Reliance on population growth is a hollow and blunt instrument to ensure economic growth
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Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat
agriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat
What Makes a Healthy Ecosystem?
[We need] a report card that grades plant production, soil organic matter, biodiversity and nutrient balance against our best measures of what they would be in a world without humans.
The Fabric for Our Lives
I asked myself whether cotton vs. linen shirts, or nylon or denim pants, left a greater footprint on the environment.
On Losing Your Marbles
Several new studies suggest that air pollutants in general—gases as well as particles—may be responsible for widespread cognitive decline in the human population
Replication in global change ecology
The opposition to global warming theory would melt in the face of an experiment with five Earth’s receiving no treatment and five Earth’s with CO2 added to the atmosphere
Technosphere workshop
If you are interested in the technosphere and are in the UK or environs, consider the workshop described below. The questions it will address include many of relevance to the topic of this blog. Technosphere:Continue reading
Guns and Roses
The Clean Water Act was designed to keep dangerous things out of our environment; a little bit of rational firearms regulation would do likewise.
Inside the EPA
The SAB is no place to serve if you value your time and potential contributions to protecting the environment of our nation
Bill Schlesinger
climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental policy, faculty, renewable energy
climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental policy, faculty, renewable energy
Carbon Fees
A carbon fee program would preserve the personal choice of how we live our lives
3.5 The Rule of Provision
If a system is defined by the collective actions of its parts, one may still ask why the parts should cooperate to create collective effects? And, especially if there are very many parts in the system,Continue reading