Decarbonization by McInnes

Colin McInnes, Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Strathclyde, published a wise essay in The Caledonian Mercury on 22 February 2012 that makes use of our work on…

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…

Live Like America

Jesse’s essay “Will the Rest of the World Live Like America?” appears in Technology in Society’s 25th anniversary issue. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/LiveLikeAmerica.pdf…

A Turn for the Better

…that the world is in the early stages of a major shift in environmental consciousness,” wrote Brown in a much-discussed essay earlier this year. Even if Brown is right, however,…

Living in a Material World

A preprint is now available of Living in a Material World, an essay written by PHE researcher Iddo Wernick that will appear in the Winter 2014 issue of Issues in…

Why are flowers beautiful?

Last year, the Lotos Club invited Jesse Ausubel to give a short dinner address at their celebration of Earth. The little essay, Why are flowers beautiful?, draws on ideas about…

Mao and Deforestation

From the 10 February 2011 New York Review of Books, p. 27, essay by Roderick MacFarquhar on Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank…