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Finding Our Way Out – Restoring Our Vital Link to Nature
Today there are signs that we have grown increasingly complacent about our natural lands to the point where we risk not knowing how to find our way out…outdoors that is.
Exploring Nature in Cyberspace
We hate TV, but we have a favorite show…we hate electronic eavesdropping, but we love it when it is used to capture a fiendish criminal. We love to hate it. We hate to love it.
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea Made Better?
America is about to rediscover her national parks. To great fanfare, Ken Burns’ epic documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” premieres on PBS this fall.
Nature’s Lost Children
With an ever increasing mound of scientific research indicating that kids who spend time outside tend to be smarter, happier, and healthier, the idea that children need nature is not novel.
NAFTA, Environmental Kuznets Curves, and Mexico’s Progress
By Jody Lipford and Bruce Yandle
Deconstructing The Population Bomb
Last year marked the 40th anniversary of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, one of the two most influential environmentalist books of the 1960s with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962).
Water Markets: Why Not More?
At the PERC workshop, scholars presented papers examining why water markets have not developed further than they have and explored how institutional and political barriers might be lowered.
The Emerging Water Crisis in the United States
"Water lubricates the American erconomy just as oil does," says Robert Glennon, author of the new Island Press book Unqunenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It. It’s hard to argue with his premise. Just as with oil, supplies of water are finite and are coming under increased stress as populationContinue reading “The Emerging Water Crisis in the United States”
Don Leal appointed to Gulf of Mexico fishery advisory panel
PERC Research Director Don Leal has been appointed to serve on an advisory panel for the Gulf of Mexico that will help guide decisions on how limited access privilege programs can be used effectively to ensure the health and economic viability of the gulf’s marine resources. Leal’s career has been dedicated to research on naturalContinue reading “Don Leal appointed to Gulf of Mexico fishery advisory panel”