Energy
Start the New Year Right with Some Good News!
Just before Christmas, Matt Ridley published a piece in the Spectator under the title, “We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously.” It’s a good antidote to the…
Sustainable development
mode of human development that meets current demands without compromising the needs of future generations
Liberty
Trump rejects G7’s agenda
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily praise President Trump for standing apart from his G7 counterparts. President Trump created a quite a stir among the other Western leaders by refusing to…
Liberty
Are supplies of “finite” natural resources really fixed?
View in your browser. 1. Are supplies of "finite" natural resources really fixed? Pick your natural resource: oil, land, copper, coal, you name it. At one time or another, it…
Liberty
Lifelines for the Sustainable
A meeting convened in Hendersonville to celebrate “accepting, funding, and supporting sustainable economic developments.” Using words this way, potable water would become a liquid deadly until treated. Commendable would mean…
Liberty
Easton examines an alternative to government foreign aid
Nina Easton‘s latest Fortune column explores the impact of private-sector efforts to provide a more effective alternative to taxpayer-funded foreign aid. Coca-Cola, operating mostly under the media radar over the…
Liberty
Plan to Unplan
Here we go again. Everybody wants Smart Growth, but infill development obscures views and sunlight in the NIMBY metro space. Cities don’t need buildings, they need greenspace for pedestrian interaction.…
Liberty
Researchers tackle taxes, incentives, sustainability, Common Core, and more
More than 200 school teachers who work for St. Thomas More Academy, Franklin Academy, and the three Thales academies heard a keynote address one week ago on sustainable development and…
Energy
The Limits to Panic
That’s the title of a fantastic post by Bjørn Lomborg taking to task the Club of Rome’s 1972 doomsday forecast, The Limits to Growth: We were doomed, because too many…
Liberty
Three Cheers for the Green, Green, and Green
A small area west of Bryson City may have found the clue to greening America.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
U.S. Government Services Administration (GSA) is “going green”
If you like bureaucrats who sing and dance, this video is for you.
Energy
Sustainability as a racket
Those of you who read Roy Cordato’s 2008 Macon Research Series report might remember his admonition to political leaders who are interested in sustainability: So long as there is a…
Liberty
Elections, ozone, and other items of interest
The State Board of Elections decided Thursday that Chapel Hill could not use any matching funds this fall for its taxpayer-financed election campaign program. Before the board meeting, Daren Bakst,…