The Cato Institute is far from the only organization spinning the snake-oil salesman line about how the commons are best preserved by being sold...

For many, the idea of assets and ecosystems is too abstract. Commodities like timber are too dry (sometimes literally) and boring to care about....

What exactly are these commons you’re supposed to protect? You, as an American citizen, own an incredible wealth of natural resources. Maybe the magnitude...

In 2006, I penned a series of posts explaining the myriad reasons why we (meaning the United States) as a nation need to protect...

What a conundrum… can we, as environmentalists, support wind power as a clean, safe, eminently renewable energy source or should we, as birders, decry...

Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Spotted Greenshank. Chinese Egret. Far eastern Curlew. Black-faced Spoonbill. Saunders’s Gull. Great Knot. If you’re a regular reader of this site, chances...