[…] manage growth. The idea was to restrict the use of public funds for development to areas where public infrastructure was already being supplied. Counties were to submit plans to the state showing where they wanted growth to occur. These “priority funding areas” would be eligible for state infrastructure financial assistance, but projects outside these […]
[…] these areas, forests remain locked in time beneath the newly formed lakes. Limited harvesting took place in these forests prior to flooding. The relatively short timeframe to plan and build a dam (2 to 5 years) versus the relatively long timeframe to log the standing timber (10 to 20 years) made the economics of […]
[…] mission to include educational programs. Audiences in these programs included journalists, congressional staffers, professors, and college students. Especially with journalists, we aimed at wholesaling the idea of free market environmentalism to a much broader audience. Now with publications such as PERC Reports and the PERC Policy Series, we are marketing free market environmentalism ourselves. […]
[…] of them would have been killed and cattle would have replaced them. In the 1880s, a buffalo hide (the only part of a bison that could be easily shipped to eastern markets) was worth $3 in Miles City, Montana. A cow was worth $20 to $25 (see The Not so Wild, Wild West by […]
[…] York City and the Conservancy renewed their contract for eight more years. City Hall committed $25 million to the Conservancyβs $100 million βCampaign for Central Parkβ capital-repairs plan. (After just three years, this seven-year fundraising appeal already has collected $111 million.) From 1980 through FY 2008, the Conservancy will have spent some $500 million […]
[…] people who could win. Itβs like winning the lottery, actually.β βEric Maskin, 2007 co-winner of Nobel Prize in Economics Β Kennedy the Friedmanite: Β βIn a true free market economy you canβt make yourself rich without enriching your community. What polluters do is they raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the […]
[…] the looming possibility of legislation that will regulate packaging. Wal-Mart, the worldβs largest retailer, is ahead of the curve on this one. Last year, it announced a planned reduction of 5 percent in packaging by 2013. If this is accomplished, it will save the giant retailer $3.4 billion. It works like this: Less packaging […]
[…] initial costs for the various energy-saving technologies will be recouped within seven to ten years. Because of this relatively short payback period, the building will operate virtually free for most of its life span. Proof of the efficiency achieved by this project was clearly demonstrated this past summer. While temperatures in Athens rose to […]
[…] far this year, the federal government has held five sales, leasing nearly 640,000 acres of its Montana land for energy exploration and development. Six more sales are planned for 2008. This push is driven by rising energy prices and potential royalty, rent, and bonus revenues for the government. In 2006 alone such revenues amounted […]
[…] Coca-Cola headquarters killed its fountains. But such gestures are marginal. The real threat from drought isnβt economic; itβs political. More than oil, scarce water splits nations, rations freedom and erodes trust. Alabama, Florida and Georgia sued over dwindling reservoirs. Maryland challenged Virginia over Potomac River currents for the first time since the Civil War. […]