William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, Roger Meiners, Andrew P. Morriss

Green Jobs: Boom or Bust?

An aggressive push for a green economy is underway in the United States. Policymakers routinely assert that “green jobs” can simultaneously improve environmental quality and reduce unemployment.

Linda Platts

What's your wattage

Let’s face it. Even in a world where we share the intimate details of our lives online, some things are still private.

Terry Anderson

Is Obama Green?

Of course, President Obama is “green.” These days, it’s hard to find anyone or anything that isn’t. Barack and Michelle have their organic White House garden. George “dubya” has solar panels at his ranch.

Alison Berry

Fueling the Future

Saws are buzzing on national forests, but these are not your typical logging operations. Instead of taking down big trees for shipments to lumber mills, loggers are cutting saplings and clearing brush from the understory.

La Monica Everett-Haynes

Unquenchable: America's water crisis and what to do about it

The United States must come to terms with its lavish use of water and, at the same time, figure out serious solutions to the immediate problem related to access to water.

Daniel Benjamin

Property Rights and Prosperity

Secure property rights are central to economic prosperity. It was the emergence of secure property rights that laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent explosion of per capita incomes.

Readers Speak Out

I’m torn. Some of my fondest Montana memories come from days of fly-fishing publicly accessed streams. In contrast, I’ve also conducted redd counts on one of the state’s most highly contested “stream access” streams and witnessed first-hand the natural resource benefits of privatization.

Spencer Banzhaf

And Environmental Justice For All But Liberty Comes First

In 1982, some 450 activists were arrested protesting the construction of a hazardous waste facility in Warren County, N.C., a primarily poor, black community.

Robert Deacon

Morro Bay Fishery Charts Bold Course

Morro Bay is a picturesque coastal community in central California. The town’s most prominent physical feature is Morro Rock, the remnant of an ancient volcano, which stands at the entrance to the bay that gives the town its name.

Jonathan Adler

Tide is Turning for Property Rights

Property rights advocates have long argued that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) effectively forces a handful of property owners to provide the “public good” of species habitat at private expense.