…the heavy metals released by industry and the consumption of its products over the past two centuries have had serious behavioral effects. Lead and other metallic elements profoundly alter the…
…try, though the snake brain keeps reasserting itself, on Wall Street, in the Balkans, and clawing for Nobel prizes in Stockholm. Pharmacology also tries for behavioral control, with increasing success….
…personal vehicles. We want to travel further and therefore at higher speed. We rarely reuse or repair products, though some products are becoming smaller and lighter. In short, the outlook…
…number instead of another and, whether the choice, probably made without explicit reasoning, can nevertheless be rationalized. Some years ago a striking attempt at rationalization was made for India. It…
…and stamp out masses of cars like tin ducks. But the massive production also generated massive by-production. And the by-products and the products themselves consumed material and piled and diffused…
The proletariat of American research, the graduate students and the postdocs, cry and whisper. Internet traffic even suggests they organize. At Yale, some struck. Meanwhile, William Massy of Stanford University…
…anyone here from Philadelphia? Now mating behavior is certainly a domain in which people consider themselves free, if not in India at least in the USA. So, it may come…
…of these actors in the industrial ecology of forests to reveal their leverage for improving environmental quality. Consumers lessened their intensity of use of wood products (wood products per GDP)…
…humans over much of the planet much of the year. Still, humanity has invested heavily in adjusting to the recent climate. We are attached to the system of reservoirs providing…
…of the design process for manufacturing and products, wastes might be designed to be useful by-products. “These considerations suggest that, in general, producing concentrated wastes that could be useful as…