Growing up on a farm in Kansas provided an invigorating childhood—learning about crops and animals, befriending pet chickens, and shooting rabbits for dinner with an 1890 vintage lever action 12-gauge Winchester. My early interaction with the “environment,” coupled with the ideas associated with free market environmentalism (FME), which were so eloquently put forth in TerryContinue reading “From Farm to FME”
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Malthus Reconsidered: Population, Natural Resources, and Markets
Malthus will always be associated with the idea of a social and economic trap, in which population grows faster than food production. But Malthus did not believe in a population apocalypse, as many of his followers do today.
Bees and Barbed Wire for Water
In Bolivia, bees and barbed wire served as compensation for landowners who protect native vegetation in a water-producing cloud forest.
Mushrooms Meet Brownfields
The Remediators Inc. is proving that mushrooms are a safe and cost-effective way to clean up contaminated soils.
Deadbeat Dams
A dam brokerage house plans to convert fixed liabilities liquid assets.
Enviropreneurs in Action
Converting agricultural land into recreational property
Nothing Oxymoronic About Free Market Environmentalism
Building the university of free market environmentalism will require a combination of business acumen and environmental passion.
Air Pollution and Infant Mortality
Reducing pollution is not the only factor to be considered when it comes to lowering infant mortality rates passion.
Green to the End
Dying is big business in the United States to the tune of $26 billion dollars annually. Yet a growing number of people and their next of kin are seeking an alternative path to the final resting spot. Ramsey Creek Preserve in South Carolina, a privately owned 32-acre plot of old growth woods, offers its land forContinue reading “Green to the End”
Finding Common Ground
Komodo National Park is located on one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, just one of 10,000 islands in the Indonesian archipelago. Best known for the famous land-dwelling Komodo Dragons, Grist says it is also home to an underwater environment containing some of the greatest concentrations of marine diversity on the planet. It has more thanContinue reading “Finding Common Ground”