Social and Environmental Sustainability

• Selected Freelance Articles
  • Eating Well Without Destroying the Climate, Common Dreams, 2019.
  • Oregon must target climate change, not plastic bags, The Oregonian, 2019.
  • Advice for the climate-conscious consumer: Don't sweat the small stuff, Los Angeles Times, 2019.
  • Can we get back to facts, please?, The Oregonian, 2018.
  • The Challenge of Automation: Finding Our Place Amongst the Machines, New America Media, 2017.
  • Reframing the Here and Now: How to Fight Back on the Climate Front, Common Dreams, 2017.
  • Automation, not manufacturing, is the job loss challenge, San Jose Mercury News, 2016.
  • An Election Night Epiphany, The Oregonian, 2016.
  • Climate Change and the Consumption Trap, GreenBiz, 2011.
  • Will 10 Billion of Us Have Enough to Eat?, Sustainable Business Oregon, 2011.
  • Sustainable Consumption: For all our ingenuity, it still comes down to using less, The Oregonian, 2011.
  • Modernization of India Leaves Most of Its People Behind, San Jose Mercury News, 2005.
  • The Hidden Costs of Comparative Advantage, GreenBiz, 2005.
  • Rethinking the Offshoring Conundrum,  Business Line, 2004.
  • The Trouble with Sustainability, The Oregonian, 2004.
  • Sustainability's Labor Gap, GreenBiz, 2004.
  • Choosing the Right Technologies, GreenBiz, 2004.
  • We Need a Balanced View of Productivity, San Jose Mercury News, 2004.
  • What Kind of Productivity Do We Need?, GreenBiz, 2004.
  • Free Trade: Benefit or Peril for the Environment?, GreenBiz, 2004.
  • Global Trade = Global Warming, Salon, 2003.
  • Global Trade and Climate Change, GreenBiz, 2003.
  • Globalization's Unanswered Questions, Common Dreams, 2003.
  • Beware the Life Cycle of 'Recycled', The Christian Science Monitor, 2003.
  • Thinking Small: Globalization and the Choice of Technology, Orion Online, 2003.
  • Can Small Still Be Beautiful?, The Christian Science Monitor, 2003.
  • Can Silicon Valley Stay Relevant?, San Jose Mercury News, 2002.
  • Indians Must Take a Stand Against Violence, San Jose Mercury News, 2002.
  • Freedom in America, India Currents, 2002.
  • Combatting E-waste, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002.
  • Deadly Distraction - Kashmir Conflict Bleeds Two Poor Nations, Pacific News Service, 2002.
  • Delving into the Digital Divide, IEEE Spectrum, 2002.
  • Digital Divide and Poverty, Journal of Poverty, 2001.
  • The Consumption Trap, Business Line, 2001.
  • Linking Global Warming to the Energy Crisis, San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.
  • Wrong Solution: Technology is Not What the Third World Hungers For, San Jose Mercury News, 2001.

Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Performance

• Technical Articles
• Can Waste Reduction Move the Needle on Food Sustainability?, EM Magazine, 2017.
• Getting a Handle on Geographic Emissions, Environmental Leader, 2012.
• When Emissions are Outsourced, Environmental Leader, 2012.
• Is There a Leaner Way to Footprint?, GreenBiz, 2012.
• Six Lesser-Known Climate Facts, Environmental Leader, 2012.
• 3 Ways to Get Ahead of Climate Change, Without Ditching Oil (Yet), GreenBiz, 2012.
• Resource Efficiency vs. Carbon Reduction, Environmental Leader, 2011.
• Closing the Materials Loop, Environmental Leader, 2011.
• The Anatomy of Food Waste, Environmental Leader, 2011.
• Scope 3: Pivoting to Material Efficiency, Environmental Leader, 2011.
• Is Sustainability All about the Supply Chain?, Environmental Leader, 2011.
• Framing the Food Sustainability Challenge, Environmental Leader, 2011.
• Waste Not: The Case for Material Efficiency, Sustainable Industries, 2011.
• Research Articles
  • Comparison of Twelve Organic and Conventional Farming Systems: A Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Perspective, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2012. (Previous draft full-text here.)
  • The Climate Change and Economic Impacts of Food Waste in the United States, Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2012.
  • Measuring the Effects of Food Carbon Footprint Training on Consumers, Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 2009
  • The Energy and Carbon Intensity of Wine Distribution: A Study of Logistical Options for Delivering Wine to Consumers, Journal of Cleaner Production 2009.
  • Institutional Food Footprint: The Impact of Food Packaging, Waste, and Transportation, Meeting of the American Association of Wine Economists, 2009.
  • Red, White and Green: Investigating the Energy Intensity of Wine Distribution, International Conference on Business and Sustainability, November 2007.
  • Determining the Effects of a Food Carbon Footprint Training Tool on Consumer Knowledge, Transfer Intentions, and Environmental Self-Efficacy, International Conference on Business and Sustainability, November 2007.
  • Greening the Supply Chain: Improving Carbon Emissions in the Distribution of Food and Beverages, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2007.
  • Analyzing and Optimizing the Environmental Performance of Supply Chains, ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry, July 2007.
  • An Agent-Based Model of Trade with Distance-Based Transaction Cost, Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 2006.
  • Is Lean Necessarily Green?, 50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, July 2006.
  • Emergence of Networks in Distance-Constrained Trade, InterJournal & International Conference on Complex Systems, June 2006.
  • Using Simulation to Understand and Optimize a Lean Service Process, Spring Simulation MultiConference, April 2006.
• Book Chapters
• Food Transportation Issues and Reducing the Carbon Footprint, in Green Technologies in Food Production and Processing (ed: Y. Arcand & J. Boye), Springer, 2012.
• Emergence of Networks in Distance-Constrained Trade, in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (ed: A. Minai, et al), Springer, 2010.
• Enhancing the Environmental Performance of Supply Chains, in Positive Development: from vicious circles to virtuous cycles through built environment design (ed: J. Birkeland), Earthscan Publishers, 2008.
• Technical Reports
• Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health - Life-cycle Assessments: Methodology and Results, Environmental Working Group, 2011. (Plus, clarifying notes on beef and lamb LCAs)
• MyPlate: An Analysis of Climate Change Impact, CleanMetrics Technical Brief, 2011.
• System dynamics model of municipal recycling, policy options and social dynamics, Portland State University, 2005.
• System dynamics model of predator-prey dynamics, wildlife management and policy options, Portland State University, 2005.
• Ecological Consequences of Doubling the Atmospheric CO2 Concentration University of California, Berkeley, 1999.

• Research/Technical Articles  
  • BinView: A foundry-independent binsplit simulator, Intel Design and Test Technology Conference, May 2019.
  • Timing Verification of Dynamic Circuits, IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, Vol. 31, Issue 3, March 1996.
  • Timing Verification of Dynamic Circuits, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, May 1995.
  • Follow these guidelines to design testable ASICs, boards and systems, EDN, August 19, 1993.
  • Generalized Delay Optimization of Resistive Interconnections Through an Extension of Logical Effort, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 1993.
  • A Structured Design for Test Methodology, 11th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, April 1993.
  • ATPG Tools are a Varied Lot, Electronic Engineering Times, September 21, 1992.
  • Analysis of Ring, Cube and Tree Multimicrocomputer Systems, IEEE Region 5 Conference, April 1986.
  • A Monitor for a Dynamic Multicomputer System, First International Conference on Supercomputing Systems, December 1985.

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