Phil Metz In his wide-ranging 2016 treatise, physicist and economist Robert Ayres considers how the science of thermodynamics can be applied to economic growth and wealth creation. Ayres’s thesis is…
Karen Parker Feld In 2019, Jeff Egizi and I sought to understand the foundations of the Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) movement that has gripped investors. In The Sine Qua Non of Sustainability…
The Biophysical Economics Institute (BPEI) and Wolfspeed recently collaborated on a pioneering study that demonstrates the superior performance of silicon carbide vs. traditional silicon semiconductor devices in electric cars. When…
Charles A.S. Hall Oil, and fossil fuels generally, have a very bad reputation. They are dirty, smelly and, of greatest concern, a major source of carbon dioxide. They are the…
The Biophysical Economics Institute believes that integrating natural sciences into economics is key to addressing the primary challenges of the 21st century. Transforming the global energy infrastructure in order to…
