…to Cesare Marchetti, Perrin Meyer, and Paul Waggoner for their help. The figures are located at the end of this document for easier online reading. Hope is a better companion…
…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…
…or, better yet, a power plant, serving an entire community. At first, electric companies were necessarily small. Technology for the transport of electricity particularly limited the scale of operations. The…
…of hydrogen and carbon competing for market niche as did horses and automobiles or audio cassettes and compact discs, except the H/C competition extends over 300 years. In 1800 carbon had…
…and about the combined area of the States of Washington, Oregon, and Maine, or the size of Spain. Compounding 20 more years would spare 20 million more hectares. If we…
…seasonal peaks7. Production can now proceed more or less continuously in severe environments. For example, North Sea offshore oil platforms operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. At…
…health care and environmental protection using the community as the focal point or, by medical analogy, the “community as the patient.” To broaden the base of knowledge and professional contacts…
…community level, systems for integrating and disseminating information and providing services at the community level, and policy levers that facilitate greater flexibility to community service providers. Treating the “community as…
…Stollmack. “We have changed the entire complexion of our company and our product line because of this global warming trend,” he says. The company, for example, makes all its heavy…
…information. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s U.S. corn grower, 10 billion people will need only half of today’s…