…slower, more urban New York. The 30 million Californians, who epitomize sprawl, in fact average 628m2 of developed land each, about the same as New Yorkers. The transport system and the…
…trifle inferior to the arc in light quality and efficiency but was immensely more practical. Symbolically, in 1882 the New York Stock Exchange installed three large “electro-liers,” new chandeliers with…
…forests. SPARING FARMLAND Analysis of farming shows a coherent pattern of evolution from Neolithic times up to our new millennium (Marchetti 1979). All technical advances have been exploited for intensification,…
…industry, and less than 1/10th for cities. Hydroelectric generation currently uses (but does not consume) 2.6 times the average runoff in the conterminous US by running water through several turbines…
…An Atlas for Action on Toxins and Mortality. New York: Times Books/Random House. Gore, A. 1993. From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less….
…Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. New York Times, (1988) ‘It’s Official! Vacations Really Aren’t Un-Japanese’, Section 1, page 4, column 1, 6 August. New York Times, (1988) ‘Relaxing Takes…
…people times GDP/people times fuel/GDP times carbon/fuel . . . or carbon = carbon, an identity. Consider the world carbon emission performance for 1950-1990 and for 1991-1999 divided into the…
Following the first Banbury workshop in March 2003, Jesse Ausubel and I wrote a “Draft Scientific Rationale and Strategy” that described DNA barcoding as ““Google” for Life Forms” (with the…
…International Aquarium Congress for the chance to share with you, the leaders of the international aquarium community, news of progress toward the implementation of a scientific program to carry out…
…pedal without a helmet. I often eat sushi, a frequent cause of food poisoning. I choose to live in a neighborhood in New York City where during the 1980s most…