Community Risk Profiles: Summary

…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….

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

…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…

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)

…flocking together. The reptilian brain makes most of the sensational news and will not retreat. Our brains and thus our basic instincts and behaviors have remained largely unchanged for a…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…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…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…–How can national and international law and institutions exert leverage? As I will share with you later, we were able to create a feasible and attractive vision, with more forest…

The Environment for Future Business

JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 8 (1): 39–52 1998 This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.

…timely information flows and better organized markets – raised yields to feed billions more without clearing new fields. Per hectare, world grain yields rose 2.15 percent annually between 1960-1994. The

Some Ways to Lessen Worries about Climate Change [PDF]

JH Ausubel. The Electricity Journal 14 (1): 24–33 2001

New York City’s tasty waster, vineyards in Bordeaux, and the National Park designated around the precipitous waterfalls of Yosemite. Moreover, there is some – unknowable – chance that our activities…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…1994. 30 – F J Sulloway, Born to Rebel, Pantheon, New York, 1996. 31 – International Labor Organization (ILO), Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 55th Issue, ILO, Geneva; International Labor Organization, World

Does Energy Policy Matter?

…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