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Juliet Eilperin

Juliet Eilperin is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who covers the environment for The Washington Post, reporting on areas including climate change, oceans, and air quality. In pursuit of these stories she has gone scuba diving with sharks in the Bahamas, trekking on the Arctic tundra, and searching on her hands and knees for rare insectsContinue reading “Juliet Eilperin”

Matthew E. Kahn

Matthew E. Kahn, a 2011 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow, is a professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of Economics, the Department of Public Policy, and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He serves as the Director of the Health Markets Initiative at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy andContinue reading “Matthew E. Kahn”

William Maurer

William Maurer is the Executive Director of the Institute for Justice’s Washington chapter. The Institute for Justice is a public interest law firm that is the nation’s leading defender of victims of eminent domain abuse. This article originally appeared at www.ij.org.

John R. Bockstoce

John R. Bockstoce is an arctic specialist and award-winning author. His most recent book is Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade (2009, Yale University Press). He received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Alaska for his contributions to Arctic studies.

Robert J. Miller

ROBERT J MILLER is a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, author of Reservation “Capitalism:” Economic Development in Indian Country (Praeger Publishers 2012), Chief Justice of the Grand Ronde Tribe, and a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe.

Daniel Botkin

Daniel Botkin is a scientist‚ biologist‚ ecologist‚ physicist‚ and professor emeritus‚ department of Ecology‚ Evolution‚ and Marine Biology‚ UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century (1990) and The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered (2012).

Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine where he writes a weekly science and technology column. Bailey is the author of numerous books including Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution. He has appeared on television and radio programs‚ including the NBC Nightly News and PBS NewsHour.

David Hoffman

David Hoffman is currently developing a company devoted to measuring air quality in the Bozeman and Salt Lake City areas based on a network of optical sensors. He is also an embedded systems and firmware consultant with the Utah Strategic Innovation Group. David holds several degrees from Montana State University in Bozeman, including a doctorateContinue reading “David Hoffman”