Foreword for book on Squat Lobsters

…sustaining us. Anyone reading this masterwork will come to know that squat lobsters are not only Galatheoids and Chyrostolids, they are rubies and sapphires, set here in a scientific crown…

CoML – Wild Chronicles

National Geographic’s weekly tv show Wild Chronicles featured the Census of Marine Life, including a few comments from Jesse….

Land Cover scans

In response to requests for the pie charts from our paper Restoring the Forests (Foreign Affairs, 2000), we post here two scanned pdfs showing the past and prospective changes in…

PAX

Our long-standing interest in science and diplomacy bears fruit in the growing use of Asi Burak’s interactive video game Peacemaker, supported by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. The Peres Center for…

Making Nature Useless

…Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015). Some coverage at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/ https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless…

Austin decarbonization

On 25 April Jesse participated in a symposium on Priorities in the Geosciences at the University of Texas, Austin and spoke on “Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years“….