Cato Institute has a new edition of its magazine Cato Unbound dedicated to "the political economy of recycling." There is a great wealth of information in this issue, and myths on both sides of the green debate are explored. Its great reading.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Cato Unbound: The Political Economy of Recycling
Cato Institute has a new edition of its magazine Cato Unbound dedicated to "the political economy of recycling." There is a great wealth of information in this issue, and myths on both sides of the green debate are explored. Its great reading.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
From CATO: The Miracle that Is the iPhone (or How Capitalism Can Be Good for the Environment)
By Marian L. Tupy
Last week I asked a friend of mine if he could recommend a good white noise machine. “Why don’t you,” he responded, “download an iPhone app instead?” I did and the app works just fine. That got me thinking: what other gadgets do I no longer have or could do without thanks to my iPhone? I put together a short list and asked Lauren Kessler from Cato’s art department to create the lovely graphic below. Of course, “dematerialization,” or using less material and energy to produce more goods, is not new.
Last week I asked a friend of mine if he could recommend a good white noise machine. “Why don’t you,” he responded, “download an iPhone app instead?” I did and the app works just fine. That got me thinking: what other gadgets do I no longer have or could do without thanks to my iPhone? I put together a short list and asked Lauren Kessler from Cato’s art department to create the lovely graphic below. Of course, “dematerialization,” or using less material and energy to produce more goods, is not new.
Read the rest of the article here.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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