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…

Long Now Foundation January 2015

The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel, “Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities,” Tuesday 13 January 2015 at the

Economics columnist Ronald Bailey

Economics columnist Ronald Bailey runs an on-line essay about ecological overshoot that draws on PHE research: https://reason.com/rb/rb062602.shtml…

From time to time

From time to time colleagues inquiry about the H:C ratio of wood. Click here for the explanation: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Wood_HC_Ratio.pdf We notice that an older (1993) paper has been scanned: “Flat Organizations…

Indicator Vector (Klee Diagram) software

Mark Stoeckle and Cameron Coffran have posted the software for the indicator vector/Klee method to analyze and display large sets of aligned sequences–it readily displays patterns among >10K sequences in…

IE Reflections posted

We notice that the 1992 paper “Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium” (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) has been published online: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/879 We also have a copy on our server:…

Trinity School TeaBOL

The Trinity School TeaBOL project is featured in cover article for December/January issue of The Helix, an Australian science magazine for children 10+…

We post an essay

We post an essay on professional master’s degrees in sciences by Jesse and education expert Sheila Tobias: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/AusubelTobias.pdf…

Global Warming and the Industrial System

Our colleague Iddo Wernick‘s case study “Global Warming and the Industrial System” is published by the International Relations and Security Network, Zürich, Switzerland.