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Who Owns the Environment? Part I

Tracy Mehan, March 23, 2019, Religion and Nature, Christopher Costello, environmentalism, fisheries, Henry Butler, IFQs, Individual Fishing Quotas, ITQ, Jesus, John Baden, nature, original sin, PERC, private property, Religion and environment, resource management, sustainability, sustainable fisheries, sustainable forestry, sustainable forests, Terry Anderson, tragedy of the commons, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Umberto Eco, who owns nature, 0

In Umberto Eco’s medieval mystery, The Name of the Rose, there is a famous scene in which Franciscans, Dominicans...

Who Owns the Environment? Part II

Tracy Mehan, March 23, 2019, Featured Article, Religion and Nature, Aristotle, Brent Haglund, Cicero, earth, environmental protection, environmentalism, Founding Fathers, John Locke, Lynn Scarlett, Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Mehan, medieval church, Nature Conservancy, PERC, philosophy, private property, public property, Sandy County Foundation, state of nature, 0

I recently posted an item here, on Conservefewell.org, attempting to reconcile rights to and in private property with the...

Jay Faison’s Efforts to Green the GOP (and save the Planet) Through Clean Energy

Brent Fewell, March 11, 2016, Climate Change, Free-Market Environmentalism, clean energy, ClearPath Foundation, climate change, conservatism, conservative principles, energy independence, environment, environmentalism, hydropower, Jay Faison, Nuclear, solar, wind, 0

I’ve long argued that the GOP’s ceding of environmental issues to the political left was not only bad for...

Republicans Don’t Hate the Environment – Just Some Environmentalists

Brent Fewell, August 18, 2014, The Environment and Politics, Bill McKibben, Chris Mooney, climate change, Climate Hawk Votes, conservative principles, Democrats, environmentalism, Jonathan Adler, politicization of environmentalism, polluter pays, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Teddy Roosevelt, Van Jones, Wedge Issue, 1

Lest we forget, the GOP is the Party of Teddy Roosevelt, founding father of our National Wildlife Refuge system,...

Reed Watson, the New Face of Free-Market Environmentalism

Brent Fewell, April 2, 2014, Free-Market Environmentalism, Breakthrough Institute, Clemson University, David Hawking, Death of Environmentalism, Duke University, environmentalism, Enviropreneurship, free-market environmentalism, government solutions, Nordhaus, NRDC, PERC, Reed Watson, Shellenberger, Terry Anderson, water markets, 0

UPDATE: Conservefewell welcomes Reed Watson to its team of conservation bloggers. * * * I had a chance recently...

A Socialist and Capitalist Find Common Ground

Brent Fewell, February 23, 2014, The Environment and Politics, Bob Simpson, Communism, Daily Kos, environmentalism, Gar Alperovitz, Jonathan Adler, private property, Socialism and environment, tragedy of the commons, water pollution, watersheds, 0

I’m always in search of a good challenge. And so, periodically, force myself out of my comfort zone in...

Celebrating Aldo Leopold’s 127th Birthday

Laura Huggins, February 9, 2014, Conservative Conservationism, Agriculture, Aldo Leopold, conservation, Conservation Economics, environmental stewardship, environmentalism, federal subsidies, Greener Than Thou, harmony with land, land ethic, Land Pathology, PERC, private property, public ownership, Terry Anderson, The Essential Aldo Leopold, The Round River, 1

Aldo Leopold is considered an icon of the environmental movement―primarily for his call for a heightened environmental consciousness in...

An Introduction

Rick Otis, January 23, 2014, EPA, environment, environmental, environmental protection, environmental stewardship, environmentalism, free-market environmentalism, GOP, next generation, performace track, 0

Well, you’ve heard from several of my compatriots here at Conservefewell. I thought it time I introduced myself. You...

Is EPA Really Essential?

Brent Fewell, January 9, 2014, EPA, bureaucracy, bureaucritization of environmentalism, CEI, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., conservation, David Schoenbrod, environment, environmentalism, freedom, incentives, Jonathan Adler, liberty, Marlow Lewis Jr., motives, NRDC, Peter Lehner, private property rights, regulatory agency, society, Tracy Mehan, 0

“Just abolish EPA.” I heard it again this week from a friend, when discussing the agency’s renewed focus on...

Conservatives, Young People, and the Environment in 2014

Marianne Horinko, December 11, 2013, The Environment and Politics, conservation, conservative, democracy, economy, environment, environmentalism, Generation X, Generation Y, GOP, hydraulic fracturing, ideology, optimism, quality of life, Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, young poeple, young voters, younger generation and the environment, 1

Since the 2008 election cycle, conservatives have lamented the loss of constituencies key to cobbling together a winning vote:...

