Sarah Anderson and Terry Anderson discuss their findings on wildfire management and what drives Forest Service decisions in fuel suppression.
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Foodborne Illness and Plastic Bag Bans
Many jurisdictions have implemented bans or taxes on plastic grocery bags on environmental grounds. Jonathan Klick argues, however, that reusable grocery bags contain potentially harmful bacteria, especially coliform bacteria such as E. coli.
GreenFaith: Enviropreneur Showcase
This video showcases PERC Enviropreneur Institute alum Fletcher Harper, his organization GreenFaith, and the innovative ways in which religion, ecology, and economics can be combined to forge creative environmental solutions. The PERC Enviropreneur Institute has been empowering environmental entrepreneurs for twelve years in the application of property, contracts, and markets to enhance environmental assets.
The Right to Own Property on Reservations
PERC President Terry Anderson points out that American Indians and First Nations people can reach back into their rich cultural heritage and find institutions that rewarded individual initiative. The key key is for tribes to take this initiative again and for Congress to give tribal nations the rights that were once theirs.
The Statues that Walked
As part of PERC’s Lone Mountain Forum, “Reconciling Economics and Ecology,” Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo discuss their new book The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mysteries of Easter Island. The bottom line: local problems call for local solutions.
Daylight-Saving Time Is Past Its Prime
Saturday night marks the end of daylight-saving time for 2012. Time for those clocks to “fall back” an hour to standard time, when the sun really is highest at high noon. An extra hour of cold, dark fall mornings is probably the last thing you look forward to when you first wake up—or when you’reContinue reading “Daylight-Saving Time Is Past Its Prime”
Environmental Protection Up in Smoke
When the wildfires that are burning millions of acres in the West are finally smothered by winter snows, environmentalists undoubtedly will blame climate change. They might look in the mirror instead. Environmental laws since the 1970s require public input into federal land-use decisions including logging on national forests. This has led to lawsuits challenging effortsContinue reading “Environmental Protection Up in Smoke”
Of Moose and Man
That there are moose in Yellowstone today tells us something about nature and our role in it.
The Pre-Columbian World Revisited with Charles Mann
As part of PERC’s Lone Mountain Forum, “Reconciling Economics and Ecology,” PERC Board Member Steven Hayward sits down with author Charles Mann to revisit contemporary understandings of the pre-Columbian world.
Q&A with Emma Marris on the Rambunctious Garden
The science writer who is “turning the conservation movement upside down” calls for an end to notions of pristine nature.