Environment

Commentary

Why Anti-Growth Activism Does Not Help the Environment.

Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is closing down an El Dorado county sawmill that has been around since 1889. SPI will also close another sawmill and electric power plant in Tuolome county. Two more SPI mills in Plumas and Humbolt counties will also close, leaving hundreds of workers without jobs. One ...
Agriculture

The ‘credit crunch’: another Great Depression?

In the first part of his essay on the 1930s and today, Sean Collins puts the case for going beyond Keynesianism and monetarism and the obsession with finance to look at the deeper structural problems of capitalism. Last month Christina Romer, chair of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers, ...
Commentary

California Rejects Oil Agreement between Industry and Greens

Environment & Climate News (Heartland Institute), April 1, 2009 The California State Lands Commission has rejected an agreement by industry and environmental groups that would have allowed environmentally friendly oil production off the coast of Santa Barbara. According to the commission, the economic and environmental benefits of the agreement are ...
Climate Change

Free Market Energy Experts Doubt Effectiveness of Obama’s Green Jobs Policies

CNSNews.com, March 24, 2009 Lux Libertas, March 24, 2009 Green Being, March 24, 2009 (CNSNews.com) – While President Barack Obama touted a greener future for America on Monday, free-market economists expressed skepticism about the prospects of green jobs and how effective government spending will be for long-term energy policy. The ...
Business & Economics

Putting Women’s History Month to Good Use

It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s take another look at the greatest woman of our time. We recently considered “There is No Alternative,” a book about Margaret Thatcher by Claire Berlinski, who did not know her. In the interest of gender fairness, we turn to Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of ...
Environment

Cap and Trade in the Western States

In a review of the claims made by the Western Climate Initiative, the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in Boston identified several flaws made by the seven-state consortium, calling into question claimed cost savings ranging between $11.4 billion and $23.5 billion. These flaws render WCI’s projections useless in determining ...
Commentary

Regarding the Economics of Environmentalism, A Response to CAP’s Brad Johnson

GlobalWarming.org, March 20, 2009 OpenMarket.org, March 20, 2009 Over at the Center for American Progress, Brad Johnson, my sometimes interlocutor, takes issue with a recent Gallup poll for giving a “false choice between environmental protection and economic growth.” The subject of Johnson’s analysis is a report on the Gallup website ...
Agriculture

The Libertarian Perspective On California Water

Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
Environment

Get Off the Lawn

A lush green lawn has a certain aesthetic appeal, there’s no denying that. If lawn was counted as a crop, however, it would be one of the nation’s biggest, but it is far from a critical need as far as water use. Yet, watering lawns accounts for nearly 40 percent ...
Agriculture

Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments

Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...
Commentary

Why Anti-Growth Activism Does Not Help the Environment.

Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is closing down an El Dorado county sawmill that has been around since 1889. SPI will also close another sawmill and electric power plant in Tuolome county. Two more SPI mills in Plumas and Humbolt counties will also close, leaving hundreds of workers without jobs. One ...
Agriculture

The ‘credit crunch’: another Great Depression?

In the first part of his essay on the 1930s and today, Sean Collins puts the case for going beyond Keynesianism and monetarism and the obsession with finance to look at the deeper structural problems of capitalism. Last month Christina Romer, chair of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers, ...
Commentary

California Rejects Oil Agreement between Industry and Greens

Environment & Climate News (Heartland Institute), April 1, 2009 The California State Lands Commission has rejected an agreement by industry and environmental groups that would have allowed environmentally friendly oil production off the coast of Santa Barbara. According to the commission, the economic and environmental benefits of the agreement are ...
Climate Change

Free Market Energy Experts Doubt Effectiveness of Obama’s Green Jobs Policies

CNSNews.com, March 24, 2009 Lux Libertas, March 24, 2009 Green Being, March 24, 2009 (CNSNews.com) – While President Barack Obama touted a greener future for America on Monday, free-market economists expressed skepticism about the prospects of green jobs and how effective government spending will be for long-term energy policy. The ...
Business & Economics

Putting Women’s History Month to Good Use

It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s take another look at the greatest woman of our time. We recently considered “There is No Alternative,” a book about Margaret Thatcher by Claire Berlinski, who did not know her. In the interest of gender fairness, we turn to Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of ...
Environment

Cap and Trade in the Western States

In a review of the claims made by the Western Climate Initiative, the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in Boston identified several flaws made by the seven-state consortium, calling into question claimed cost savings ranging between $11.4 billion and $23.5 billion. These flaws render WCI’s projections useless in determining ...
Commentary

Regarding the Economics of Environmentalism, A Response to CAP’s Brad Johnson

GlobalWarming.org, March 20, 2009 OpenMarket.org, March 20, 2009 Over at the Center for American Progress, Brad Johnson, my sometimes interlocutor, takes issue with a recent Gallup poll for giving a “false choice between environmental protection and economic growth.” The subject of Johnson’s analysis is a report on the Gallup website ...
Agriculture

The Libertarian Perspective On California Water

Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California’s vast water supplies to its growing water demands. In practice, this means ending the subsidies that make water for agriculture cost ten times less than ...
Environment

Get Off the Lawn

A lush green lawn has a certain aesthetic appeal, there’s no denying that. If lawn was counted as a crop, however, it would be one of the nation’s biggest, but it is far from a critical need as far as water use. Yet, watering lawns accounts for nearly 40 percent ...
Agriculture

Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments

Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable. Tim Alderson, 47, of Pasadena, has been appointed to the Schools’ Agriculture and Nutrition Program ...