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Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Global Warming Battle
By Bruce Yandle and Stuart Buck
Enviro-Capitalists Today
From Arizona to Swaziland, entrepreneurs are flourishing. Entrepreneurs are applying their talents and the tools of the marketplace to the protection of landscapes, wild animals, and even historic buildings. On these pages, meet a few of these enviro-capitalists. A Passion for Trees Chuck Leavell Chuck Leavell is a highly admired pianist who playsContinue reading “Enviro-Capitalists Today”
Who Pays for Wolves?
How markets helped reduce conflict between ranchers and wolves.
Farming the Ocean
Michael Markels has an idea. Actually, he has two. He believes that his ideas can feed the world and solve global warming as well. Markels doesn’t think small. Markels is an environmental engineer, entrepreneur, and dreamer. He’s semi-retired now, at least in theory, as chairman emeritus of his firm Versar, Inc. But withContinue reading “Farming the Ocean”
The Power of Land Covenants
“I had to get other people to pay for ninety percent of the acreage. To be sure they didn?t ruin my Walden with their suburbia, I wrote covenants.” “Like all of humankind, the people who welcomed my covenants often found that their ideals changed or their particular circumstance convinced them to break theContinue reading “The Power of Land Covenants”
Cleaning Up Mining Waste
RS-01-1: 2001 By Stuart Buck and David Gerard Executive Summary About the Authors About PERC Research Studies Since the California gold rush in the middle of the 19th century, hardrock mining has produced hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of gold, silver, copper, lead, and other minerals. One unfortunate legacy of this production is the presenceContinue reading “Cleaning Up Mining Waste”
Defending Illusions: Federal Protection of Ecosystems
How efforts to make federal protection of ecosystems the centerpiece of national environmental policy are driven by religious veneration of Mother Earth wrapped in a veil of weak science.
The Technology of Property Rights
The influence of technology and technological change on the definition and enforcement of property rights.
Hunting for Habitat
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT In their handbook, Hunting for Habitat, Donald R. Leal and J. Bishop Grewell explore ranching for wildlife programs. Around the West, state agencies and landowners are improving both game and nongame habitat through these state-landowner partnerships. Not to be confused with game ranching, these programs help landowners manage free-roaming wild animalContinue reading “Hunting for Habitat”