Does Energy Policy Matter?

On 18 April Jesse gave a lunch seminar at the University Club in Washington DC titled “Does Energy Policy Matter?” Here is the edited transcript, including Q & A. William…

Community Risk Profiles: Summary

…share control of consumer products that are sources of ionizing radiation. A further cadre of agencies govern occupational exposures. This highly organized yet unwieldy situation does not result from ill…

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

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

…nature. Can changes in logging and farming offset the urban sprawl? Forests To shed light on changes of forested area, I ask first does multiplying the number of people or…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…mentioned earlier that tunneling has a future even if coal mining does not.  The decision to build underground critically determines the cost of the SuperGrid.  But, benefits include reduced vulnerability to attack…

2020 declared Year of Quiet Ocean – News from International Quiet Ocean Experiment

…to find out  https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/what-happened-when-the-oceans-went-quiet-during-the-pandemic-scientists-set-to-find-out-76387 The National News, United Arab Emirates Oceans silenced by Covid to reveal impact of human activity on marine life https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/oceans-silenced-by-covid-to-reveal-impact-of-human-activity-on-marine-life-1.1199684 COSMOS Magazine, Australia Year of the…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…sources, public and private.  The main cost of the program will be the field projects, likely to cost about $5-$25 million each.  While Sloan and other private funders can catalyze…

Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

JH Ausubel, R Herman, WF Massy, SV Massy. What Higher Education is Doing Right, W.F. Massy and J.W. Meyerson, eds., Princeton University 107–120 1997 120

…management and (lack of) leadership costs, especially tuition and overhead rates the rationale for and length of time to the doctoral degree employment terms for the academic workforce curriculum content…

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.

…has conquered the earth can also spare it. To answer this question, I shall examine secular trends in what technology does with four paramount resources: energy, materials, land and water….

Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets

JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 50: 113–131 1995

…holidays”2 -1,744 -8,534 -10,278 -720 -3,280 -4,000 Shorter/Longer Work career3 +11,674 -13,779 -2,105 -2,675 +19,268 +16,593 TOTAL -26,830 -34,810 -61,640 -22,240 -710 -22,950 1Changes in hours worked per week (lower…