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Squeezing Profits from Endangered Species
A savvy new breed of capitalist is using incentives such as mitigation credits to protect critical habitat and earn profits.
The Secret Life of Trees: How Pens Are Preserving Old-Growth Forests
Pens from old-growth forests preserve the forest as well as its history.
Bye, bye bison
Just as the market brought the bison to near extinction, so too has it brought them back from the brink.
The Underwater Enviropreneur
Enviropreneur Brett Howell is developing a market for coral reef restoration off of Florida’s coast.
Where Free Markets Meet Faith
GreenFaith combines free-market and faith-based principles on the environment.
The ark in dry dock
Retooling the Endangered Species Act
California’s redevelopment nightmare coming to an end
Redevelopment agencies are thought to have abused eminent domain and violated private property rights.
Nature’s styrofoam
Enviropreneurs grow protective foam packaging.
The Green Costs of Kelo Revisited
In 2006, Ilya Somin and I co-authored “The Green Costs of Kelo: Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection,” in which we argued that allowing the use of eminent domain for economic development was bad for environmental conservation. Environmentalist advocates responded with disbelief. The Community Rights Counsel (the precursor to the Constitutional Accountability Center) went so far as toContinue reading “The Green Costs of Kelo Revisited”