New site design for PHE

Our new cool-looking PHE website is up and running, thanks especially to Jason Yung and Mark Stoeckle. A brand new publications database ties everything together, thanks to diligence of Smriti…

Five new old papers

We post new scans of four of our older papers: A Review of Estimates of Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions, part of “Changing Climate: Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee”…

Cities and Infrastructure: Synthesis and Perspectives [PDF]

R Herman, JH Ausubel. pp. 1-21 in Cities and their vital systems: Infrastructure, Past, Present, and Future, National Academy, Washington, DC 1988

This article, as well as the full publication in which it originally appears, is also available on the National Academies Press website, located at https://www.nap.edu/books/0309037867/html/….

Soy el arbol!!

In Chile in early January we visited some of the world’s largest tree plantations as well as the wondrous intact indigenous forest of Isla Mocha. Thanks to Savithri Narayanan for…

Robert Kates passed away, 89

Our beloved geographer colleague and friend Robert Kates passed away 21 April 2018 at the age of 89. Jesse met Bob in 1978 during preparations for the first UN World

Whole Wheat Woman

Considered the world’s first certified organic love song, Whole Wheat Woman is now available for your listening pleasure. In the spring of 1972 Jesse Ausubel had the fun of assisting…

Stressful leisure

…on Stressful Leisure in World Magazine, a Christian weekly. We had read the January 2006 report by Mark Aguiar and Eric Hurst on Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of…