In the wake of the 2012 Colorado fires, PERC President Terry Anderson and former PERC fellow Sarah Anderson take a look at the motivating forces behind Forest Service fuel management decisions.
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Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities
PERC Conference Center Bozeman Montana July 30 – August 2, 2012 Directed by Dr. Dino Falaschetti Agenda Papers Introduction In 2012 PERC continues its workshop series on “Property Rights, Markets and the Environment.” One of these workshops will focus on Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities to be held July 30–August 2, 2012, at theContinue reading “Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities”
Save Rivers, Destroy Trees
PERC Enviropreneur Institute Alum James Workman discusses the water-wildfire nexus and why we should save rivers and destroy trees.
Saving African Rhinos
AUDIO: In 1900, the southern white rhinoceros was the most endangered of the five rhinoceros species. Less than 20 rhinos remained in a single reserve in South Africa. By 2010, white rhino numbers had climbed to more than 20,000, making it the most common rhino species on the planet.
Could the Health Care Decision Hobble the Clean Air Act?
Sackett v. EPA was the big environmental case from this past Supreme Court term, but the Court’s decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the health care case, could actually turn out to have the larger effect on environmental law. While most commentators on NFIB focused on the Commerce Clause challenge to the individual mandate, the argumentsContinue reading “Could the Health Care Decision Hobble the Clean Air Act?”
Q & A with Godwin Nnanna on the Niger Delta and Pollution
Godwin Nnanna is the investigations editor for Business Day, Nigeria’s leading financial daily based in Lagos. He has been a journalist since 1997 and has won a number of international and local journalism awards for his writings. Godwin has spent the last week at PERC as a Media Fellow, exploring free market environmentalism and property rights. Continue reading “Q & A with Godwin Nnanna on the Niger Delta and Pollution”
Meet Jeremy Gingerich, PERC Enviropreneur
After two weeks of workshops, mentoring sessions, and networking, this year’s 14 enviropreneurs head home to implement the innovative market-based conservation strategies they explored at PERC’s 2012 Enviropreneur Institute. Check out what one enviropreneur, Jeremy Gingerich, has to say about protecting open landscapes in the west and how his time at the Enviropreneur Institute will help himContinue reading “Meet Jeremy Gingerich, PERC Enviropreneur”
Whose Fracking Rights?
Denis and Barbara Prager fear the day that hydraulic fracturing takes place on their land in the Shields Valley of Montana. The threat of ‘fracking’ is real and there is nothing they can do. While the Prager’s own the surface rights to their property, the state owns the subsurface and mineral rights. The state has theContinue reading “Whose Fracking Rights?”
Growth is Green
“Economic growth is green,” says Dino Falaschetti, PERC’s new executive director. Growth occurs only when markets are allowed to work to move goods and services from low-productivity uses to high-productivity uses. “Making more with less is conservation. Making more with less is sustainable,” adds Falaschetti. “When environmental policy puts growth at risk, it is brown, notContinue reading “Growth is Green”
Sustainable Landscapes
PERC Enviropreneur Institute (PEI) Alum Jeremy Gingerich talks about the importance of open landscapes and how the skills from PEI will help him achieve his goals.