Cosmos Prize photos

…Prize web page now has excellent photos and other material about the award of the 2011 prize to the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life. See: https://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/album_e.html…

Tom Malone

…which Jesse was the scribe. In 1984 Jesse portrayed Tom in a poem, “Tom Malone here.” For a summary of Tom’s many important roles, see https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-development/news/in-memoriam-thomas-f-malone/ Tom’s tutelage in international…

TreeParser paper published

…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…

Garrison & Levinson transport book

…good works, the U MN group maintains a useful page about the Kepler of transportation science, the late Yacov Zahavi:Â https://www.surveyarchive.org/zahavi.html Zahavi had a tremendous, lasting influence on the thinking…

Making Nature Useless

…Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015). Some coverage at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/ https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless…

Oceans song by Bruno Coulais

Galatee’s Oceans film featured a haunting song by Bruno Coulais with lyrics by Gabriel Yacoub. The song with images from the film is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3K1GnGEmPo Ocean Will Be Even though…

Galatee Seasons film segment

The new film of Jacques Perrin and Galatee Productions, The Seasons, is scheduled for release 27 January 2016. A 1-minute promotional segment is available at https://vimeo.com/133827355 See also https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=228541.html The…

RFF Seminar on Breakthrough decoupling report

…the video box & use slider).  The video begins with Linus Blomqvist’s introduction of the report and ends with Q&A involving Linus, Jesse, and Tom Lovejoy. https://www.rff.org/events/event/2015-09/reforming-today-s-conservation-and-environmental-policies-tomorrow-s-scarcity      …