Energy and Climate

…of their conditions of evolution.   Like computers, to grow larger, the energy system must now shrink in size and cost.  The successful decarbonization of the energy system, the key to the alleviation…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…cited AUSUBEL, J.H. 1996. Can technology spare the earth? American Scientist 84:166-178. AUSUBEL, J.H. 2001. The great reversal: Nature’s chance to restore land and sea. Technology in Society 22:289-301. MARCHETTI, C. 1979. On energy…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…and Development Review 22(3):531-545, 1996. [xiii] www.swissmetro.com [xiv] J. H. Ausubel, The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects, Fisheries 26 (7): 33-36, 2001. [xv] D. G. Victor and J. H. Ausubel, Restoring the Forests, Foreign Affairs 79(6): 127-144, 2000….

Resources are Elastic

JH Ausubel. Earth Matters 46–47 2000 a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.

…limit or ceiling. In short, from a niche point of view, resources are the limits to numbers. But access to resources depends on technologies. When the animals can invent new technologies, such…

The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products

IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Journal of Forestry 98 (10): 8–14 2000

…of US potential. Science 199:1041-48. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, 1994. Manufacturing consumption of energy. US Department of Energy Report DOE/EIA-0512(91). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND ET AL. 1995. Economic considerations in forest…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…Crum, The Age Structure of the Corporate System, University of California, Berkeley, 1953. 38 – JH Ausubel, The Liberation of the Environment, Daedalus 125(3):I–17; JH Ausubel, Can Technology Spare the Earth?, American Scientist 84(2):166–178. 39…

The Environment for Future Business

JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 8 (1): 39–52 1998 This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.

…Companies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 39:11-22. Ausubel, J.H., A. Gruebler, and N. Nakicenovic, 1988, “Carbon Dioxide Emissions in a Methane Economy,” Climatic Change 12(3): 245-263. Ausubel, J.H. and C. Marchetti, 1996, “Elektron: Electrical…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…Forecasting and Social Change 52:1-30. Matthews, A. 1992. Where the Buffalo Roam. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. Meyer, P. 1994. Bi-logistic growth.Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47:89-102. Mitchell, B. R. 1980. European Historical Statistics 1750-1975, 2nd ed. New…

Malthus And Graduate Students: Checks On Burgeoning Ranks Of Ph.D.’s

JH Ausubel. The Scientist 10 (3): 11 1996

…#3, pg.11 , February 5, 1996)(Copyright © The Scientist, Inc.)The Scientist, 3600 Market Street, Suite 450, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.[This article appeared on The Scientist web page, used with permission – psm]….

Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets

JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 50: 113–131 1995

…holidays”2 -1,744 -8,534 -10,278 -720 -3,280 -4,000 Shorter/Longer Work career3 +11,674 -13,779 -2,105 -2,675 +19,268 +16,593 TOTAL -26,830 -34,810 -61,640 -22,240 -710 -22,950 1Changes in hours worked per week (lower…