Diffusion of Social Phenomena

…processes follow a sequence of replacements or substitutions: new ideas for old, new labor patterns for old, new technologies for old. The diffusion of new technologies follows common patterns that…

National Material Metrics for Industrial Ecology [PDF]

IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition 157-174 1999 This paper was originally published in the journal Resources Policy Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 189-198 (1995), Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, England.

National Materials Flows and the Environment [PDF]

IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 20: 463–492 1995 Republished in Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition, P. Schulze (ed.), National Academy, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 157-174.

PNAS publishes Forests paper

The PNAS has published our new paper “Returning forests analyzed with the forest identity.” We also post a press release about it from the U. of Helsinki and a map…

Passing of marine biologist Ron O’Dor

…curious, good-humored colleague.  Jesse first met Ron in December 1997 at a meeting at the New England Aquarium to assess the feasibility of censusing the “non-fish nekton.” Ron represented the

Bob Herman

…materialization, dematerialization, and cities. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7Yiedy4AAAAJ&hl=en The site makes the scope, significance and impact of Bob’s work accessible to a new generation. Impressively, more than 15 years after Bob passed away,…