Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems.
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The Rights-Based Revolutions Beneath the Surface
With clearly defined rights to their shared and invisible natural assets, fishermen and irrigators alike reverse a race to the bottom.
Against Environmental Pessimism
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be hopeful about the future of the planet.
A Pirate Looks at 40
Reflections on PERC’s milestone anniversary.
Federal Rules Discourage Cleanup of Abandoned Mines
Better incentives will motivate efforts to rid western landscapes of lingering pollution.
Free Markets Meet Public Lands
How PERC’s ideas are improving federal land management.
Free Market Environmentalism Elucidated
Liberty, environmental quality, and the quest for the frontier.
Book Review: Green Market Revolution
This book brings together experts from more than 15 pro-market and pro-conservation organizations around the world to explore market environmentalism.
Yellowstone’s Surprising Connection to Fighting Coronavirus
A key ingredient in the standard Covid-19 tests was found in Yellowstone’s hot springs decades ago. Here’s what Yellowstone’s next big discovery could mean for the future of national parks.
Fixing Our Parks, One Step at a Time
Fixing our public lands now and into the future is how we will restore what’s great about our “Great American Outdoors.”