by Laura Huggins Following on the heels of Joe Biden’s recent visit to Yellowstone touting green jobs, PERC senior fellow Roger Meiners exposes the folly in much of the “green” stimulus spending in today’s Wall Street Journal. Not far down the road from Bozeman is the village of Ennis, home to the U.S. Fish and WildlifeContinue reading “Talking Green in Yellowstone”
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Talking Green in Yellowstone
Stimulus spending for green jobs is short sighted. The solar panels produced can make electricty for less, but will eventually cost more to replace.
Crosses, Stars, Moons, and Green Street-Side Bins
What do these four symbols have in common? Well, to start with they all cost resources, that is, they are not free. Why in the heck then do practitioners waste their money on them? Why do churches have steeples, and synagogues wonderfully ornate glass windows, and mosques, exquisite wool carpets? Surely the money spent onContinue reading “Crosses, Stars, Moons, and Green Street-Side Bins”
Paul Schwennesen honored in global essay contest
Paul Schwennesen an Enviropreneur-in-Residence at PERC and a former fellow at the Enviropreneur Institute is one of seven top winners in a global easy contest sponsored by the SEVEN Fund in Cambridge, MA.
The topic was the “morality of profit.”
Environmental Justice or Gentrification?
by Shawn Regan This week, EPA director Lisa Jackson announced new plans for her agency to incorporate environmental justice into its decision making processes. Outlined in a guidance document released this week, the EPA will begin considering the disproportionate impact pollution has on low-income and minority communities when drafting new rules. Several factors have led toContinue reading “Environmental Justice or Gentrification?”
Welcome to the PERColator
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 toContinue reading “Welcome to the PERColator”
Recycling Myths Revisited
Most claims of environmental good from recycling are myths. Recycling often uses more resources than it saves.
Free market environmentalism: Private sector better at preservation
Free Market Environmentalism is better at managing natural resources than the government. The oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico is a recent example.
FME: Exploring the Tough Questions
Young scholars from various discipline challenge the PERC founders of free market environmentalism on what works, what could work in the future and how to address large scale problems such as climate change, and also when markets are not the so. They will also discuss situations where markets might not work best or might not work at all.
Obama pushes TR’s top-down land management style
Obama’s Great Outdoor Initiative is not a bottom-up approach, but once again a top-down effort that will create more government programs and reduce local control.