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“Nudging” versus “Coercion” – Balancing Environmental Protection with Liberty and Freedom

The recent controversy over the U.S. Government’s increased proclivity to secretly paw through the electronic communications and telephone records of Americans has...
A Conservative Discussion on Climate Change – My Interview with Bob Inglis

I had the pleasure of recently sitting down with Bob Inglis to discuss his views of life, liberty and...
Brian Yablonski to Succeed Reed Watson at PERC

Brian Yablonski will succeed Reed Watson as the Executive Director of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), the...
Maryland Promotes Market-based Environmentalism

Governor Hogan this week, under the leadership of Benjamin Grumbles, Secretary of Maryland’s Department of Environment, released draft regulations...
Scott’s Miracle-Gro Teams with Alliance for the Bay – Commits to Cleaner Water

Everyone loves a green lawn, until that green turns local streams and waterways green with nasty algae. And then the...
Beer Drinking Improves Water Quality – Kudos to Flying Dog Brewery

Seems to be a malt theme running through some of these positive developments. Recently, we reported here regarding the...
Jay Faison’s Efforts to Green the GOP (and save the Planet) Through Clean Energy

I’ve long argued that the GOP’s ceding of environmental issues to the political left was not only bad for...
“Food & Water Lies” – FWW Stands in the Way of Environmental Protection

Rod Dreher, one of my favorite conservative authors, once wrote the following as part of his 10-point crunchy con...
Virginia is Eating Our Lunch . . . and Our Crabs – Maryland needs a new playbook on environmental restoration

Maryland’s recent election was about change. It was about improving the economy, creating more jobs, and reducing government spending...
Kudos to Washington DC’s Department of the Environment for Accelerating Environmental Restoration

For those interested in and following emerging market-based solutions to environmental protection and restoration, I offer another exciting data point...
Accelerating Environmental Protection Through New Market Approaches

Linking here to an article this past week that my friend and law partner, Brooks Smith, and I wrote for...
Land Trusts as a Sign of American Vitality

The growth of the private land trust movement in the United States has often been cited as a premier...
Reed Watson, the New Face of Free-Market Environmentalism

UPDATE: Conservefewell welcomes Reed Watson to its team of conservation bloggers. * * * I had a chance recently...
New Dawn for Emerging Water Markets – 21st Century Tools

I’m honored to have the opportunity to testify next week before Congress on the topic of water quality trading...
Prize Money and Environmental Improvement

In 1995 Dava Sobel wrote a fascinating book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the...
Trust, Farmers, and Water Quality Trading

The essence of the Clean Water Act (CWA) is its prohibition of the discharge of any pollutant into the...
With the recent passing of Ronald Coase, much tribute has rightly been given to his inordinate contributions to the...
Connecting the Dots, Collecting the Drops

By Brent Fewell I love this picture – as it puts into perspective the importance of Earth’s finite water...
Africa’s Black Rhino Driven to Extinction

Very sad news to learn of the confirmed extinction of Africa’s western black rhino. The black market for rhino...
Our National Treasures – Was Secretary Watt Correct?

By Brent Fewell Interesting article in American Spectator this week by Robert Smith titled, An Environmentalist Deception, wherein Smith...
The Decline of GOP Environmentalism or Decline of Environmentalism Itself

By Brent Fewell Paul Sabin has an article in this weekend’s Boston Globe titled “The Decline of Republican Environmentalism.” Sabin,...
More Chicken Wings, More Environmental Challenges

We have a lot of chickens in Maryland. And, in fact, we humans are outnumbered 1,000 to 1 along...
Some GOP Propose Taxing Carbon Not Income to Mitigate Climate Change

By Brent Fewell Art Laffer, former Reagan economic advisor, and Bob Inglis, former GOP Congressman from South Carolina, discuss...
To EPA’s New Administrator – Don’t Forget About the Water

As many of you who read this blog know, I talk a lot about the water problems that still plague...
Conservation 2.0 – regulations alone won’t fix a broken earth

By Brent Fewell I spent some quality time this week in the wonderful city of Cincinnati, home of the...
China – A Growing Threat to the Earth

Listened to a sobering interview yesterday on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, with Craig Simons, author of the new book, The Devouring Dragon, which...
Reagan’s Conservation Legacy – still timely and relevant today

By Brent Fewell Eli Lehrer has a great piece today in The Blaze on the conservation legacy of President...
The Loss of Aesthetics in the Name of “Greening”

For you weekend warriors, before you go out and purchase “plastic wood” for that next deck project, you may want...
Changing the Dialogue, Economics and Cultural Valuation of Species Protection

Props to Todd Gartner, of the World Resources Institute, and Laura Huggins, of the Property and Environmental Research Center, for joining efforts...
Emerging Markets are Helping Accelerate Environmental Restoration

Spent several days this week in Racine, WI, at the Johnson Foundation’s Wingspread, which the H.J. Johnson Family (think SC Johnson...
Does Green Labeling Influence One’s Willingness to Buy – Survey Says . . .

By Brent Fewell Apparently so, if you’re a political moderate or conservative. A new study from the National Academy of...
The Face of Conservation is Changing – Cheers to Today’s New Leaders

By Brent Fewell The pros and cons of living in Washington DC are receiving all sorts of invitations to political...
Do We Really Need a New Shade of Green Environmentalism?

I begin with an apology for the title of this post, but no other title quite captures the gist...
Free-market Environmentalism – Creating Sustainable Incentives

By Brent Fewell Great article today by Brad Plumer of WaPo regarding my friend, Jonathan Adler, arguing why conservatives can...
Nature’s Resilience – Chesapeake Bay and Signs of Hope

By Brent Fewell Promising news flowing from the Chesapeake Bay. U.S. EPA is reporting that pollutants, such as phosphorous,...
Tragedy of the Commons Strikes Again

By Brent Fewell We each have them, those childhood experiences that shape our life perspective and canvas our memories of youth. ...
Society’s “little platoons” for conservation

By Brent Fewell I’ve just finished a new book that is a must read for the political right (and...
Conserving Nature by Conserving Liberty

By Brent Fewell In a newly released article, The Heritage Foundation offers the following eight principles for conservation: People are the...
"The biggest challenge to the environment, as I see it, is the life-style of modern people –
fast food, packaging, pets, urban sprawl, and other things which can be rectified only slowly and only through a concerted effort of education."
― Conservative Philosopher & Author, Roger Scruton
"ConserveFewell is the place to go for some serious environmental sanity, and alternatives to the usual slop."
― Author and Political Commentator, Steve Hayward
fast food, packaging, pets, urban sprawl, and other things which can be rectified only slowly and only through a concerted effort of education."
― Conservative Philosopher & Author, Roger Scruton
"ConserveFewell is the place to go for some serious environmental sanity, and alternatives to the usual slop."
― Author and Political Commentator, Steve Hayward
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