Salt deposits can destroy farm land, but at long last, one scientist has found a crop that will tolerate irrigation by sea water.
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Garbage To Oil
A great meal for many Americans is a Butterball turkey. A great deal for ConAgra, the company producing Butterballs, is to turn all its turkey waste into marketable products. Its Carthage, Missouri, turkey plant accumulates 1.3 million gallons a day of turkey grease, guts, fat, and feathers that is stored in lagoons and sent toContinue reading “Garbage To Oil”
Indoor Sunshine
Cabela’s, one of the world’s largest outfitting companies, is shedding new light on its indoor facilities. In Prairie de Chien, Wis., a 400,000-square-foot retail store and 600,000-square-foot distribution center, have been equipped with full spectrum, energy-efficient light fixtures that spread indoor sunshine while reducing utility bills. Full spectrum light is the equivalent of sunlight atContinue reading “Indoor Sunshine”
Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
Understanding how economic analysis can help protect the environment.
Superfund Destroys a Small Business
A former owner of a small business, shares his grim experience with the tentacles of the Superfund law and its ever expanding liability.
How to Protect People and Wildlife in Kenya
The director of the Inter Region Economic Network (IREN) in Nairobi discusses the problems with government control of wildlife in Kenya
A Mediocre Grade on the Environment
PERC issues a “Mid-Term Report Card” on George W. Bush’s environmental policy The grade is low.
The Costs Of Clean Air
A major study of the Clean Air Act confirms that — as businesses often claim — the costs are high.
Toward Better Environmental Education
In this article prepared for the Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment at Lindenwood University, Jane Shaw discusses how advocacy has replaced good science in many school textbooks, and how it can be changed.
The Worm Turns
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, nearly half a million worms are at work farming food scraps from the mess hall. The worm farm had long been a dream of Bill Meinerding, the manager of the base’s recycling program. So far he could not be happier with his squirmy little farmers. Originally they wereContinue reading “The Worm Turns”