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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.
Mushrooms Meet Brownfields
The Remediators Inc. is proving that mushrooms are a safe and cost-effective way to clean up contaminated soils.
Deadbeat Dams
A dam brokerage house plans to convert fixed liabilities liquid assets.
Enviropreneurs in Action
Converting agricultural land into recreational property
Nothing Oxymoronic About Free Market Environmentalism
Building the university of free market environmentalism will require a combination of business acumen and environmental passion.