Volume 29, No.1, Winter 2011

Carr is finding that the fastest way to solve most environmental problems is with “economics not public policy”—a concept that PERC’s Enviropreneur™ Institute (PEI) has been teaching over the past 10 years. In this year’s special enviropreneur edition, PEI director emeritus extraordinaire, Bobby McCormick, reflects on the past and future of this powerful program.

Crops Minus Sun and Soil

Josh Hottenstein

Where new methods of agricultural production are increasingly sought-after, Verdant Earth Technologies is developing agricultural systems to address future challenges and to provide a growing population with fresh produce.

Thank you, Ronald Coase

Terry Anderson

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.

Climate goes back to court

Jonathan Adler

Wikimedia Commons 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…

Flip-flops are forever

Linda Platts

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.

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…

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