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Why conservatives should and do care about the environment.
What can be more conservative than the impulse to protect and conserve earth’s natural resources, air, water, and land, which give and sustain life. Just as political conservatism is deeply rooted in...
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The GOP’s Environmental Challenge
Can one be a social conservative or member of the GOP and be an environmentalist? Although I’ve long argued what I believe to be the fundamental distinction between being an environmentalist and a...
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Young Conservative Minds – Environmental Gloom, Doom, or Hope?
Kids say (and think) the darndest things. This weekend, my youngest daughter, Macy, and I had a great discussion on civics. Turns out she and her classmates are doing the perennial assignment of...
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The Face of Conservation is Changing – Cheers to Today’s New Leaders
The pros and cons of living in Washington DC are receiving all sorts of invitations to political events, fundraisers, forums, policy roundtables, and various other sundry functions, all aimed at...
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Student Conservation Association – helping promote environmental stewardship
For those budding conservationists in high school or college in the U.S., or those with just a passing curiosity in the topic, I highlight an organization that helped to shape my interest and career in...
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Does Green Labeling Influence One’s Willingness to Buy – Survey Says . . .
Apparently so, if you’re a political moderate or conservative. A new study from the National Academy of Sciences confirms that moderates and conservatives are less inclined to purchase...
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What is the Best Antidote to Environmental Irrationality?
The material well-being of a democratic society depends on its ability to rationally manage a nearly limitless variety of often competing risks. - Dan Kahan, 2006 Environmental rationality of course....
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Busy as a bee, unless you have CCD
Linking to a report over at ConservAmerica regarding the recent collapse of bee colonies here in the U.S. The cause is still not clear but, since 2006, over 25 percent of domestic colonies have died...
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Thoughtful Reflections on the Environment by a Conservative Thinker – An...
I had the pleasure this week of sitting down with the English philosopher, Roger Scruton, to discuss his new book, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for Environmental Conservatism. It...
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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 Wax) has set aside to convene environmental leaders to think and go...
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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 to promote innovative new ways to protect threatened...
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Crunchy Con is Back – GOP break out your Birkenstocks
Thank you to Robert Costa over at NRO for this week resurrecting the term Crunchy Con. Ever since Rod Dreher left NRO, I’ve missed Rod’s thoughtful and witty narrative on why it is okay for...
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“Nudging” versus “Coercion”– Balancing Environmental Protection with Liberty...
The recent controversy over the U.S. Government’s increased proclivity to secretly paw through the electronic communications and telephone records of Americans has prompted some soul-searching by many....
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The Farm Bill – Perhaps a Moment for Liberals and Conservatives to Hold Hands
Seems no one except special interest is happy with the Senate’s version of the Farm Bill passed today and which establishes U.S. Agricultural Policy over the next decade at the tune of nearly one...
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Reagan’s Conservation Legacy – still timely and relevant today
Eli Lehrer has a great piece today in The Blaze on the conservation legacy of President Reagan. I’m proud of having been one of the first to recognize that States and the Federal Government have a duty...
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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 chronicles China’s insatiable appetite for natural resources...
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Conservatives – or at least one nervous House staffer – call for GOP to lead...
Am posting a thoughtful article by an anonymous House GOP staffer, writing under the pseudonym, Eric Bradenson, on why conservatives need to think and act differently on climate change. Eric, or...
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EPA’s Assault on State Sovereignty
Is the title of a stinging new report by the American Legislative Exchange Council. For those who are unfamiliar with ALEC, it’s a non-profit composed of legislators, businesses, and foundations, and...
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Some Environmentalists Think and Behave Like Animals
This is where I think so many environmentalists go so terribly wrong. David Roberts over at Grist, who I think is a fairly smart fellow, couldn’t be more wrong in the way he views and discusses...
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Crunchy Con Manifesto Redux
Over the years, I’ve grown to appreciate Rod Dreher’s contributions to environmental discourse and advancing the better elements of conservativism. Some may recall his work at National Review, where...
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