Finding a balance between producing commodities, such as lumber, and maintaining amenities, such as open space, is crucial if we hope to promote environmental stewardship and healthy economies.
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Meet the Enviropreneurs of 2008
Nicolás Boullosa Barcellona, Spain Nicolás Boullosa is a journalist, entrepreneur, and CEO of *faircompanies, an independent website providing information regarding fair trade, corporate social responsibility, responsible consumption, ethical investment, alternative energies, and related topics. Nicolás has focused his journalistic work on the Internet and new technologies, along with social and economic themes. He has beenContinue reading “Meet the Enviropreneurs of 2008”
PERC Enviropreneur wins support for her possum project
By Linda Platts In the summer of 2007, Teresa Platt spent two weeks at PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp sharpening his buisness skills and honing her plans for a commercial project based on the over-abundance of brushtail possums in New Zealand. According to Platt’s project proposal, the possum was introduced to New Zealand by European settlers inContinue reading “PERC Enviropreneur wins support for her possum project”
The Economics of Going Green
Stanford Review Interview with Terry Anderson
Fire in the National Forest System
Federal fire management goes local
Forestry, biofuels and the oil crisis
Excess forest fuels could launch a viable wood biofuel industry
Are You Really Green?
The drive to be greener than others begs two questions. Why is everyone so green here and now, and what really constitutes being green?
Driving Restrictions and Air Quality
Automobiles are responsible for most of the air pollution observed in Mexico City.
Build it and they will come
In Delaware, a waste disposal operation has transformed an underwater desert into a marine oasis.
What’s economics got to do with it
Of course I wanted to make the environment better. Doesn’t everybody?