PERC is not only celebrating its 30th anniversary in June, but also the arrival of Pete Geddes. We are pleased to announce the addition of Pete to the staff as Director of Development.
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Rerun: “The Not So Wild, Wild West”
The basic idea was that bottom up, rather than top down, development of property rights, offered a useful tool for analyzing many resource issues.
Reflections on “Saving the Wilderness”
“Saving the Wilderness” explained how the managers of the Rainey Preserve used market relationships to enhance private land management and how they and similar managers could, if allowed, improve the management of government land, too.
Recycling Redux
More than 30 years after the homeless garbage barge Mobro 4000 put recycling on the front pages, recycling remains a poster child for many who consider themselves environmentalists.
Helping Property Rights Evolve in Marine Fisheries
Scarcely a week goes by in which we do not hear or read some distressing news about overfishing in ocean fisheries. Such news comes at a time when the world has witnessed a phenomenal productivity boom in agricultural use of land.
“Bootleggers, Baptists, and Global Warming” in Retrospect
As nations argued over global warming policies at the Kyoto Protocol, PERC senior fellow Bruce Yandle was busy bringing new insights to the discussion.
Diminishing Law and Liberty
The greatest environmental president in history, Richard Nixon, created the EPA by Executive Order and helped make the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act parts of the federal code. What most call “environmental law” means the regulations and litigation flowing from a dog’s breakfast of federal and state statutes. The moveContinue reading “Diminishing Law and Liberty”
African Villagers Grow Energy
A common shrub that grows beside the road is transforming hundreds of small villages in Mali, one of the poorest countries on earth.
Stop and Smell the Roses At the Landfill
Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island was once the world’s largest dump. One day, it will be New York City’s largest park and a model for landfill reclamation around the world.
Laura Huggins, Part 1
On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.