Quiet Ocean plan published

…support for its activities. Until funding is raised for an international project office, the project sponsors (SCOR and POGO) will provide administrative support for the project. RU’s Program for the…

IE Reflections posted

We notice that the 1992 paper “Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium” (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) has been published online: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/879 We also have a copy on our server:…

Science and Diplomacy

…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…

Budget Hero

Continuing our interest in Serious Games, we encouraged the creation of an interactive video game about the US federal budget deficit through Sloan and Lounsbery.  The game, Budget Hero…

Coach and the Fly

Are USA carbon dioxide emissions now around their “natural” peak?  Following up on our postings 589 and 585 on 20 April 2009, we post a trio of figures that…

Budget Hero

The Alfred P. Sloan and Richard Lounsbery foundations have supported the creation of an interactive game to reduce the USA federal government budget deficit. The game has been played more…

Jesse’s autobiography published & on sale

…a little more information, please see the 26 February 2014 post. Including tax and shipping to the USA, the cost on a Mastercard or Visa is EUR 26.48    …

Life in submarine canyons

…East Coast of the USA, click on Washington Canyon (6 Sept) and on Norfolk Canyon (7 Sept). Thanks to Roland Brian, Arthur Howard, and Jared Drewniak for great videography and