Andrew Johnson departs

Research Intern Andrew Johnson moved to Washington, D.C. to join the State Department. He can still be reached through the Program for the Human Environment.

Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans

We post “Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans Past”, the published version of Jesse’s opening speech to the October 2005 Census of Marine Life conference on Oceans Past (see What’s…

We welcome Mark Stoeckle

We welcome Mark Stoeckle, MD as a Guest Investigator to the Program for the Human Environment. Dr. Stoeckle is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is…

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…