Visions of the 21st Century
…Make Garbage Disappear? Through the magic of recycling and modern alchemy, we will move swiftly toward a world without waste by IVAN AMATO Whoever said “waste not, want not” hasn’t…
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The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products
IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Journal of Forestry
98 (10):
8–14
2000
…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…
Dis the Threat Industry
JH Ausubel. Technological Forecasting and Society Change
62 (2):
119–120
1999
The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…
Trans-Atlantic DNA survey reveals overlooked avian diversity in scientific heartland
…Ernst Mayr compiled a world list of 8,616 species, which he judged to be “within 5 percent and certainly 10% of the final total”. The current IOC World Bird List…
Godfather – The Scientist
…brain smoked with hatred and wild visions of clubbing the two young men to death with his old wooden slide rule. “They have made a fool of me.” He paused…
Forests, Farms, and Materials
…Providing vision for resource management emerges from learning how natural systems have functioned over many millennia. Eight thousand years ago, when humans played only bit parts in the world ecosystem,…
First World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) day
A child of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, today is the first World Ocean Passive Acoustics Monitoring (WOPAM) day. The IQOE leaders, including Miles Parsons and Steve Simpson, have prepared…
Building DNA libraries: one-quarter world birds so far
As of October 11, 2008 researchers have deposited 14,594 DNA barcodes in BOLD representing 2,586 avian species, 26% of world’s 9,933 birds. You can browse taxonomic coverage to date at…
Next up, bees
On 15 may 2008 an international assembly of bee experts gathered at York University and announced a new initiative to DNA barcode world’s bees. Some snippets from news reports: “According…
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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,…