My research, and all of my thinking about sustainability, involves flows
of material and energy. Unfortunately, much more economic data is
available than the more commodity-specific information in units of tons
or bushels or atoms of carbon. One reference recommended to me simply
cannot be found. I have been looking high and low, both alone and with
the help of several expert librarians for any leads on the following
publication:
The Nature of Wealth: Discovering the Physics Within an Economic System
by Fred Lundgren and Jerome Friemel
National Organization of Raw Materials, Kansas City, Missouri: 1994.
I can't find the publication, its authors, or this organization.
Assuming it exists, I bet some one of you out there can provide a lead.
I would sure appreciate that, along with any other tips on how to get
(where to look for) information on material flows more generally.
Somewhat in line with the ongoing discussions, I believe the
dissociation of mass balance from monetary economics makes practically
all our discussions essentially skew lines in space. In particular the
word "efficient." The concept of "efficiency" within economics is at
best unrelated to, and at worst, diametrically opposed to, the
understanding that the physical scientist and the general public attach
to the word.
Thanks for any help with my reference-locating problem!
Writing from NJ, where I planted a green manure crop (cowpea and
buckwheat) on June 11 and nary a drop of rain has fallen from that day
to this.
The amazing thing to me is that those darned cowpeas are actually
growing! I can't explain it. Everything else is brown and crunchy.
Loren M.
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