Category: resource use

William H. Schlesinger
February 6, 2023 William H. Schlesingerenvironmental 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 H. Schlesinger
September 19, 2022 William H. Schlesingerconcrete, energy, faculty, resource use, sustainability, urban ecology

The Big Cave

Residential energy makes a huge contribution to energy use.

Recycling metals

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

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 H. Schlesinger
March 1, 2021 William H. Schlesingerconcrete, 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