Jesse’s autobiography published & on sale

Di Renzo has now published Jesse Ausubel’s short autobiography. The book spans Jesse’s roots, childhood, and education, and then the major chapters of his career: climate change, industrial ecology, Census…

Toward Green Mobility: The Evolution of Transport

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti, PS Meyer. European Review 6 (2): 143–162 1998

…poles. Even today human rickshaws carry freight and passengers in Calcutta and elsewhere. Horses can run faster and longer than people. They can sustain 20 km per hour for several

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.

…of energy. Electrical systems can add visual pollution with their network of towers, wires, and poles. Militant Greens already dynamite pylons and will accept no new structures. New technologies can…