The Virtual Ecology of Industry

JH Ausubel. Journal of Industrial Ecology 1 (1): 10–11 1997

…long sought to channel every input into profitable output. Chemical engineers already design and test refineries in detail on computers before companies buy the first length of pipe. Energy engineers…

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.

counterpart in 1900. In the US, likely continuing fall in intensity of use of forest products should more than counter the effects of growing population and affluence, leading to an…

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…

Restoring the Forests

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

…place. Studies by forest experts in Finland reveal that by the 1980s, wooded areas were increasing in all major temperate and boreal forests. These mid- and high-latitude forests account for…

The Census of the Fishes: An Update

…brilliant, hungry and thus motivated samplers of their environments and may provide efficient and cheap pictures of the distribution of marine life that could both guide and check other approaches….

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…

How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…far, in a free online service (https://www.eol.org/). “There are expectations of 8 to 50 million more species out there that we haven’t identified yet,” Edwards said. Other experts’ estimates of…

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)

…averaged about one hour of walking per day. The essence is that the transport system and the number of people basically determine covered land.[xii] Greater wealth enables people to buy higher…

Manifesto for Clean Ocean

…Ocean Manifesto” https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2436864685283/a-clean-ocean-by-2030-un-experts-clean-ocean-manifesto SciTech Daily A Clean Ocean by 2030: UN Experts’ “Clean Ocean Manifesto” https://scitechdaily.com/a-clean-ocean-by-2030-un-experts-clean-ocean-manifesto/ Podcast, Germany #4: Die Zukunft der Meere – mit Angelika Brandt https://www.podcast.de/episode/587607889/4-die-zukunft-der-meere-mit-angelika-brandt Earth.com, United…

Added online reprints Malthus

Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…