How can EcoCity get its food?

A paper we encouraged Paul Waggoner to prepare, “How can EcoCity get its food?â€Β is published. The paper examines the ecological footprint of an American diet on the land around…

Our article on incorporating a known amount of non-fish DNA to allow better quantification of the fish DNA present in a seawater sample appears in the journal Environmental DNA.

…Stoeckle, Jesse H. Ausubel, Michael Coogan, first published: 08 December 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.376 While our paper focuses on fish, we believe the approach of “spiking” samples collected in nature with known…

Simulating the Academy: Toward Understanding Colleges and Universities as Dynamic Systems

JH Ausubel, R Herman, WF Massy, SV Massy. What Higher Education is Doing Right, W.F. Massy and J.W. Meyerson, eds., Princeton University 107–120 1997 120

…of our institutions of higher learning as dynamic systems are needed. This paper proposes one such tool. The Need Overemphasizing higher education’s importance in America is hard. It is a…

Bi-Logistic Growth

PS Meyer. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47: 89–102 1994

This paper first appeared in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, published by Elsevier Science Inc., New York. Introduction Many processes in biology and other fields exhibit S-shaped growth….

Industrial Ecology of Cadmium

Progress in Industrial Ecology published the Ausubel-Wernick-Barrett-Waggoner paper Industrial Ecology for Leverage to Let Loose Less Cadmium . We thank Peter Elias, who helped us start work on cadmium back…

“Heresies” continued news and blog coverage

Jesse’s recent paper, “Renewable and Nuclear Heresies” continues to get a lot of news coverage. For more interesting reading, the journal PNAS has made the full text of Thomas Gold’s…

18 December 2012 Farmland Talk

Jesse’s short lecture on Peak Farmland is now in our regular Talk’s db, and the PHE paper Peak Farmland and the Prospects for Sparing Nature in our regular Bibliography db….