The honey bee has been experiencing hardship over the past decade through a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder. Fortunately, according to economists Randal Rucker and Walter Thurman in a PERC Policy Series, free markets ensure honey bee numbers stay healthy. Listen to a podcast by CFACT to learn how beekeepers, bees, and farmers are working together here.
PERC Senior Fellow Randy Simmons and Del Gardner are the editors ofAquanomics, a book that examines existing water markets and explores policy changes to allow more water rights and perhaps avoid the often predicted "water crises" of the future.
The hottest and thirstiest parts of the U.S. are over-forested. Federal protection has stocked semiarid regions of public land with several billion trees too many. And day after day these excess trees deplete a precious natural resource—water.
In Kenya, Maasai herdsmen are becoming enviropreneurs. By reducing the number of livestock grazing on their vast tribal lands, they have restored the tall grasses that draw abundant wildlife. They also are attracting well-paying tourists.
Brett Howell is developing a market for coral reef restoration off Florida’s coast. If the reefs rebound and new coral grows, they will not only improve the habitat for marine animals but also improve business prospects for dive shops, fishing boats, and ocean side hotels and restaurants. Coral Reef Restoration
The Grand Canyon's Skywalk garnered millions in profits for the Haulapai Indians, but by exercising its right to public domain, the tribe cut the developer out of the project and out of the money. The uncertainties of tribal governance and judicial systems has a chilling effect on economic development on reservations.
The sagging global economy, low natural gas prices, and a reduction in energy demand have all played their part in the demise of cap-and-trade schemes. Regulatory manipulation, argues Terry Anderson and Gary Libecap, however, is the fundamental reason for the death of the sulfur dioxide market. In an op-ed for The Daily Caller, Anderson and Libecap call on the U.S. and Europe to recognize emission allowances as real property subject to laws against takings. Otherwise, we are doomed to expensive and ineffective environmental regulations.
PERC researchers propose voluntary water exchange, conservation, and cooperation, allowing water markets to positively affect water scarcity. Tapping Water Markets is available from RFF Press.
Authors Reed Watson and Brandon Scarborough briefly describe and give examples of how water markets can not only provide water where it is needed most, but avoid the acrimony of past water disputes. Along with Terry Anderson, they authored the recent release, Tapping Water Markets. The benefits of water markets
In his new book,Little Green Lies, Jeff Bennett identifies 12 topics, including renewable energy, world population, and recycling that have been the victims of misinformation and ultimately bad policies.
New research documents that vibrant downtown areas are associated with lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from driving and greater public transit use. Former PERC Lone Mountain Fellow Matthew Kahn co-authored the study.
Find out on the Stossel show when Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioner Brian Yablonski explains how individual hunters can often do a better job at protecting the environment than the government.
Dino Falaschetti will join PERC as the new Executive Director. Dino comes to PERC with an outstanding academic record and corporate experience in finance and accounting. Terry Anderson will become President, and Monica Guenther will become Senior Director for Program Management
New Forest Service rules call for sustaining the health, diversity and productivity of the forests and their resources as well as ensuring the social sustainability of communities and recreation. This seems like a tall order and perhaps unsustainable.
As a rancher in the Southwest, Paul Schwennesen, former PERC Enviropreneur Fellow, has seen his fair share of invasive species. Instead of upsetting the “delicate” natural balance of his land, however, he argues the Salt Cedar and Buffelgrass, amongst other non-natives, are a part of a fluid and dynamic equilibrium defined by competing and cooperating species.
In her new book,The Rambunctious Garden, Emma Marris challenges the traditional view that pristine wilderness is in a state of equilibrium and must be intensely managed to keep it that way. She does not see nature as neat and tidy, frozen in time, but rather more wild and crazy. In a recent Wall Street Journal column, science writer Matt Ridley adds his support. Set nature free, he advises, even if you do prefer red squirrels to gray.
PERC Senior Fellow Randy Simmons and Del Gardner are the editors of
In Kenya, Maasai herdsmen are becoming enviropreneurs. By reducing the number of livestock grazing on their vast tribal lands, they have restored the tall grasses that draw abundant wildlife. They also are attracting well-paying tourists.
The Grand Canyon's Skywalk garnered millions in profits for the Haulapai Indians, but by exercising its right to public domain, the tribe cut the developer out of the project and out of the money. The uncertainties of tribal governance and
PERC researchers propose voluntary water exchange, conservation, and cooperation, allowing water markets to positively affect water scarcity. 
In his new book, 
New research documents that vibrant downtown areas are associated with lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from driving and greater public transit use. Former PERC Lone Mountain Fellow Matthew Kahn co-authored the study.
Find out on the 
Dino Falaschetti
As a rancher in the Southwest, Paul Schwennesen, former PERC Enviropreneur Fellow, has seen his fair share of invasive species. Instead of upsetting the “delicate” natural balance of his land, however, he argues the Salt Cedar and Buffelgrass, amongst other
In her new book,