Iddo Breakthrough

PHE’s Iddo Wernick was named a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute for his work on the decoupling of resource use from the environment. This continues our connection with the

Dinochelus ausubeli

Shane T. Ahyong (Australian Museum), Tin-Yam Chan (National Taiwan Ocean University), and Philippe Bouchet (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris) have honored Jesse by naming a magnificent newly discovered lobster the

Wordle

The cool web app Wordle creates interesting word cloud summaries of papers, blogs. etc. Here are some summaries of PHE papers: Live Like America (original paper) St. Hubert (original paper)…

Corngrowers outperform professors

In a 2011 lecture at Iowa State University, Prof. Thomas Sinclair (North Carolina State) concluded from models and projections of yields of maize that maximum US corn yields would be…

Jesse’s Oak Ridge slides

Jesse presented the 9th annual Alvin M. Weinberg lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5 June, expanding his April Austin talk on decarbonization. Now 88 and continuously creative, Alvin directed…

Global libido

David Goldman, aka Spengler, cites our 1998 essay “Reasons to worry about the human environment” in his provocative 13 Mar 2012 column in AsiaTimes “Japan’s lost libido and America’s asexual…