William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, Roger Meiners, Andrew P. Morriss

Green Jobs: Boom or Bust?

An aggressive push for a green economy is underway in the United States. Policymakers routinely assert that “green jobs” can simultaneously improve environmental quality and reduce unemployment.

Patty Limerick

Celebrating Wallace Stegner's Most Quotable Words

Through the vitality and wisdom of his written words, Wallace Stegner remains an influential presence in the American West.

Linda Platts

Drill bits bite the dust

As the push for green energy continues to gain momentum, new wind and solar projects are popping up as quickly as dandelions.

Linda Platts

Down on the urban farm

Some farmers go to work on a tractor and some drive a truck, but in San Francisco and a growing roster of other American cities, farmers hop the bus to work or show up on their bicycles with their hoes in tow.

Linda Platts

What's your wattage

Let’s face it. Even in a world where we share the intimate details of our lives online, some things are still private.

Alison Berry

Fueling the Future

Saws are buzzing on national forests, but these are not your typical logging operations. Instead of taking down big trees for shipments to lumber mills, loggers are cutting saplings and clearing brush from the understory.

La Monica Everett-Haynes

Unquenchable: America's water crisis and what to do about it

The United States must come to terms with its lavish use of water and, at the same time, figure out serious solutions to the immediate problem related to access to water.

Daniel Benjamin

Property Rights and Prosperity

Secure property rights are central to economic prosperity. It was the emergence of secure property rights that laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent explosion of per capita incomes.

Readers Speak Out

I’m torn. Some of my fondest Montana memories come from days of fly-fishing publicly accessed streams. In contrast, I’ve also conducted redd counts on one of the state’s most highly contested “stream access” streams and witnessed first-hand the natural resource benefits of privatization.

Spencer Banzhaf

And Environmental Justice For All But Liberty Comes First

In 1982, some 450 activists were arrested protesting the construction of a hazardous waste facility in Warren County, N.C., a primarily poor, black community.