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.

Linda Platts

Urban Trees Leave a Legacy

In Eugene, Oregon, the number of trees that are cut down each year goes largely unnoticed. They suffer from a variety of conditions such as disease, rotting of trunks and roots, old age, and others that make them hazardous to city dwellers if the big “fellas” take a tumble onto homes, cars, streets, or sidewalks.Continue reading "The Road to an Epiphany"

Carol Ferrie

Impressions

  Fifteen years ago, an academic publisher quietly released Free Market Environmentalism by Terry Anderson and Don Leal. At the time, few mainstream environmentalists or politicians saw the book. But since its publication, free-market environmentalism spurred a quiet revolution in environmental policy. Now its views and policy approaches are starting to be taken seriously inContinue reading "The Road to an Epiphany"

Letters to the Editor

PES model needs replicating Coming from another Latin-American country, it was very informative for me to see [in “Bees and Barbed Wire for Water,” December 2006] this case of payments for environmental services (PES) working effectively. When we are talking about property rights in Latin American and Caribbean countries, we always have to deal withContinue reading "Letters to the Editor"

G. Tracy Mehan III

These Lands are Your Lands

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