Laura Huggins

The Hard Questions for Free Market Environmentalism

The foundation of PERC has always been high-quality academic research rooted in the principles of property rights and markets. It was this focus on research that led to Terry Anderson and Donald Leal’s influential 1990 book Free Market Environmentalism—the first comprehensive argument for “rethinking the way we think” about the environment. With the third editionContinue reading "PERC Reports Winter 2011 Comments"

PERC Reports Winter 2011 Comments

Deeply held mistrust of property rights in Africa I just read Gregg Zachary’s most interesting article in PERC Reports (Winter 2011) about property rights in Uganda. I’ve been based here in Kenya for some 45 years and now research mainly economic impacts of property rights. What never ceases to amaze me is the deeply heldContinue reading "PERC Reports Winter 2011 Comments"

Sarah Anderson

Think Local: When and for Which Environmental Problems?

Matching the size of government to the size of the problem

Daniel Benjamin

Cheap water, deadly water

Waterborne diseases are responsible for 20 percent of deaths in children under the age of five. Microbes such as E. coli found in fecal matter cause diarrhea that kills by dehydrating its victims. Such organisms are routinely found in the springs, wells, lakes, and rivers used as water sources in the developing world. Naturally-occurring springs,Continue reading "PERC Reports Winter 2011 Comments"

Charles Kolstad

The Promise and Problems of Free Market Environmentalism

Free market environmentalism has a lot to offer, but Kolstad says the case for FME is weaker when dealing with environmental goods such as clean air.

Linda Platts

Not Your Typical Day In Treepod Park

Artificial trees do the job of real trees - removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Linda Platts

Keep your eye on the sky

Airships, similar to blimps, may be the future of cargo transport.

Linda Platts

A Few Ferrates Could Change the World

An ancient technology to purify water meets modern water needs.

Roger Meiners

The devil's black gold

“Chevron Guilty of Polluting the Amazon” reported Greenpeace on its website in February. Chevron was ordered by a court in Ecuador to pay $9.5 billion in damages for injuries imposed on people and the environment in Ecuador from its oil operation. Does Greenpeace think “justice” is likely in Ecuador? It is one of the mostContinue reading "PERC Reports Winter 2011 Comments"

G. Tracy Mehan III

Cadillac Desert: A classic a quarter century later

This classic of conservation literature is still illuminating important lessons today.