At the National Marine Protected Areas Center website you can find this explanation of government MPAs: MPAs are internationally recognized as a means for conserving natural, historic, and cultural marine resources. Through protection of...
After listening to a NPR segment on invasive and very large Burmese pythons in Florida (Animal CSI), I noticed a number of similar NPR segments: Pythons Blamed for Everglade’s Disappearing Animals, and Will Florida Pythons...
Jay Fidell, writing in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, argues against proposed state legislation that would block open-ocean fish farms. (State must save, not end, open-ocean fish farming, Feb. 6, 2011) Fidell notes: One-third of ocean...
“If it matters, measure it.” The Fraser Institute, a think tank in Vancouver, BC, argues that good public policy requires good data and constant measurement. For evaluating current marine natural resource policies as well...
The theme of the April 2013 issue of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum is “Conservative Visions of Our Environmental Future.” Articles are available individual pdf files, and look interesting. Jonathan Adler’s article, is...
Interested in starting a company likely to make millions while creating jobs and providing Americans with high-quality, nutritious, and tasty meals? Step one: take your entrepreneurial energy and investment capital to another country and...
If wetlands and other marine ecosystems are such a good thing, why not pay for them? Most people think attending college is a good thing, so families are willing to pay and students are...
This April 25, 2013 Wall Street Journal article, “Chilly North Sea Comes Back to Life: New Technology Is Set to Liberate Natural Gas That for 25 Years Was Trapped Beneath Sea Floor,” tells the story...
This Michael De Alessi Freeman article is from 1997, but private ocean reef construction continues. Here is an article on a state-mandated Edison artificial reef in California. De Alessi notes that: private ownership of...
Vast amounts of energy are available from falling water, especially from major rivers here in the Pacific Northwest. About the only place in Washington state where water doesn’t have a vertical fall to generate...
