When Donald Leal and I wrote Free Market Environmentalism in 1991, we mostly theorized about how property rights and markets could enhance environmental quality. We focused more on political failures than market successes because there were more of the former than the latter.
[…] right are working and the case studies to support them are being documented. Defenders of Wildlife, for example, applies the tenets of FME to its wolf compensation plan; Oregon Water Trust uses water markets to purchase or lease water for fiΒsh habitats; and the World Wildlife Federation launched the CAMPFIRE program in southern Africa […]
Nobel Laureate sees promise in the future of the environment using markets.
[…] these ideas. As a result, the world has certainly changed. In 1990, Environmental Defense persuaded the first Bush administration to adopt a cap-and-trade system to halve power- plant emissions of sulfur dioxide, a major cause of acid rain. The plan was hugely controversial. The utility industry insisted the cuts would trigger a βclean-air recession,β […]
Rod Sprules, an engineer with extensive experience in product development, made the first java log by packing an empty cigar tube with dried coffee grounds and lighting it at the dining table.
[…] South Carolina over to Texas. Montana happens to fall on the brown side of the environmental dividing line, which is probably not unreasonable for the period under study (1970β2000). To measure the environmental stance of a governor, the authors use state expenditure data on ο¬sh and game, forests and parks, and on other natural […]
[…] down. In one Eugene neighborhood, a 100-year-old tree that had outlived its years left behind an unusual legacy. Local homeowners organized a ceremony honoring the old tree and planted new ones that eventually will replace the old giant. And the tree itself yielded 1,500 board feet of lumber that will live far into the future.
PES model needs replicating Coming from another Latin-American country, it was very informative for me to see this case of payments for environmental services (PES) working effectively. When we are talking about property rights in Latin American and Caribbean countries, we always have to deal with issues like lack of land tenure, especially titles. […]
The eyes of a keen conservationistΒ are opened.
If you like the scent of cooking turkey, you would probably like living in Plano, Texas.