Chevron CEO: “The Imperative of Affordable Energy” (Moral substance trumps...
“It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant and reliable.” - Robert Bryce, “Five...
View ArticlePERC: Free Market Environmentalism in Action
The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through private property rights and markets. Founded 30...
View ArticleFree Market Environmentalism: Julian L. Simon Memorial Award Remarks
“We appear to be on the Road to Serfdom, paved with green bricks rather than red bricks…. It is actually likely that the United States is now approaching State ownership of about 50 percent of all its...
View ArticleKenneth P. Green: 20 Years in the Energy/Environmental Movement (Part II)
[Editor note: Part I yesterday described Ken Green’s current responsibilities at the Fraser Institute and Canadian energy/environmental issues. Today’s post covers Green’s early interest, education,...
View ArticleRight on Green: In Search of Authentic Free-market Environmentalism (Book...
“Conservative Me Too-ism is well represented in Responsibility & Resilience, at times almost to the point of tedium. The two American politicians with entries in the volume – former California...
View Article‘No Left Turns’ (self-interested conservation at UPS)
“UPS engineers found while studying the performance of its truck fleet that left-hand turns were a major drag on efficiency. Turning against traffic resulted in long waits in left-hand turn lanes that...
View Article“Seven Principles of Sound Environmental Policy” (Hayes and Myers on...
Two leading free-market environmental scholars are Jason Hayes, Director of Environmental Policy at Mackinac Center for Public Policy (Midland, Michigan) and Todd Myers, Director of the Center for the...
View ArticleResourceful Earth Day (celebrate freedom, innovation)
“What many environmentalists seem incapable of understanding is that resources are created. After all, crude oil is just sludge until you get it out of the ground and figure out how to use it as an...
View ArticleNuclear Power: A Free Market View
Ed. Note: This interview with Robert L. Bradley Jr. by Jane Shaw Stroup appeared earlier this week at the Liberty and Ecology website of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research. Comments are...
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