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.

…1989. Technological Progress, Structural Change and Efficient Energy Use: Trends Worldwide and in Austria, International Part. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Nakicenovic, N. 1996. Decarbonization. Daedalus 125(3):95-112. Organization for…

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)

…behind the state-of-the-art of his most productive neighbor. On average the world corn farmer has been making the greatest annual percentage improvement. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world

Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms

JH Ausubel. World Energy Council Journal July: 8–16 1998

…I.K. Wernick and J.H. Ausubel, “National Materials Flows and the Environment,” Annual Review of Energy and Environment 20:462-492, 1995. Figure 4. Decarbonization or World Ascent of Hydrogen. World primary energy sources have…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

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

…ABCNews, National Geographic, and the San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/16/MN110279.DTL). Chemo synthetic Ecosystems in the Arctic and Northern Atlantic Oceans Cindy Lee Van Dover, College of William and Mary, USA We…

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.

…round about him. Ezekiel 1:27 (circa 595 b.c.) In the ancient world, electrum (Hebrew) or elektron (Greek) was the material amber. Amber, when rubbed and electrified, preferably with cat fur, moved and lifted dust…

Resources are Elastic

JH Ausubel. Earth Matters 46–47 2000 a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.

…their territory to support more people. In fact, by Roman times the English had already cleared a large fraction of their land for crops and animal husbandry. English population shows…

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.

…keyed to the information revolution and later to the electrification of travel. Exhibit 4. Growth Pulses in World Per Capita Energy Consumption (tons coal equivalent) Total world consumption is dissected…

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

…Bank, the World Wildlife Fund, Council on Foreign Relations, and Rockefeller University joined in a Great Restoration project to develop an attractive and feasible vision for the world’s forests. The…

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411–416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…Invention to Application, National Academy, Washington DC., USA, pp. 45-100. Starr, C. and Rudman, R., 1973, Parameters of technological growth, Science 182:358-364. Taylor, J.W.R., ed., 1984, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1984-1985, Jane’s,…