By Lexi Feinberg Once an icon of the American west, bison are now hazed through costly government-driven efforts and killed in droves around Yellowstone National Park during the winter. Their crime: migrating outside of the park’s borders onto public and private land in Montana, searching for food. Fueling the slaughters is ranchers’ fear of brucellosis,Continue reading “Sharing”
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The waste of recycling
In most cases, recycling is a profligate use of natural and human resources.
Get excited about recycling? Not me
Recyling household trash makes people feel warm and fuzzy, but its not good for the environment.
Talking Green in Yellowstone
Stimulus spending for green jobs is short sighted. The solar panels produced can make electricty for less, but will eventually cost more to replace.
Paul Schwennesen honored in global essay contest
Paul Schwennesen an Enviropreneur-in-Residence at PERC and a former fellow at the Enviropreneur Institute is one of seven top winners in a global easy contest sponsored by the SEVEN Fund in Cambridge, MA.
The topic was the “morality of profit.”
Free market environmentalism: Private sector better at preservation
Free Market Environmentalism is better at managing natural resources than the government. The oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico is a recent example.
FME: Exploring the Tough Questions
Young scholars from various discipline challenge the PERC founders of free market environmentalism on what works, what could work in the future and how to address large scale problems such as climate change, and also when markets are not the so. They will also discuss situations where markets might not work best or might not work at all.
Obama pushes TR’s top-down land management style
Obama’s Great Outdoor Initiative is not a bottom-up approach, but once again a top-down effort that will create more government programs and reduce local control.
Earth Day: 40 years of imminent catastrophe
By Laura E. Huggins On this 40th anniversary of Earth Day, prepare to be bombarded with apocalyptic tales of disaster. But don’t let the gloom-and-doom-fest get you down. Odds are the doomsters will be wrong. To help "celebrate" the first Earth Day in 1970, biologist Barry Commoner wrote, "We are in an environmental crisis whichContinue reading “Earth Day: 40 years of imminent catastrophe”
Enviropreneur Institute 2010
Agenda Readings Faculty PERC’s 10th Enviropreneur Institute begins June 27, 2010. From among the many qualified applicants, the faculty has selected 16 participants for this year’s program. Their information and CVs are available to view as well as those of faculty members and mentors, who are past participants in the institute. The readings are password protected; onlyContinue reading “Enviropreneur Institute 2010”