News-Tribune November 25, 2007 As water becomes more scarce, we’re going to have to find a way to balance individual rights, market forces By James G. Workman Last January in Davos, Switzerland, the bullish World Economic Forum foresaw “no limits to growth” anywhere, but added a caveat concerning “the one place we don’t allow marketContinue reading “Tapping Our Ingenuity”
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Forest Policy Up in Smoke:
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT September 2007 By Alison Berry Abstract Forests evolved over millennia in the presence of fire, a vital ecological processfire returns nutrients to the soil and helps seedlings establish. In 1911 the United States Forest Service began to suppress all fires on American forests, resulting in dangerous accumulations of fuels. Conflagrations ofContinue reading “Forest Policy Up in Smoke:”
U.S. Firefighting Policy,
Billings Gazette September 1, 2007 By Alison Berry BOZEMAN – Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Montana. Once again, the West wears a shroud of gray ugly smoke this summer. Huge, spectacular clouds of smoke billow thousands of feet into the sky and then settle into the valleys, the lives, and the lungs of all who live here.Continue reading “U.S. Firefighting Policy,”
Remediators Win Award for “Best New Business”
The Remediators Inc. not only won the “Best New Business Idea” award, on the same day, the Navy notified the firm that it had been award “sole-source” standing for innovative technology. This means that anyone within the Navy that is interested in testing a cleanup using innovative tech can use its service for remediation withoutContinue reading “Remediators Win Award for “Best New Business””
Templeton Freedom Awards
PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp Wins Top Prize for Social Entrepreneurship PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp was named the top winner of the 2007 for Social Entrepreneurship. This multi-faceted awards program, managed by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Virginia , attracted more than 200 entries from 53 countries this year. The award recognizes innovative civil society programsContinue reading “Templeton Freedom Awards”
Who Benefits From Kenya’s Wildlife?
East African Standard March 6, 2007 Applying free market ideas to wildlife conservation By Joseph Magiri Are economic growth and environmental conservation mutually exclusive? Animal rights activists hold they are. Free market environmentalists say they are not. In his groundbreaking research Professor Terry L. Anderson, an environment economist at Stanford University shows that market approachesContinue reading “Who Benefits From Kenya’s Wildlife?”
State Parks’ Progress Toward Self-Sufficiency
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT Introduction Although our national parks are considered the crown jewels of our country, state parks also are stunningly beautiful and play a key role in protecting our natural resources. Providing recreation close to home, state parks receive three times more visitors than national parks. The variations among the state park systemsContinue reading “State Parks’ Progress Toward Self-Sufficiency”
Markets and Morality
Editor’s note: In the winter of 1988, Peter J. Hill, a PERC senior fellow and a professor of economics at Wheaton College of Wheaton, Illinois, wrote the following article on markets and morality. It was originally published in PERC Viewpoints, a series of papers on policy alternatives. It offers some valuable insights that are asContinue reading “Markets and Morality”
Environmental Bounty-Hunting
By Bruce L. Benson Private prosecution of crimes has a long and sordid history, and that history isn’t over. Bounty hunters no longer hound innocent people to death as some did in England in the mid-18th century, but environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have modified the tactic. They use "citizen suits"Continue reading “Environmental Bounty-Hunting”
Selling unused federal land a good idea
Seattle Post-Intelligencer April 11, 2006 By Holly L. Fretwell Guest Columnist Isn’t it great to sell your junk at a yard sale, ridding your home of the stuff that no longer fits your lifestyle but just takes up space? Yard sales illustrate the beauty of markets: Both partners benefit. The buyer gets something new; theContinue reading “Selling unused federal land a good idea”