PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

(biochar). submitted to Journal of Water and Health (in review). 

Kearns J, Wellborn LS, Summers RS, and Knappe DRU. Removal of pesticides from drinking water using indigenous charcoal 

adsorbents. Proceedings of the American Water Works Association Water Quality and Technology Conference, November 2010. 

Cervini-Silva J, Kearns J, and Banfield JF. Steady-State Dissolution Kinetics of Mineral Iron Phosphate in the Presence of 

Desferrioxamine-B and Oxalate ligands at pH = 4-6 and T=11-40  ̊C. manuscript in prep. 

Kearns J and Flanagan J. Self-reliance in water treatment: Providing safe drinking water to communities using charcoal filtration to 

remove pesticides. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Gross National Happiness, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2007.  

Kearns J, Cervini-Silva J, Banfield JF. Siderophores may simultaneously influence iron and phosphorus bioavailability in soils. 

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2004 vol. 68 (11) pp. A395-A395. 

Kearns J, Cervini-Silva, J, Fournelle, J, Schloss, P, Williamson, L, Reuss, R, Handlesman, J, Banfield, J. F. Mechanisms of 

Biogeochemical Influence on Phosphorus Bioavailablity in Cold Terrestrial Ecosystems. Proceedings of the American Geophysical 

Union, Fall Meeting 2003. 

OTHER MEDIA PUBLICATIONS 

Appropriate Technologies in Water Resources and Reports Available Through Aqueous Solutions (www.aqsolutions.org) 

Kearns J, Geheran J, Reents N. Aqueous Solutions’ Annual Report 2008. Spring 2009. 

Kearns J, A simple barrel kiln for household charcoal/biochar production. Aqueous Solutions, Winter 2008/2009. 

Kearns J, Five-Gallon Bucket Filter for Drinking Rooftop Rainwater. Permaculture Activist Magazine, Issue #69, Autumn 2008. 

Kearns J, Saquing C, Knappe DRU. Charcoals: An Electron Microscopy Study. Aqueous Solutions, August 2008. 

Kearns J, Flanagan J, Reents N, and Seef TP. Aqueous Solutions’ Annual Report 2007. Spring 2008. 

Kearns J. Simple Field Tests for Water Quality. Aqueous Solutions, January 2008. 

Kearns J. Agrichemicals of Concern in Northern Thailand. Aqueous Solutions, December 2007. 

Kearns J. Pesticide Use in Thailand and the US: Ecological and Human Health Effects. Aqueous Solutions, December 2007. 

Kearns J, Agrichemicals of Concern in West Bengal, India. Available online through Aqueous Solutions, Fall 2007. 

Kearns J, Charcoal Filtration Basics. Available online through Aqueous Solutions, Fall 2007. 

Kearns J, Constructing an Adobe Kiln for Making Charcoal. Available online through Aqueous Solutions, Fall 2007. 

Kearns J. DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Water Purification: Basic System Design. Available online through Aqueous Solutions, Fall 2007. 

Kearns J. Drinking water purification using homemade charcoal: possibilities for self-reliance in water treatment. Permaculture 

Activist Magazine, Issue #65, Autumn 2007.

Kearns J, Zawacki J. Drinking water purification using homemade charcoal: possibilities for local self-reliance in water treatment. 

Technical paper for Pun Pun Organic Farm and Seed Saving Center, Panya Sustainable Living Project and You Sabai Thai Cooking 

School communities. Ban Mae Jo, Chiang Mai, Thailand. March 2007. 

General Environment, Sustainability and Development 

Kearns J. Exposing the Bi-Partisan Myth of Clean Coal. Published online at Matador Change Magazine, October 2008.  

Kearns, J, Hand-up or handout? The case against microloans. Published online at Brave New Traveler Magazine, December 2007. 

Kearns, J. How local self-reliance will overthrow the system. Published online at Brave New Traveler Magazine, November 2007. 

Kearns J, Why GDP says little about authentic happiness. Published online at Brave New Traveler Magazine, October 2007. 

Kearns J. The crisis of too much energy. Published online at Brave New Traveler Magazine, June 2007. 

Ecological Footprint Projects and Reports 

Kearns J (contributor):  Living Planet Report 2006. WWF, UNEP WCMC, Global Footprint Network, pubs. October 2006. 

Kearns J (contributor): Africa’s Ecological Footprint—Ecological Capital and Human Well-being. Swiss Development Corporation 

and Global Footprint Network, September 2006. 

Wackernagel M, Rees W and Kearns J (either co-author or contributor). Our Ecological Footprint—Reducing Human Impact on the 

Earth (second edition), New Society pubs. (in prep.). 

Kearns J, Straw Bale Building and the Possibility of Global Social and Ecological Transformation. The CASBA Journal: Newsletter 

of the California Straw Building Association. Volume XI, Number 3. July, August, September 2006.  

Kearns J (contributor): The Ecological Footprint—Living Well Within the Means of Nature, Ecological Footprint promotional 

material. Global Footprint Network and Swiss Development Corporation, pubs. 2006. 

Wackernagel M, Moran D, Goldfinger S, Kearns J. Ecological Footprint Accounting—Comparing Earth’s Biological Capacity with 

an Economy’s Resource Demand, in The Future of Sustainability, Keiner M, ed., 2006. 

Kearns J, Wermer P, Killackey B. Distribution Line Ecological Footprint Calculator, an MS Excel-based program for calculating the 

Ecological Footprint of electrical power distribution systems. Global Footprint Network, pubs., prepared for BC Hydro (Canadian 

electrical power utility), April 2006. 

Kearns J (contributor): The Ecological Footprint—Answering Common Questions. Global Footprint Network, March 2006. 

Kearns J, Wackernagel M, Wermer P, Murray M, Bolen N. Proposal to Develop a Web-Based Personal Ecological Footprint 

Calculator and Interactive Sustainability Scenario Building Interface. Proposal submitted to Environmental Protection Agency, 

Victoria, Australia by Global Footprint Network, February 2006. 

Kearns J and Wackernagel M. Critical Response Paper: A Preliminary Review of and Some Responses to ‘Sustainable Consumption 

and Production – Development of an Evidence Base: Study of Ecological Footprinting’, 2006, Final Report prepared for Department 

for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), United Kingdom, by Risk and Policy Analysts, Ltd. Critical Response prepared by 

Global Footprint Network, February, 2006. 

Kearns J (contributor): Tracking Europe’s Ecological Footprint, in The European Environment—State and Outlook 2005. European 

Environment Agency, pubs. 2005. 

Kearns J, Vishwanath N, Al Hoori S, Ferguson B, Luk A, Ryan S, Wu P, Stolarick K, Lange D, Weinberg R, Wackernagel M. 

Interactive Global Ecological Footprint and Sustainability Scenario Modeler, a web-based educational application for modeling 

potential future Ecological Overshoot conditions given user-defined inputs regarding population, resource consumption, and 

technological efficiency. Global Footprint Network and the Department of Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University. 

December 2005. 

Travel Writing and Other Topics 

Kearns J. The Tao of Vagabond Travel. Published online at Brave New Traveler Magazine, June 2008. 

Kearns J. Five reasons why ‘slow travel’ beats ‘going on vacation’. Brave New Traveler Magazine, October 2007. 

Kearns J, Let us not be ‘Ordinary Intellectuals’ (on social responsibility in science) in book:  What We Think: Young Voters Speak 

Out. Robbins D and Grabow R, eds. 2004.