Okeanos Explorer

…Nantucket and the Canadian border, LT Brian Kennedy was gracious enough to give PHE’s Alan Curry a tour of the research vessel, including a look at their newest remotely-operated-vehicle, Deep…

Bar Code of Life

…science. (Jan 2005) download PDF (English) download PDF (Portugues) download Powerpoint Top Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life Works with fragments. Works for all stages of life. Unmasks look-alikes. Reduces ambiguity….

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. 

…significant amounts continue to dissipate, creating chances for unintentional ingestion.6 Hippocrates recognized acute lead toxicity in ancient Greek miners. The sweetening and preserving of sour wines with lead–containing additives began…

The Environment for Future Business

JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 8 (1): 39–52 1998 This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.

…Company announced an advance in short-wavelength solid-state light emitters in the blue and green spectral regions using zinc-selenium lasers. These could significantly advance efficiency, penetrating the market for displays and…

Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110–134 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.

…once the interface between mechanical and electrical power had been i nvented, the niche for expansion proved immense.3 Power for the Workshop Since the Middle Ages, water wheels had provided…

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

JH Ausubel. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181–188 1991

…could not have a rail siding to deliver its coal supply nor the acreage to store its coal. Oil had a higher energy density than coal–plus the advantage of flowing…

The Program for the

The Program for the Human Environment goes online, with a simple web page hosted by an SGI Indy (www.rockefeller.edu/phe)….

IE Reflections posted

We notice that the 1992 paper “Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium” (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) has been published online: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/879 We also have a copy on our server:…