The PERColator is a collaborative blog from the Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) – the center for free market environmentalism. It is dedicated to exploring the notion that environmental quality is best defended by property rights and free markets.
PERC espouses the conservation legacy of Aldo Leopold, who wrote that “conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.” Free markets and property rights provide landowners with the right incentives to conserve the environment and the public interest.
Contributors to the blog are PERC fellows and friends that specialize in various areas of environmental policy. Our goal is to facilitate discussion on environmental issues throughout the blogosphere, much as a percolator facilitates the sharing of ideas over cups of coffee. We hope you’ll participate.
Please feel free to comment on any of the content, but remember to do so in a manner that is civil, thoughtful, and respectful. As defenders of property rights, we will work to maintain the environmental quality of the PERColator for all its guests.
To find out more about PERC, visit perc.org and join our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Founded 30 years ago in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets.
PERC’s publications, each designed to resonate with specific groups, move ideas generated at PERC to broader audiences.
Research is at the heart of PERC's work, with a focus on the question: What is the link between economic growth and environmental quality?
The goal of PERC’s programs is to fully realize the vision of establishing “PERC University,” where scholars, students, policy makers, and others convene to expand the applications of free market environmentalism.
PERC's fellowships share a common goal of exposing new scholars, students, journalists, and policy makers to free market environmentalism, as well as enable scholars already familiar with FME to explore new applications.
PERC continues to publish and present a broad range of research and discussion through podcasts, videos, and other multimedia channels.