Reflecting on the passing of Norton Zinder

Pioneering microbiologist Norton Zinder, a great friend of the Program for the Human Environment, passed away 3 February 2012. Nicholas Wade recapped Norton’s career beautifully for the New York Times….

Community Risk Profiles: Background

…at all levels, the federal government has encouraged increasing the use of risk assessment to establish priorities. Risk assessment identifies, classifies, and evaluates environmental hazards that pose threats to human well-being and…

PNAS Dematerialization

…with less harm to the environment has long moderated human impact. Does recent experience justify hope for sustaining this beneficial dematerialization, especially the decarbonization of national and global carbon emission?…

Leonardo DNA project

…Italy, and have issued a press release about the publication of a set of papers from the project in Human Evolution. Jesse Ausubel mediated the opening seminar on 2 May…

Mt paper supports Darwinian evolution

…origin over several billion years. The study follows mainstream views of human evolution. We do not propose there was a single “Adam” or “Eve”. We do not propose any catastrophic…

Iddo Breakthrough

…with the Institute, as PHE was recognized last year with the award of the Breakthrough Paradigm Prize to Jesse for his work on harnessing technology to lighten the human footprint….