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The New York Times reported 8 December that USA corn yields have risen 31% since 1995. Despite the drought in Illinois in the summer of 2005, that State produced a…

To lift enthusiasts of distributed generation to heaven, our 1996 paper Elektron on pp. 157-158 proposed a “splicer”, a multi-purpose household energy alliance of 5 kW, to produce electricity, heat,…

Our work on Industrial Ecology of Wood Products and Restoring Forests convinced us years ago that wood demand would continue weak for many decades. On 27 December 2005 the Wall…

Journalist Fred Pearce interviewed Jesse for New Scientist magazine. The version published in the 28 January 2006 issue of the magazine omits about 500 words of the version we post…

Robert Preston, a portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch, has started an energy investment fund based on the macro trend of de-carbonization, as explained in the 2nd paragraph of the fund…

Always alert for surprising ways that technology may spare environment, we are delighted by papers showing that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in…

Claire Williams’ book Landscapes, Genomics, and Transgenic Conifers to which we contributed “Foresters and DNA” is now available from Amazon where the site features our opening sentence: “The decoding of…

On 14 March Jesse will particiapte in a seminar organized by the New York Times about climate change. PDF Poster…

Superb stories on the Census of Marine Life appeared 13 February in the leading German weekly, Der Spiegel, and 22 February in the leading Brazilian weekly, Veja….

China confirmed its leadership in new transport technology with an announcement 13 March 2006 that it will build the world’s 2nd commercial maglev between Shanghai and Hangzhou, 175 km apart….