press release.

Aware of our long-standing interest in science & diplomacy and belief that science effectively bridges peoples, Harvard physics professor Richard Wilson contacted us in December 2003 about helping U. of Baghdad faculty in science & engineering to visit the USA. We were pleased to help make possible the visit, which finally began 25 June 2005 and earned a front-page story in the Boston Globe 1 July.