Revenue reform needs allies and the likeliest allies of public recovery of ground rent are defenders of the environment.

Entry into commercial space travel could bring reduction in environmental damage costs, find new resources and unlimited related applications; productivity gains for next boom.

Once we heal Earth, we not only heal ourselves but also enrich whoever ends up with the fatter rents for healed land.

Economist Fred Harrison talks with conservationist Peter Smith about how the economy produces environmental disasters, and what solutions can create a environmental sustainability.

Target the most sensitive body part—the wallet. Make prices tell the truth. Earth as object of speculation? Not with geonomics.

Cities cater to cars, not people. New fuels, motors, and modes of transport all pale beside fewer, shorter trips.

You want efficient buildings yet you tax them—improving them raises their tax liability. How rational is that? Not very. So do something else!

The carbon tax advocated by Bill Gates can limit climate-changing pollution, but it has to be on the emissions.

The knee-jerk ideas won't suffice. Big problems need big solutions—powerful, big-picture solutions. Like geonomics.

Billions of dollars will go to the chiefs of the less developed economies, with little benefit to the people of these economies, while much deforestation will continue anyway.

The “cap and trade” law passed by the House of Representatives also contains command-and-control regulations that affect owners of dwellings.

Pollution control is mandatory if humanity is to survive, but the way that governments world-wide are going about it is astonishingly insane

Climate engineering is inherently a bad idea, and should not even be considered.

The proposed federal government budget mposes higher taxes on incomes above $250,000. One of the provisions is that charitable donations would no longer be tax deductible.

Ron Paul could win the Republican primary election for president and then the general election in 2008 if he adopts a winning policy for the environment

Unfortunately, Krugman has used his forum to promote the status-quo big-government welfare-state programs that have been the problem rather than the solution.

Tectonic change is what we need

If Al Gore had made climate change the single top priority during his Vice Presidency, he could have secured a larger legacy

Carbon credits trade actual pollution for a hypothetical reduction in the uncertain future

France and UK push for lower taxes on "green" industry