…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…
…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…
…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,…
…safety regulation. Ergonomics 1988;31:407-428. [16] Russell JC. British Medieval Population. Albuquerque NM: Univ. of New Mexico, 1948. [17] del Castillo BD. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521. New York:…
…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…
…behavior. New York City and many other parts of America have experienced dramatic drops in crime in the past few years. Police have quickly seized credit. Maybe they should share…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…