By Katharine Herrup Although President Obama recently fulfilled his promise to better fund America’s national parks with a bill he signed Oct. 30 that will add $218 million to the parks budget next year, the small increases his administration is providing are unlikely to be enough to make up for years of neglect. Obama saidContinue reading “Not a walk in the park”
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Private land, public wildlife: Finding a balance
Watch Read Missoula, Montana—At the Montana Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting November 9, 2009, PERC’s Terry Anderson and Reed Watson gave a presentation on Montana’s ever-expanding Stream Access Law and the implications of that expansion for the state’s farmers and ranchers. During two workshop sessions, the pair described how the recent Montana Supreme Court caseContinue reading “Private land, public wildlife: Finding a balance”
The Beauty of Parking
Solar panels and parking lots have teamed up for what some in the solar industry are calling extraordinary dual use.
Floating Islands, Filtered Water
Kania constructs bio islands from a mesh fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.
Golf Course Makeover
Just a few years ago golf courses were considered an environmental abomination, wasting precious water, spewing runoff contaminated with fertilizers and insecticides, and replacing wild meadows and woodlands with monotonous manicured landscapes to serve the country club set.
A chance to close the judicial takings loophole
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, a case that raises the question of when, if ever, a judicial decision constitutes a taking of private property.
Readers’ Forum
Is “nature deficit disorder” a pandemic or a farce? Share your thoughts about environmental education
Scary green monsters
Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it’s almost a waste of resources. Like acid rain, but more persistent and corrosive, it dribbles down on them all day long.
“And then what?”
In the early days of the ivory trade ban in the 1980s, TIME magazine showed a picture of Kenyan government officials burning tons of ivory to demonstrate their commitment to the ban as a way of stopping elephant poaching.
The value of environmental amenities
Do people really care about improvements in the environment? As silly as this question might sound, it has proven remarkably difficult for economists to pin down a precise answer.