Ethanol was once touted as a panacea to high fuel costs, energy independence, and even global warming. Now, after billions of taxpayer dollars and government mandates for its use, ethanol has become the usual suspect in global food shortages, skyrocketing food prices, and increased environmental degradation.
[…] made from grass-fed beef at the drive-through window, prepare for a revolution. Hundreds of small farmers and ranchers around the country are supplying fast food restaurants with free-range chicken, all natural beef, and pork from barnyard pigs. As the restaurant chains have grown and expanded into new markets, the small producers have prospered as […]
Economists devote page upon page of their textbooks to discussions of βpublic goods,β arguing that markets wonβt supply them.
On the European front, a battle is raging over the rights to the title of first ecological nightclub.
There is a crossroads in Texas. Down along the Mexican border, in a four-county area, sits the Lower Rio Grande Valleyβa merger of tropics and subtropics.
In the late 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began encouraging the use of market forces to improve water quality in rivers, streams, and coastal waters.
Desertification is occurring in almost 30 percent of China and salinization affects 10 percent of the nation.
[…] by printing out the cards and sharing them with friends and family who are interested in the link between private resource ownership and environmental stewards ship. No Free Lunch for Wildlife Private Lands, Public Wildlife Saving Our Streams Private Property and the Public Trust Media Presentations For those in the media, PERC will distribute […]
[…] and the Environment.” Cory Carmen Wallowa, OR Cory Carmen was raised on a cattle ranch in Wallowa Valley, Oregon, where her family has lived since 1913. After studying at Stanford University and working in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, she returned to rural Oregon in 2003. In response to a huge demographic shift and […]
[…] is the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the executive director of the Property and Environment Research Center in Montana. SR: Should free-market entrepreneurialism lead the way in making our economy more environmentally-friendly, or does the government need to intervene? TA: Government regulations from 1970-2000 picked the low hanging […]