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Laura Huggins, Part 1

On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.

Published on: April 28, 2010
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Laura Huggins, Part 2

On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.

Published on: April 28, 2010
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Laura Huggins, Part 3

On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.

Published on: April 28, 2010
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Laura Huggins, Part 4

On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.

Published on: April 28, 2010
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Laura Huggins, Part 5

On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.

Published on: April 28, 2010
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Laura Huggins, Part 6

On the first Earth Day, predictions of famine and catastrophe dominated the news. Today, forty years later, PERC’s Laura Huggins tells us that we have much to celebrate. Human ingenuity continues to produce new ideas and technologies that have led to environmental advances, not disasters.

Published on: April 28, 2010

Earth Day: 40 years of imminent catastrophe

[…] be discovered. Possibilities do not add up; they multiply.” New ideas and technologies proliferate at a much faster rate than population. They depend on individuals who are free to pursue their own interests and innovate with few constraints. The trouble with sky-is-falling claims is that they can lead to more government regulation, suffocating the […]

Published on: April 22, 2010

Environmental Water Markets: Restoring Streams Through Trade

[…] through water markets. Societies with strong property rights allow parties to protect their property, develop it, trade it, or give it away. They enjoy greater prosperity and freedom than societies that impose many restrictions on property or suffer from a lack of clarity in rules. As Brandon Scarborough explains in this policy series, restrictions […]

Published on: April 1, 2010
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Terry Anderson on Fox News

Terry Anderson took on the Department of Interior during a Fox News segement called “Cabinet Wrecking Ball.” Appearng Friday, March 19 on Scoreboard with David Asman, Terry says that the Department of Interior holds billions of dollars in assets in our national parks and vast public lands,Β  yet it loses billions of dollars every […]

Published on: March 19, 2010

Trash Cans Twitter Too

One man’s trash is another man’s entrepreneurial vision.

Published on: March 9, 2010