Finish for trains and start for maglevs?

The French “train a grand vitesse” (TGV) attained a record speed for a train on wheels of 568 km/hr on 31 March 2007. The history of technology shows that when…

Stimulated by a request

Stimulated by a request from the Economist magazine for an article on sustainability for their 6 July issue, Iddo Wernick updates our classic figure on materials use and dematerialization in…

Industrial ecology in Bangladesh

The Daily Star newspaper, Dhaka, Bangladesh, runs an article about Industrial Ecology that mentions our ideas about foamed glass as a construction material that captured the imagination of Ivan Amato…

Barcode High

The November/December 2011 online issue of The Scientist published an article by Mark on the High School Barcode Project, Barcode High….

Australian energy talk

On 16 April Jesse delivers “The Future Environment for Energy Business” to the APPEA conference in Adelaide. Here are the figures….

Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer

Using more recent data, we updated our analysis of Death and the Human Environment published in 2001 on competition between cancers and cardiovascular conditions as the leading cause of death…