…* Recent data shows that millions of people do change their diets in response to health, price, and other pressures, and that they are capable of changing their diet even…
…I wonder whether the self–mortifying West (or North) will be rich or expansive enough to maintain science. The United States and some of the other European offshoots, Canada and Australia,…
…hydrocarbon fuels. The trumpets blare that, a population grows from six to 10 billion over coming decades, humans will demand so much of everything that prices will rocket, squabbles over…
…125 (3) (Summer 1996). 16Jesse H. Ausubel, “Energy and Environment: The Light Path,” Energy Systems and Policy 15 (3) (1991): 181-188. 17N. Nakicenovic, L. Bodda, A. Grübler, and P.-V. Gilli,…
We have posted the paper Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms….
The Program for the Human Environment goes online, with a simple web page hosted by an SGI Indy (www.rockefeller.edu/phe)….
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:…
…far, in a free online service (https://www.eol.org/). “There are expectations of 8 to 50 million more species out there that we haven’t identified yet,” Edwards said. Other experts’ estimates of…
…have aided and abetted is gaining attention. An AP story in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-04-10-super-grid_x.htm A Science Daily news item: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030320073732.htm The final report for the National Energy Supergrid workshop: https://www.energy.ece.uiuc.edu/SuperGridReportFinal.pdf…
…Awards <https://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html> program to support organizations using technology and innovative approaches to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. A project at the Smithsonian Institution<https://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html#consortium> devoted to reducing illegal wildlife…