California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency. Political emergencies give governments additional power to regulate, coerce, and otherwise make people change behavior. California government agencies want people to use less water until the...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. – William Blake, Auguries of Innocence...
Marine natural resources like other natural resources have multiple uses. Coastlines and offshore lands can be left alone, or can be developed for housing, fishing, recreation and other uses. Offshore lands can be improved...
BigThink features a video by Mark Tercek of The Nature Conservancy, titled Green Infrastructure Outperforms Gray. I thought it might be about bicycle paths vs. roads or forests vs. gravel pits. Instead, the topic...
Eco-nomics by Richard L. Stroup Review by Lauren Blankenship If you asked most people what they think of capitalism, they will likely Look Inside on Amazon… conjure images of the little man from the Monopoly game exploiting...
The world’s oceans hold many treasures. As students debate reforming marine natural resource policy, should policy for sunken treasures be included? The Economist’s March 2013 article “Fortunes ahoy” reports on various disputes over recovering...
But it is important that the conservation community and the public learn to think skeptically about messages of a forthcoming apocalypse as well as about messages of “everything is wonderful.” — Peter Karelva, Nature...
Researching marine natural resource policies for an Economic Thinking workshop in Huntsville, I surfed into Alabama’s entrepreneurial artificial reef program. Alabama’s limited coastline is listed as just 53 miles, except on the Encyclopedia of...
Popular Science has a recent post about a 60,000 ton ancient rock structure discovered in the Sea of Galilee. The structure of stacked basalt rocks is some 70 meters by 10 meters: The site...
Just as we learn the Earth has stopped warming for awhile, climate concerns have been turned to the Pacific Ocean. The Seattle Times published a full-color supplement last sunday titled “Sea Change,” funded by the Pulitzer...
