…and for science, motivate the effort to mobilize the resources needed to conduct a worldwide Census of Marine Life. The process began in March of 1997 with a gathering of…
…processes follow a sequence of replacements or substitutions: new ideas for old, new labor patterns for old, new technologies for old. The diffusion of new technologies follows common patterns that…
…of toxic waste. The really bad news is that most of the planet’s 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the…
New York Times environment reporter Andrew Revkin has launched a new “dot earth” blot with an entry about population that draws on the work of the Program for the Human…
COUNCIL FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CAST) NEWS RELEASE New Study By Leading Agricultural Group Proposes That a More Crowded Planet May Be Simultaneously Better Fed and Greener AMES, IA…
DNA Barcoding: Bulletin of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) program at the University of Guelph A useful newsletter that shares information on DNA barcoding initiatives, terrestrial and marine, animal,…
…rather than later.” In a breakthrough application of DNA barcoding, reported 3 February in the NY Times, “New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers.” New York’s lead owes…
The New York Times mentions the Sloan Foundation’s Limits to Knowledge program and quotes Jesse….
On 26 April the New York Times ran a profile by Nicholas Wade about the span of Jesse’s career, “Commodore of a Global DNA Census. 
Finnish analyst Lauri Hetemaki documents a powerful example of Dematerialization in the U.S. newsprint market. For more information, see, Hetemäki, L. 2005, Chapter 6.2.2 “The U.S. newsprint market”, pp. 77-80,…