True Progress

Innovations

A Spiral Methanol Microreformer for Portable Fuel Cells

Solar Shades for Climate Change Management

The Paths of Future Progress

World Metal Consumption and the Path to Space Mining

Analysis

The Earth Can Feed, Clothe, and House 12 Billion People

Waste is a Failure: Heat

A Proposal for an Integrated Risk Management Application

Population Growth, Land, and You, Part 2

Risk

Why Microwaves and Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer

Real Risk and Perceived Risk

Assigning a Value to Life

The Fallacy of Human Error

Economics

Inflation, Technological Innovation, and the Prices of Automobiles

Free Markets are Best, But Most Markets Aren’t Free

Apples to Apples: Defining an Energy-Based Standard for Everything We Do

How Would a Gold Standard Actually Work?

Policy

Oil and Gas Conservation as an Investment for Our Future

What’s Really Wrong with Math Education

An Analysis of The US Government’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program

A Letter to the President-Elect of the United States, Part 2

Development

Mass Philanthropy and World Development

On the River in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi Consumers Have to be Sharp

Stories from Peace Corps Guinea, 1998-2000

Science

Make a Handout Like Edward Tufte

The Aim of Science