Linda Platts

The Beauty of Parking

Solar panels and parking lots have teamed up for what some in the solar industry are calling extraordinary dual use.

Linda Platts

Floating Islands, Filtered Water

Kania constructs bio islands from a mesh fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.

Linda Platts

Golf Course Makeover

Just a few years ago golf courses were considered an environmental abomination, wasting precious water, spewing runoff contaminated with fertilizers and insecticides, and replacing wild meadows and woodlands with monotonous manicured landscapes to serve the country club set.

Reed Watson

A chance to close the judicial takings loophole

This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, a case that raises the question of when, if ever, a judicial decision constitutes a taking of private property.

Readers' Forum

Is “nature deficit disorder” a pandemic or a farce? Share your thoughts about environmental education

Megan Gurdon

Scary green monsters

Contemporary children are so drenched with eco-propaganda that it's almost a waste of resources. Like acid rain, but more persistent and corrosive, it dribbles down on them all day long.

Brian Yablonski

The National Parks: America's Best Idea Made Better?

America is about to rediscover her national parks. To great fanfare, Ken Burns’ epic documentary, "The National Parks: America’s Best Idea," premieres on PBS this fall.

Kimberley Yablonski

Nature's Lost Children

With an ever increasing mound of scientific research indicating that kids who spend time outside tend to be smarter, happier, and healthier, the idea that children need nature is not novel.

Terry Anderson

"And then what?"

In the early days of the ivory trade ban in the 1980s, TIME magazine showed a picture of Kenyan government officials burning tons of ivory to demonstrate their commitment to the ban as a way of stopping elephant poaching.

Daniel Benjamin

The value of environmental amenities

Do people really care about improvements in the environment? As silly as this question might sound, it has proven remarkably difficult for economists to pin down a precise answer.