Fresh water is scarce and has alternative uses. Should oysters in Florida to be valued more highly that watering lawns and growing crops in Georgia? This June 2 New York Times article, “A Fight...
If you care about fish and the health of fisheries, or even just debating about fisheries, here is a book to put high on your summer reading list. University of Washington aquatic and fishery...
Marine natural resources range from ecosystems to fisheries to oil and gas to watery real estate. Here is a short presentation on building your home at sea, with notes from the Dubai Palm Island...
This is part two of a draft presentation for students considering the marine natural resources debate resolution. I discuss fisheries, technology, and property rights. Near the beginning, discussing substitutes, I mean to say that...
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...
Liquid Robots to Measure the Seas “If it matters, measure it” argues The Fraser Institute, a think tank in Vancouver, BC. Good public policy requires good data and constant measurement. Measuring water resources matters,...
The Winter Holidays Open in Zagreb features a final motion on environmental cost accounting: WHO 2018 FINAL MOTION: THW oblige companies to price in environmental burden in the cost of their products. An Investopedia post...
• Economic Engagement with Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela Study Guide (for 2013 NSDA topic and relevant for 2018-2019 immigration reform topic). Excerpt: The elephant in the room for U.S./Mexico policy continues to be legal and illegal...
Marine natural resource policy was a Stoa debate topic two years ago. Ocean shipping and regional and global fishing issues and disputes turn out to be significant for the coming year’s Stoa resolution: Resolved:...
Why be stupid about California water, fish, and energy? Federal marine natural resource policies, not nature, are at the heart of stupid for California’s recent water shortage. The Federal government’s Central Valley Project “annually...
