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Federal Land Exchanges: Let’s End the Barter

It's time to let federal agencies buy and sell land, says Tim Fitzgerald in a new PERC Policy Series paper. Federal Land Exchanges: Let's End the Barter offers a practical way to reform the costly and time-wasting federal land exchange process.

Published on: May 22, 2000

Poverty, Wealth, and Waste

Β  In 1986, a waste-to-energy plant opened in Delhi, India, financed by the Danish International Development Agency at a cost of over $10 million. The plant was expected to generate 3.8 megawatts of electricity from garbage, and its success was to be copied in other Indian cities. However, the plant was a failure. Two […]

Published on: March 1, 2000

No – Biocorn

A Missouri farmer explains why he’s not planting it.

Published on: March 1, 2000

A Debate over Conservation:

Peter Huber’s new book, Hard Green, both supports and challenges free market environmentalism.

Published on: March 1, 2000
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The Lone Mountain Coalition

[…] The Heritage Foundation Washington, DC John A. Baden, Ph.D. Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) Bozeman, Montana Michael B. Barkey Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty Grand Rapids, Michigan Bruce Benson Department of Economics Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida John Berthoud National Taxpayers Union Alexandria, Virginia Robert Bish […]

Published on: January 1, 2000

The Greening of U.S. Foreign Policy

[…] collection of essays ultimately illustrates how expensive the greening of U.S. foreign policy has become and tells how we can find alternatives to government intervention based on free market environmentalism. If the threats of environmentalism are as real as we are led to believe, they can be handled better by returning to the traditional […]

Published on: January 1, 2000
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No ‘Commercialization’ of Yellowstone

[…] breakthroughs or, at the very least, improve consumer products. In 1997, park officials signed an agreement with a corporation that had previously been prospecting the microbes for free–Diversa Corp. of San Diego. Diversa promised to pay the park $175,000 over five years, as well as future royalties from any discoveries. Up to twenty other […]

Published on: January 1, 2000

Land Trusts or Land Agents?

[…] property that it had received as a gift. The beachfront land in the Virgin Islands was degraded and damaged and did not have any endangered animals or plants. The conservancy, whose mission was to protect endangered species, traded the beachfront property for Wisconsin land that provided nesting habitat for the hooded warbler, a rare […]

Published on: December 1, 1999

Ecosystem Management:

[…] are dynamic in space and time. . . are constantly changing,” β€œthere is no single appropriate scale or time frame for management,” and β€œboundaries defined for the study or management of one process are often inappropriate for the study of others.” How can sustainability have intelligent meaning when the entity to which ecologists would […]

Published on: December 1, 1999

Cataloging Parks

While there has been no lack of news coverage on the sad state of our national parks, there is still not enough money to shore up the buildings and patch the roads. To help fill the gap, two energetic entrepreneurs turned their disappointment over a canceled trip to Yosemite during the 1995 government closure […]

Published on: December 1, 1999