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FME -- How does it work?
Terry Anderson gives some real world examples for Denver TV program "Independent Thinking."
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What's wrong with our federal lands?
PERC research associate Holly Fretwell discusses her new book documenting the failure of public land management.
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Policy Changes for American Indian Tribes
American Indians and property rights are the topic of a radio interview with Terry Anderson.
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Recycling
PERC Sr. Fellow Dan Benjamin explains the myths of recycling.
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FME -- Getting the Law Right
Terry Anderson says incentives matter when relying on markets to produce environmental quality.
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FME African Style
PERC Media Fellow Wycliffe Muga reports from Kenya.
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Midnight Regulations
Terry Anderson discusses Bush's last minute environmental regulations on NPR.
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The Tragedy of the Commons
A lecture by PERC Sr. Fellow Bruce Yandle with  implications for environmental regulation.
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Linking business and the environment

The Enviropreneur Institute gets underway this week at PERC as conservationists hone their business skills and develop projects that employ markets and property rights for environmental benefits.
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Is there a down side to green job growth?

PERC researchers report that green job growth can destroy existing jobs, while an article in Nature cites studies by the Pew Center and Union of Concerned Scientists that predict a growth in science jobs and research.
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PERC Reports Summer '09

Obama has a green image, but more importantly will his policies will improve the environment. This issue looks at biofuels, green jobs, marine fisheries, and environmental justice.
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Controlling Carbon Emissions with Taxes

As the Obama administration moves forward with a cap-and-trade market like mechanism for controlling emissions, PERC senior fellow Bruce Yandle's research shows that taxation is the most effective way to reduce both emissions and costs.
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Saving endangered tigers?

When ABC's "20/20" host John Stossel asked how to save endangered species such as tigers, PERC's Terry Anderson suggested farming them for traditioanl medicines and selling expensive hunting permits. Appalling to some, but Anderson and others say it works.
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Matt Ridley "The Optimist"

Matt Ridley's forthcoming book, "The Optimist: Economic Progress and the Evolution of the Future," was the subject of a symposium co-sponsored by PERC. Scholars, business people, and journalists met to provide comments on the draft of the book and share their views on the topic of innovation and human progress.
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A closer look at Obama's spending policies

The Hoover Institution just released online Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford. Chapter 5: At What Price, Green? was contributed by PERC Executive Director Terry Anderson and Senior Fellow Gary Libecap.
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Public land management is failing environmentally and economically

In her new book , Who is Minding the Federal Estate?, PERC Research Associate Holly Lippke Fretwell traces the history of land management that has so devastated the public domain. She examines the problems and suggests major institutional changes to restore the environmental and economic health of America's public lands.
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Creating marine assets to save
ocean fisheries

In this PERC Policy Series, Creating Marine Assets: Property Rights in Ocean Fisheries, Robert Deacon considers how economic incentives can prevent the destruction of sustainable stocks of marine life and reduce environmental damage.
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