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.

…as when bacteria produce a new enzyme to dismantle a sleepy component of their broth, then we face a problem. New growth pulses suddenly pop up, growing from the prior….

Daedalus, Summer 1996

…disappear but are renewed in some larger, more international context. And for each of the different notions of critical resources, technology will make possible new reserves and new substitutions and…

Community Risk Profiles: Appendices

Appendix A STEERING GROUP Jesse H. Ausubel, Chair Director Program for the Human Environment The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue, Box 234 New York, NY 10021 Tel: 212-327-7917 Fax: 212-327-7519…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…some of the likely main components of the program. History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) In 1497 English fishers returned from Newfoundland with news that “the sea there is swarming…

Directions

…in the area: Kinney Parking:  450 East 63rd Street (between York & 1st Avenue) Greenberg Garage: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center (entrance at 68th Street, east of York Avenue)…

Special Report

…sold poorly. The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, a government-industry group working on new technologies, hopes to design by 2004 a midsize car that gets 80 miles a…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

A column about us, “Optimistic about our environmental future”, is syndicated in many newspapers across the country. By MITZI PERDUE, Scripps Howard News Service September 11, 2000 As director of…