G. Tracy Mehan III

These Lands are Your Lands

Why free market environmentalism is the magnum opus of a new generation of greens.

Matt Ridley

The Road to an Epiphany

The eyes of a keen conservationist are opened.

From Farm to FME

Growing up on a farm in Kansas provided an invigorating childhood—learning about crops and animals, befriending pet chickens, and shooting rabbits for dinner with an 1890 vintage lever action 12-gauge Winchester. My early interaction with the “environment,” coupled with the ideas associated with free market environmentalism (FME), which were so eloquently put forth in TerryContinue reading "From Farm to FME"

Thomas Bray

A Eureka Moment

Nobel Laureate sees promise in the future of the environment using markets.

Fred Krupp

Tapping the Market for a Cleaner Environment

Making environmental protection profitable leads to results.

Daniel Benjamin

Politics and Environment

Do single-issue voters matter? Recent evidence suggests that, when the issue is the environment, the answer is “yes.”

Terry Anderson

Free Market Environmentalism

When Donald Leal and I wrote Free Market Environmentalism in 1991, we mostly theorized about how property rights and markets could enhance environmental quality. We focused more on political failures than market successes because there were more of the former than the latter.

Linda Platts

Java Lights Your Fire

Rod Sprules, an engineer with extensive experience in product development, made the first java log by packing an empty cigar tube with dried coffee grounds and lighting it at the dining table.

Linda Platts

Turkey Fryer Leftovers Power a Revolution

If you like the scent of cooking turkey, you would probably like living in Plano, Texas.

Linda Platts

Workers Adapt to a Snail's Pace

Life has never been easy in the poor Western Cape township of Vyeboom, South Africa. Yet many illiterate, rural people migrated there from Eastern Cape Province seeking work picking fruit. Instead, they have found a promised land, of sorts, picking snails.