Astounding family lobster

Lifewatch has named Jesse Ausubel’s ‘terrible claw’ lobster as one of the ten astounding species of the last decade (2007-2017). Hooray for Dinochelus ausubeli! Thanks to the colleagues who made…

How can EcoCity get its food?

A paper we encouraged Paul Waggoner to prepare, “How can EcoCity get its food?” is published. The paper examines the ecological footprint of an American diet on the land around…

French CoML Slide Show

The French newspaper, Liberation, assembled a slide show of photos of plankton from the Bermuda triangle cruise of the Census of Marine Life by superb photographer and scientist Russell Hopcroft….

EconTalk interview

On August 24th Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Russ Roberts on EconTalk, a weekly economics podcast. The hour-long interview, Agriculture, Technology, and the Return of Nature, can be heard here….

Book Review: ‘More from Less’ by Andrew McAfee

PHE Researcher Iddo Wernick published a review of ‘More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources?and What Happens Next’ by Andrew McAfee in…

Cal Tech Harris Distinguished lecture

Together with long-time colleague Nebosja Nakicenovic, Jesse Ausubel will give the William and Myrtle Harris Distinguished lectures in Science and Civilization on “Cars and Civilization” at the California Institute of…