By Laura Huggins
Editor
Volume 30, No.1, Spring 2012
From the Editor
Features
Pens from old-growth forests preserve the forest as well as its history.
A savvy new breed of capitalist is using incentives such as mitigation credits to protect critical habitat and earn profits.
GreenFaith combines free-market and faith-based principles on the environment.
Enviropreneur Brett Howell is developing a market for coral reef restoration off of Florida's coast.
Columns
Luddites can thwart even the best enviropreneurs; they see solutions as problems.
Just as the market brought the bison to near extinction, so too has it brought them back from the brink.
Perspectives
Redevelopment agencies are thought to have abused eminent domain and violated private property rights.
Fashion designers help rid New Zealand of 30 million destructive, non-native possums.
Cell phones help remote farmers in India to maximize their profits at market.
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