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Everyone calm down, there is no “bee-pocalypse”
On Atlantic Media’s business news site, Quartz.com, research fellow Shawn Regan explores the resurgence of worry over colony collapse disorder.
A Will for the Woods
A new documentary, A Will for the Woods, highlights a growing trend in what is known as “green burials.” The Green Burial Council was launched with the help of PERC Enviropreneur Institute alum Joe Sehee.
Board Profile
Martin Hostettler, a forest economist and engineer, lives in Switzerland. He provides practical insight to how PERC can build on more than thirty years of success solving environmental problems with market solutions.
Transaction Costs and Environmental Markets: The Role of Entrepreneurs
As published in Oxford Journal’s “Review of Environmental Economics and Policy,” Terry Anderson and Nick Parker show that entrepreneurs guide the evolution of property rights, which in turn can lower the transaction costs of using markets to solve environmental problems.
Food Safety: A Market Solution?
The command-and-control viewpoint isn’t illogical. The American food supply is one of the safest in the world. But I submit that the current system fails to tap creative, market-based incentives to further improve food safety.
Steve Hayward Talks Climate on CNBC
President Obama unveiled drastic new regulations on Tuesday to curb greenhouse gas emissions. PERC board member Steve Hayward previewed the president’s speech earlier this week on The Kudlow Report.
Regulation as Stimulus
The White House continues its aggressive stimulus program by issuing ever more stringent controls over energy use. Unfortunately, the benefits are illusory and the costs are significant.
Taking a mulligan on the ethanol mandate
In a state known for its golf, Floridians understand the concept of a mulligan. That’s why five years after passing a costly ethanol mandate, Florida lawmakers opted for a do-over.
ReGrowing Agrarian Roots
Agriculture as a stable, prosperous way of life is practically extinct. It doesn’t need to be. We have the power within our consuming choices to make a remarkable difference. Although the small family farm is being squeezed out by massive consolidation in industry and by bloated and counterproductive bureaucracy, it is ultimately the consumer whoContinue reading “ReGrowing Agrarian Roots”