We post a short general talk Jesse gave in the spring about the Census of Marine Life, “The Census of Marine Life: A Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”.
Our work about sparing land for nature is mentioned in the 26 August issue of Time Magazine on How to Save the Earth.
We post a PDF version of “Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert”
The Economist magazine has an article in the current survey on the environment that draws heavily from our research and our friends at IIASA: “Working miracles: Can technology save the planet?”
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2002/07/06/working-miracles
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: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/AusubelPNAS1992.pdf 
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
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 for Earth Science.”
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/FlatOrg.pdf
Economics columnist Ronald Bailey runs an on-line essay about ecological
overshoot that draws on PHE research:
https://reason.com/rb/rb062602.shtml
The paper
“A framework for sustainability science: A renovated IPAT identity”
is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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 the US economy through the
year 2000. Here is the powerpoint file:
IOU_FIGURE_061002_1.ppt, here is the excel file:
IOU_061002.xls.
We welcome Andrew Johnson, our new research intern!