Category: resource use

resource use

William Schlesinger, Ph.D.
February 6, 2023 William Schlesinger, Ph.D.environmental health, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, natural habitat, resource use, sustainability, toxicology

Environmental Justice

What constitutes environmental justice seems inherently subjective…

Arsenic and Old Lace

we are bathed in, and breathe, an atmosphere with an arsenic content vastly in excess of what we have experienced during our evolutionary history as a species.

William Schlesinger, Ph.D.
September 19, 2022 William Schlesinger, Ph.D.concrete, energy, faculty, resource use, sustainability, urban ecology

The Big Cave

Residential energy makes a huge contribution to energy use.

William Schlesinger, Ph.D.
September 5, 2022 William Schlesinger, Ph.D.environmental economics, faculty, recycling, resource use, sustainability

Recycling metals

with rising human population new (virgin) sources of ore will be mined to satisfy the demand for more products.

William Schlesinger, Ph.D.
July 25, 2022 William Schlesinger, Ph.D.conservation, energy, environmental health, faculty, food, population growth, resource use

The Pursuit of Happiness

Countries such as the U.S., are likely engaging in much frivolous consumption of energy without benefits to health and happiness.

William Schlesinger, Ph.D.
March 1, 2021 William Schlesinger, Ph.D.concrete, faculty, plastics, resource use, sustainability

The Size of Our Nest

The biosphere is under pressure, when the amount of stuff produced by humans exceeds the mass of all of nature