Small family-run farms are facing tough economic times. For many of the families, staying on the farm often means taking another job in town. In 1979, three of these small farmers came up with a better idea. They arranged to have their products delivered directly to urban dwellers. They contracted with other small farmers toContinue reading “Leasing The Goat”
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Spinning Trash
The pop cans, plastic cups, cellophane wrappers, and other debris that people toss on streets and sidewalks can end up on the beach or bobbing in the ocean. Oil and grease from cars and trucks can also be flushed into open water by a rainstorm or melting snow. Storm drains are built to catch theContinue reading “Spinning Trash”
Regulators Damage a Park
A professor at Case Western Law School writes about the perverse results of the Cleveland airport’s “mitigation” of the loss of a wetland. To build a new runway, the airport must pay to “create” wetlands by damaging a beautiful and serene park sixteen miles away.
Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity
What property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.
Ecological Agrarian: Agriculture’s First Evolution in 10,000 Years
Demands on agriculture are changing and the focus of agriculture is changing too.
Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law
An introduction to the economics and law of property rights.
Agricultural Policy and the Environment
How and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture
Bush Administration’s Environmental Policies I
Introduction Grades Executive Summary Complete Report Card This mid-term report card was developed by PERC–the Center for Free Market Environmentalism to evaluate actions affecting natural resources and the environment taken by the George W. Bush administration during its first two years. The report card assesses actions in the light of free market environmentalism (FME). ConsiderationContinue reading “Bush Administration’s Environmental Policies I”
Grades on Bush’s Environmental Policies
GRADES Overall Grade C- Agricultural Chemicals B Air Quality Regulation D Arctic Wildlife National Refuge C Brownfields and Superfund C- Chemical Plant Security B Drinking Water and Arsenic D Endangered Species C Global Climate Change C Grazing on Public Lands C- Ocean Fisheries D Persistent Organic Pollutants D Public Lands Management C- RegulationContinue reading “Grades on Bush’s Environmental Policies”
Commentary on Mid-term Report Card
Let Us Hear You PERC’s Mid-Term Report Card on the Bush administration’s environmental policy has prompted many comments. We welcome responses from all comers and would like to post them on this page. Please email your comments to us at perc@perc.org and include some brief information about yourself, your job, or your particular interest inContinue reading “Commentary on Mid-term Report Card”