Secret Forests of El Salvador

…the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples and How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?. A standard refrain was, “Maybe in the USA but…

Deep Carbon Observatory News

Way back in 2007-2009, inspired by the late Tommy Gold, Jesse Ausubel joined Robert Hazen and Russell Hemley in launching the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO). The program is now at…

DNAHouse: exploring urban environment

…a fraud.” March 30, 2010 print web BioSciences: “DNA barcoding investigations bring science to life.” January 2010 print web NBC evening news December 29, 2009 video Channel One video WNYC January 15, 2010 podcast NPR’s Science Friday: High schoolers give hot…

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

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

…largest city with perhaps 10 million people. Today Japan’s Shinkansen Corridor extending from Tokyo to Osaka houses some 80 million. Worldwide the human population is now 55 percent urban. By…

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. 

…are of no consequence or lost in the ruckus of history. To offer a flippant but telling example, Europeans, Americans, and Japanese ski much more now than we did in…

Toward Green Mobility: The Evolution of Transport

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

…“Travel characteristics in cities of developing and developed countries”. World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 230, World Bank, Washington, DC. 6Y. Zahavi (1979) The “UMOT” Project. US Department of Transportation Report No….

Special Report

…pay more money for an environmentally sensitive product,” he says. Is Heat Unhealthy? Experts can’t agree whether rising temperatures will make the world wetter or drier. Either way, the potential…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…Perdue writes about environmentally related matters for Scripps Howard News Service.) SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE 1090 Vermont Ave. N.W. Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. USA 20005 GENERAL LINE: 1.202.408.1484 FAX: 1.202.408.5950…