Full Text HTML WASHINGTON, DEC. 21, 2000 – Two high-profile, "anti-sprawl" ballot initiatives in Arizona and Colorado were defeated Nov. 7, but the debate over how-and even whether-to limit suburban growth continues. Enter a new manifesto on the topic: the Lone Mountain Compact. Signed by more than 100 academics, scholars and public policy officials, theContinue reading “Opponents of “Urban Sprawl” should use market-based solutions”
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The Lone Mountain Compact:
Lone Mountain Coalition The phenomenon of urban sprawl has become a pre-eminent controversy throughout the United States. Recently a number of scholars and writers, gathered at a conference about the issue at Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky, Montana by the Political Economy Research Center, decided to distill their conclusions into the following briefContinue reading “The Lone Mountain Compact:”
Straw Houses Withstand Huffs And Puffs
What to do with sludge is a problem faced by many a manufacturer. And that problem has been further complicated in recent times as state and federal agencies often regulate sludge as a hazardous waste. Undaunted, IBM’s facility in Hopewell Junction, NY, has come up with a recycling plan. The sludge from its plant isContinue reading “Straw Houses Withstand Huffs And Puffs”
Educational Programs
This newsletter for students is designed to help them think clearly as they form their opinions about environmental issues.
Sprawl and Smart Growth
By Jane S. Shaw To the Reader A house in the suburbs away from the noise and congestion of the city has long been considered an integral part of the American Dream. Yet, in pursuit of that dream, people may have taken some of the problems of the big city to the suburbs with them.Continue reading “Sprawl and Smart Growth”
A Blueprint for Environmental Education
Economics and the Environment: EcoDetectives is a 15-lesson curriculum designed to show how teachers and students can use economic reasoning in efforts to describe and explain environmental problems.
Turning Wildlife Into An Asset
By J. Bishop Grewell To the Reader How to provide both quality wildlife habitat and hunting opportunities is an increasingly contentious issue in the West. In an effort to achieve these goals governments impose regulations that place restrictions on hunters, landowners, and recreationists. Yet, improvements in wildlife numbers and habitat have been scarce. As J.Continue reading “Turning Wildlife Into An Asset”
Critical Thinking About Environmental Issues
A new series of books for young people, offers objective and balanced discussions of controversial issues such as global warming, endangered species, and pesticides.
The Greening of Foreign Policy
Bringing environmental issues into foreign policy-making and international law endangers trade, national sovereignty, and, ironically, long-term environmental improvement, according to two PERC associates.
Is Free Market Environmentalism “Mainstream”?
This essay explains how the well-accepted principles that explain market behavior and underlie prosperity also explain environmental problems and offer ways to solve them.