PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp Wins Top Prize for Social Entrepreneurship PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp was named the top winner of the 2007 for Social Entrepreneurship. This multi-faceted awards program, managed by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Virginia , attracted more than 200 entries from 53 countries this year. The award recognizes innovative civil society programsContinue reading “Templeton Freedom Awards”
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Who Benefits From Kenya’s Wildlife?
East African Standard March 6, 2007 Applying free market ideas to wildlife conservation By Joseph Magiri Are economic growth and environmental conservation mutually exclusive? Animal rights activists hold they are. Free market environmentalists say they are not. In his groundbreaking research Professor Terry L. Anderson, an environment economist at Stanford University shows that market approachesContinue reading “Who Benefits From Kenya’s Wildlife?”
A Eureka Moment
Nobel Laureate sees promise in the future of the environment using markets.
Tapping the Market for a Cleaner Environment
Making environmental protection profitable leads to results.
Politics and Environment
Do single-issue voters matter? Recent evidence suggests that, when the issue is the environment, the answer is “yes.”
Free Market Environmentalism
When Donald Leal and I wrote Free Market Environmentalism in 1991, we mostly theorized about how property rights and markets could enhance environmental quality. We focused more on political failures than market successes because there were more of the former than the latter.
Java Lights Your Fire
Rod Sprules, an engineer with extensive experience in product development, made the first java log by packing an empty cigar tube with dried coffee grounds and lighting it at the dining table.
Turkey Fryer Leftovers Power a Revolution
If you like the scent of cooking turkey, you would probably like living in Plano, Texas.
Workers Adapt to a Snail’s Pace
Life has never been easy in the poor Western Cape township of Vyeboom, South Africa. Yet many illiterate, rural people migrated there from Eastern Cape Province seeking work picking fruit. Instead, they have found a promised land, of sorts, picking snails.
Urban Trees Leave a Legacy
In Eugene, Oregon, the number of trees that are cut down each year goes largely unnoticed. They suffer from a variety of conditions such as disease, rotting of trunks and roots, old age, and others that make them hazardous to city dwellers if the big “fellas” take a tumble onto homes, cars, streets, or sidewalks.Continue reading “Urban Trees Leave a Legacy”