Michael Shellenberger’s new book

We are long-time admirers of Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, who co-founded The Breakthrough Institute in 2003. TBI award Jesse Ausubel its annual prize in 2014, and Iddo Wernick has…

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?…

New Scientist Magazine

Journalist Fred Pearce interviewed Jesse for New Scientist magazine. The version published in the 28 January 2006 issue of the magazine omits about 500 words of the version we post…

Decarbonization

Car & Driver magazine’s July 2012 issue features our work about decarbonization on pp. 32-33 in a column touting the potential of natural gas to fuel vehicles….

Merril Lynch Decarbonization

Robert Preston, a portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch, has started an energy investment fund based on the macro trend of de-carbonization, as explained in the 2nd paragraph of the fund…

Census reviews of China, European seas

Valuable papers continue to stream from the Census of Marine Life. We note: Liu JY (2013) Status of Marine Biodiversity of the China Seas. PLoS ONE 8(1): e50719. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050719 and…

Added section on Daedalus

Added section on Daedalus – The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences special issue on “the liberation of the environment.” We also updated our list of publications….

Viagra and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Always alert for surprising ways that technology may spare environment, we are delighted by papers showing that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in…

French Film Festival in Richmond VA

On Saturday 26 March 2011 the annual French Film Festival in Richmond VA organized by Peter and Francoise Kirkpatrick featured Galatee’s film Oceans. Over 1000 people filled the magnificent Byrd…