Terry Anderson

Thank you, Ronald Coase

Nobel laureate Ronald Coase has passed away at the age of 102. Coase's work provided the intellectual foundation on which free market environmentalism is built.

Linda Platts

Parking made simple

Learning how to park takes a few weeks, but finding a place to park takes a lifetime.

Linda Platts

Restore A Park, Save A Nation

Gregg Carr made a fortune with voicemail and the Internet before resigning from every one of his for-profit positions to become a philanthropist.

Linda Platts

Flip-flops are forever

Flip-flops are some of the most basic footwear in the world, a fact that is easily documented by the tons of discarded sandals washed up onto the east coast of Africa from as far away as Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and elsewhere.

Jonathan Adler

Climate goes back to court

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court declared greenhouse gases to be pollutants subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. The Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA triggered a series of far-reaching regulatory proposals from the Environmental Protection Agency designed to control greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, utilities, and other sources. But this wasContinue reading "Thank you, Ronald Coase"

Daniel Benjamin

Barbed wire entrepreneurship

Economist, n. a scoundrel whose faulty vision sees things as they really are, not as they ought to be. —after Ambrose Bierce Joseph Glidden transformed the American Plains. In 1874, Glidden patented the first practical design for barbed wire. The invention dramatically reduced the costs of separating cattle from crops and thus the costs ofContinue reading "Thank you, Ronald Coase"

Seth Zuckerman

Thinking beyond open space

Productive farm land near large urban centers is being protected as conservation easements include farming as a stipulation of the tax-reducing easements.

Class of 2001: Where are they now?

John Charles Cascade Policy Institute In 2004, John Charles became the president of Cascade Policy Institute—an Oregon-based think tank working for state-level reform in areas such as land-use regulation, energy, and taxation. John speaks and writes frequently about free market environmentalism. Currently, he is working on a series of case studies on Portland’s transit-oriented developments.Continue reading "Class of 2001: Where are they now?"

Chris Corbin

Turning Blue Into Green

An enviropreneur uses water rights markets to keep water in stream.

Summer Rayne Oakes

Sourcing for style: an eco-model changes the fashion landscape

Creating a marketplace for fashion designers to use eco-friendly materials