Human Carrying Capacity – Fanciful Fiction or Deadly Reality

Brent Fewell, September 20, 2013, Conservative Conservationism, Species Protection, carrying capacity, conservation, environment, environmentalism, Erle Ellis, human population, Isle Royale, Malthus, moose, overpopulation, predator-prey dynamics, Roger Scruton, sustainability, Tracy Mehan, University of Maryland, wolves, 0

One of the first courses I took in college toward my degree in wildlife management was a population dynamics class. ...

The Decline of GOP Environmentalism or Decline of Environmentalism Itself

Brent Fewell, September 1, 2013, Climate Change, Free-Market Environmentalism, The Environment and Politics, Boston Globe, climate change, conservation, decline of environmentalism, Decline of Republican Environmentalism, Democrat, Eli Lehrer, environmentalism, George Bush, Good Samaritan, GOP, Nordhaus, Paul Sabin, politicization of environmentalism, politics, R Street Institute, Republican, Shellenberger, The Breakthrough Institute, 7

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

Real Christians Don’t Believe in Climate Change – Really??

Brent Fewell, August 13, 2013, Climate Change, Christian Views on Climate Change, climate change, Cornwall Alliance, Environmental Envangelism, environmentalism, Evangelical Environmental Network, Green Dragon, Patrick Micheals, Richard Lindzen, Roger Pielke, Roy Spencer, Rush Limbaugh, 0

During my commute into DC yesterday for a lunch meeting, I had my radio tuned to Rush Limbaugh when...

China – A Growing Threat to the Earth

Brent Fewell, June 19, 2013, Climate Change, Conservative Conservationism, Energy and Resource Extraction, EPA, Free-Market Environmentalism, Species Protection, The Environment and Politics, Water Issues, China, conservation, conservative, Craig Simons, Diane Rehm, environmentalism, NPR, pollution, Russell Kirk, The Devouring Dragon, 1

Listened to a sobering interview yesterday on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, with Craig Simons, author of the new book, The Devouring Dragon, which...

An Intriguing But Not-So-Bizarre Tale Involving EPA

Brent Fewell, May 8, 2013, Climate Change, Energy and Resource Extraction, EPA, Water Issues, climate change, conservation, environmentalism, Gina McCarthy, Haida Salmon Project, ocean fertilizing, Russ George, Tracy Mehan, 0

A couple of months back I posted about a promising geoengineering development here, Save the Planet – plant a...

Do We Really Need a New Shade of Green Environmentalism?

Brent Fewell, April 2, 2013, Free-Market Environmentalism, Uncategorized, capitalism, conservationism, conservative, environmental stewardship, environmentalism, Green, misanthropy, Ross Robertson, 0

I begin with an apology for the title of this post, but no other title quite captures the gist...

The GOP’s Environmental Challenge

Brent Fewell, March 2, 2013, Conservative Conservationism, The Environment and Politics, academic elites, Bush EPA, conservation, conservatism, Duke, environmentalism, GOP, Jonathan Adler, Lynn Scarlett, Nicholas School of the Environment, Republican, Robert Redford, Rod Dreher, Roger Scruton, SoCon, SoConLib, Terry Anderson, 1

By Brent Fewell Can one be a social conservative or member of the GOP and be an environmentalist? Although I’ve long...

The Bureaucratization of Environmentalism – can we survive good intentions?

Brent Fewell, February 18, 2013, Conservative Conservationism, Water Issues, bridge, bureaucratization, bureaucrats, conservative, environmentalism, EPA, incentives, Orvis, Rockville, stormwater, stream, Trout Unlimited, water, water quality, wildlife habitat, 4

Humans – are we but a mere earthly plague?

Brent Fewell, January 25, 2013, Species Protection, conservatism, environmental protection, environmentalism, Sir Dave Attenborough, Wesley J. Smith, 1

By Brent Fewell Sir David Attenborough has certainly stirred the pot with his recent name calling. Are humans but...

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Tag Archive for: environmentalism

Who Owns the Environment? Part I

Who Owns the Environment? Part II

Jay Faison’s Efforts to Green the GOP (and save the Planet) Through Clean Energy

Republicans Don’t Hate the Environment – Just Some Environmentalists

Reed Watson, the New Face of Free-Market Environmentalism

A Socialist and Capitalist Find Common Ground

Celebrating Aldo Leopold’s 127th Birthday

An Introduction

Is EPA Really Essential?

Conservatives, Young People, and the Environment in 2014

Human Carrying Capacity – Fanciful Fiction or Deadly Reality

The Decline of GOP Environmentalism or Decline of Environmentalism Itself

Real Christians Don’t Believe in Climate Change – Really??

China – A Growing Threat to the Earth

An Intriguing But Not-So-Bizarre Tale Involving EPA

Do We Really Need a New Shade of Green Environmentalism?

The GOP’s Environmental Challenge

The Bureaucratization of Environmentalism – can we survive good intentions?

Humans – are we but a mere earthly plague?

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