image – Tim Cantor
MATCHING THE PROBLEM TO EACH LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT
When the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Earth Day arrived this past spring, there was much to feel good about. Significant strides have been made in protecting the earth’s biological envelope, and environmental awareness has surely been heightened. But there was also a [...]
BIG TREE DATABASE
This section is where the great trees of the world are catalogued; the canopy producing, water retaining, carbon absorbing, timber producing big trees of the world. A database is to be created allowing each tree to be recorded in fields for:
- name of tree
- lifespan
- height
- diameter
- growth rate
- climate zone
- actual range
- [...]
image – Tim Cantor
ecoworld.com
Issue #4
Fall 1995
LETTER FROM RINGSIDE
THE ECOWORLD PHILOSOPHY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LAND RIGHTS, WHY DO THEY MATTER?
THE PROPERTY RIGHTS REBELLION
By Bruce Yandle
Reprinted from PERC Reports, October 1995
Bruce Yandle, a professor at Clemson and one of the most entertaining and astute speakers I have ever heard, also has editorial skills aplenty. One of the [...]
ecoworld.com
Issue #4
Fall 1995
A CONVERSATION WITH THE SUN
image – Tim Cantor
THE GAIA OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
nature and technology in harmony
The deep ecologists surely believe in Gaia, the living earth, the single integrated, beautiful entity whose lungs are the living forests and whose arteries are the life-giving crystal clear rivers. What could be more logical than [...]
ecoworld.com
Issue #4
Fall 1995
THE PROPERTY RIGHTS REBELLION
“Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation”
Fifth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
Today, all across America, people are focusing on a major constitutional issue: their right to control the use of their land and property. Landowners in the East are concerned about restrictions on their land [...]
