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How Green is God?

[…] because of a portion of intervention. Be that as it may, as you think about well, is there a third way that is pretty clear that centrally planned economies, socialism hasnโ€™t worked. So many people are looking for this way, this third way, and I donโ€™t think there is one, I think that Market […]

Published on: November 30, 2009

Exploring Nature in Cyberspace

[…] do that are more than a five-second โ€˜wowโ€™,โ€ Berry said, adding that he โ€œalways hooks at least oneโ€ student into wanting to pursue some form of environmental study after high school. A CD with bird and frog calls combined with a PowerPoint presentation of 40 bird and frog pictures kicks off Berryโ€™s class every […]

Published on: September 24, 2009

Nature’s Lost Children

With an ever increasing mound of scientific research indicating that kids who spend time outside tend to be smarter, happier, and healthier, the idea that children need nature is not novel.

Published on: September 24, 2009

“And then what?”

In the early days of the ivory trade ban in the 1980s, TIME magazine showed a picture of Kenyan government officials burning tons of ivory to demonstrate their commitment to the ban as a way of stopping elephant poaching.

Published on: September 24, 2009

Water Markets: Why Not More?

[…] leading to water markets. Ms. Richards distilled her research showing how settlement can reduce the deadweight cost of litigation. As a result of her experience, she is planning to do further research in this area. Moreover, the format of the workshop so impressed her that she said she was going back to Sandia Labs […]

Published on: September 1, 2009

Milton Friedman Legacy for Freedom Day

[…] lost its faith in freedom. Government management of the economy was considered more efficient than the chaos of the free market. The communist-inspired concept of “centralized economic planning” inspired similar attempts to centralize our own economy and hope it was enough to keep up. We had lost sight of our founding idea: government that […]

Published on: July 28, 2009

Two Forests Under the Big Sky: Tribal v. Federal Management

In this policy series, Alison Berry contrasts forest management in Montana. In her comparison one forest is operated by the United States Forest Service under the watchful eye of Congress. The other is run by Indian tribes on reservation lands.

Published on: July 1, 2009

Green Jobs: Boom or Bust?

[…] create a more eco-friendly society skew the results in both number of green jobs created and salary levels of those jobs. โ€œMyth 3:ย  Green jobs forecasts are reliable.โ€ vs. โ€œFact 3:ย  Green jobs studies make estimates using poor models based on dubious assumptions.โ€ The forecasts for green jobs often optimistically predict an employment boom […]

Published on: June 8, 2009

Drill bits bite the dust

[…] is then forced through a nozzle, creating a stream of high-pressure super-heated water thatย can fracture granite with ease. The new technology is already attracting attention. A 2006 study from MIT predicted that โ€œEnhanced Geothermal Systemsโ€ such as Potterโ€™s could supply as much as 2,500 times the nationโ€™s current energy consumption, and Google Ventures has […]

Published on: June 1, 2009