PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp Wins Top Prize for Social Entrepreneurship PERC’s Enviropreneur Camp was named the top winner of the 2007 for Social Entrepreneurship. This multi-faceted awards program, managed by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Virginia , attracted more than 200 entries from 53 countries this year. The award recognizes innovative civil society programsContinue reading “Templeton Freedom Awards”
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Who Benefits From Kenya’s Wildlife?
East African Standard March 6, 2007 Applying free market ideas to wildlife conservation By Joseph Magiri Are economic growth and environmental conservation mutually exclusive? Animal rights activists hold they are. Free market environmentalists say they are not. In his groundbreaking research Professor Terry L. Anderson, an environment economist at Stanford University shows that market approachesContinue reading “Who Benefits From Kenya’s Wildlife?”
These Lands are Your Lands
Why free market environmentalism is the magnum opus of a new generation of greens.
The Road to an Epiphany
The eyes of a keen conservationist are opened.
From Farm to FME
Growing up on a farm in Kansas provided an invigorating childhood—learning about crops and animals, befriending pet chickens, and shooting rabbits for dinner with an 1890 vintage lever action 12-gauge Winchester. My early interaction with the “environment,” coupled with the ideas associated with free market environmentalism (FME), which were so eloquently put forth in TerryContinue reading “From Farm to FME”
A Eureka Moment
Nobel Laureate sees promise in the future of the environment using markets.
Tapping the Market for a Cleaner Environment
Making environmental protection profitable leads to results.
Politics and Environment
Do single-issue voters matter? Recent evidence suggests that, when the issue is the environment, the answer is “yes.”
Free Market Environmentalism
When Donald Leal and I wrote Free Market Environmentalism in 1991, we mostly theorized about how property rights and markets could enhance environmental quality. We focused more on political failures than market successes because there were more of the former than the latter.
Java Lights Your Fire
Rod Sprules, an engineer with extensive experience in product development, made the first java log by packing an empty cigar tube with dried coffee grounds and lighting it at the dining table.