PERC's Enviropreneur Institute (PEI) is a ten-day educational program based in Bozeman, Montana, designed for early to mid-career environmental leaders interested in learning how property rights and markets can enhance environmental assets.
Participants interact with and learn from experts in the fields of economics, business planning, and marketing as well as previous PEI alumni. In addition to lectures and discussion groups, the curriculum includes field trips to local businesses that have adopted innovative conservation strategies and recreational trips within the surrounding Bozeman area. The program concludes with business plan presentations.
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.