On ABC’s “20/20” with John Stossel, Terry Anderson sugests eating tigers could be the best way to save them.
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The ‘illusion’ of green jobs
By Andrew P. Morriss "Green jobs" are touted as the universal cure-all, saving the environment and the economy at the same time. Congress included more than $80 billion in spending and tax incentives to promote them in the recent stimulus bill. Van Jones, President Barack Obama’s green jobs adviser, even recently called for using ex-convictsContinue reading “The ‘illusion’ of green jobs”
On Earth Day, Think Thoreau
By Laura E. Huggins Earth Day is upon us, and with it, several “green” events, including the broadcasting of “Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau” on public television and in schools. This is surprising at a time when government involvement in the environment is all the rage. Henry David Thoreau, who wrote that “government is bestContinue reading “On Earth Day, Think Thoreau”
Who is Minding the Federal Estate?
A discussion of innovative approaches to improve the management of our public lands.
Public Land Mismanagement
Environmental, fiscal and economic irresponsibility in the name of protection.
Review: Greener Than Thou
By Max Falque Terry Anderson, who attended our 1998 International Conference on Water Resources (Aix en Provence 1998) is executive director of the Property and Environment Reseach Center-PERC, a leading think tank in environmental policy and author of several books, among them the best seller "Free Market Environmentalism". His new book, "Greener than thou, areContinue reading “Review: Greener Than Thou”
Creating Marine Assets: Property Rights in Ocean Fisheries
With the right economic incentives, marine life can become an asset to be nourished over time, not consumed in a wasteful race.
Native Americans Need the Rule of Law
By Terry L. Anderson [See research by Terry Anderson and Dominic Parker] Ken Salazar, the new secretary of the Interior, faces the same tough questions as his predecessors: Drill more or drill less? Graze more or graze less? Mine more or mine less? More snowmobiling in national parks, or less? But for an administration committedContinue reading “Native Americans Need the Rule of Law”
Superfund Follies, Part II
Since 1980, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had the authority to clean up hazardous waste sites that pose an imminent and substantial danger to public welfare and the environment.
Former State Senator Sees Rivers as a Magnet
Doug Barclay vividly remembers a fall day in the early 1980s when he said upwards of 3,000 people were on his New York property along the lower Salmon River