Rare mineral species

…Zucker: Manche Mineralien sind extrem selten (Less than a sugar cube: Some minerals are extremely rare) Die Welt, Germany Vergessen Sie Diamanten! Verschenken Sie Edelsteine! (Forget diamonds! Offer gems!) Reuters…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…Broos, Paulus Potter: Schilderijen, tekeningen en etsen, Waanders, Zwolle, 1994. [ii] The upper right panel shows Diana and Acteon, from the Metamorphosis of the Roman poet Ovid. Acteon, a hunter, was walking in the…

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…the dirty fossil fuels. Carbon enters the energy economy bonded with hydrogen as wood (and other biomass), coal, oil and natural gas. Per unit of energy, wood weighs most heavily…

The Great Reversal: Nature’s Chance to Restore Land and Sea

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 22: 289–302 2000

…California rate, the 4 billion added to today’s 6 billion people would cover about 240 million hectares, midway in size between Mexico and Argentina. By enduring crowding, urbanites spare land…

Added online reprints Malthus

Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…

We posted the online

We posted the online paper, Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets, complete with full tables and figures….

We posted the online

We posted the online paper Technical Progress and Climatic Change….

We posted the online

We posted the online paper Mitigation and Adaptation for Climate Change: Answers and Questions….

We posted the online

We posted the online article The Environment for Future Business and the “CyberCampus” Prospectus….