Does Energy Policy Matter?
…of fuel cells. A Canadian company, Ballard in Vancouver, is generally regarded as the world leader, but it is early in the game. Stimulating competition in fuel cell design and…
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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
…filling available geographical niches, the only way to expand is intensification. Agriculture essentially reduces the amount of land needed to support a person. The fruits of agriculture consequently support the…
CASE STUDY : Comparing Apples and Supercomputers: Evaluating Environmental Risk in Silicon Valley
…reports from high-tech factory workers, we formed what is now the Santa Clara Center on Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH) in 1977. However, most political leaders, high- tech executives, the…
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…
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.
…requires micro- or zero emissions per unit of economic activity to maintain or enhance environmental quality In other words, Americans need to clean processes by more than one order of…
Technical Progress and Climatic Change
JH Ausubel. Energy Policy
23 (4/5):
411–416
1995
Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.
…is firm: some kind of take-off, albeit bumpy, did occur about 1700, and by 1900 the level of activity was an order of magnitude higher (Figure 1). Figure 1. Decadal…
The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products
IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Journal of Forestry
98 (10):
8–14
2000
…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…
Students Use DNA Barcodes to Unmask “Mislabeled” Fish at Grocery Stores, Restaurants
…of Life: www.eol.org Barcode of Life Database: www.barcodinglife.org Consortium for the Barcode of Life: barcoding.si.edu Barcoding marine species: www.marinebarcoding.org FishBol: www.fishbol.org Barcoding blog: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/TenReasonsBarcoding.pdf “Barcode of Life” Scientific American, October 2008: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/BarcodeScientificAmerican.2008.10.pdf…
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.
…The annual worldwide production of most of the toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and mercury, has increased by 2–3 orders of magnitude over the past 1–2…
The Census of the Fishes: An Update
…example open-ocean moorings, bottom-mounted moorings, constant depth or yo-yo’ed towed sensors, neutrally-buoyant floats, drifters, single-ship/multi-ship bases for AUV’s and ROV’s, and air-deployment. Many such approaches, already available or in development,…