Linda Platts

Turkey Fryer Leftovers Power a Revolution

If you like the scent of cooking turkey, you would probably like living in Plano, Texas.

Linda Platts

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.

Linda Platts

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 "Letters to the Editor"

Carol Ferrie

Impressions

  Fifteen years ago, an academic publisher quietly released Free Market Environmentalism by Terry Anderson and Don Leal. At the time, few mainstream environmentalists or politicians saw the book. But since its publication, free-market environmentalism spurred a quiet revolution in environmental policy. Now its views and policy approaches are starting to be taken seriously inContinue reading "Letters to the Editor"

Letters to the Editor

PES model needs replicating Coming from another Latin-American country, it was very informative for me to see [in “Bees and Barbed Wire for Water,” December 2006] this case of payments for environmental services (PES) working effectively. When we are talking about property rights in Latin American and Caribbean countries, we always have to deal withContinue reading "Letters to the Editor"

G. Tracy Mehan III

These Lands are Your Lands

Why free market environmentalism is the magnum opus of a new generation of greens.

Matt Ridley

The Road to an Epiphany

The eyes of a keen conservationist are opened.

From Farm to FME

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"

Thomas Bray

A Eureka Moment

Nobel Laureate sees promise in the future of the environment using markets.

Fred Krupp

Tapping the Market for a Cleaner Environment

Making environmental protection profitable leads to results.