PNAS Dematerialization

…an improving environmental performance. Chinese dematerialization slowed a bit, but did not cease by any report, and the rise of its intensity of impact either slowed or reversed. Surprisingly, apparently

DNA Barcodes book

…drafted a foreword, The Beep of the Barcode of Life, for the forthcoming book about DNA barcodes of John Kress and David Erickson. The final version will differ a bit

Forests, Farms, and Materials

…Providing vision for resource management emerges from learning how natural systems have functioned over many millennia.  Eight thousand years ago, when humans played only bit parts in the world ecosystem,…

Restoring the Forests

DG Victor, JH Ausubel. Foreign Affairs 79 (6): 127–144 2000

…not formal, strictly protected nature areas. To date, much of the debate over protecting forests and wilderness has focused on formally demarcated and legally protected areas. Such protection rightly safeguards…

The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products

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

…use of residues, consumption of wood for pulp exceeded that for lumber, which stayed nearly level. Fuelwood consumption nearly disappeared only to reemerge during the Depression and the oil shocks…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…the night came first and dramatically. Penetration of the technology came later and, as usual, slowly. US cities, as shown earlier, achieved full illumination only abou t 1940. The period…

A Turn for the Better

…pollution has dropped steadily, spurred on by increasingly strict environmental laws. These improvements haven’t come to the world’s developing nations, from Central America to China, where political leaders often seek…

Godfather – The Scientist

…all a farce. The black bile, sourly bitter, rose in Regelmässig’s throat, overflowing through tightly clenched teeth, and dribbling on to the keyboard below him. He took some old printout…

CoML Baseline Report and a Lyd og Video

…a film from CoML’s June 2003 MIR submersible dives to the mid-Atlantic Ridge, as part of the prime time program ‘Schoedinger’s Cat’. The short Lyd og Video captures the 4,500…