Spitting In The Ocean
Ken Kesey had a literary journal in the 1970s called Spit in the Ocean. I think that the thought was, the universe is a big and long lasting place and we are just specks here for a moment. In the face of that, we take our best shot and we do, sort of, spit in the ocean. While there is not much literary about this page, the posts below are shots for environmental economics. They promote the idea that more rational management of our environment requires getting the incentives right and adopting rules that keep the interests of some from detracting from the interests of us all.
If anyone out there sees holes in what is posted here, or if you have ideas that you would like to post, contact me and maybe I'll post those too.
RW - Editor & CBW
- The Invisible Economist and Eco-System Services Markets
- Policy Palooza
- Gap Closers and Gap Causers
- Victory in the Oyster Wars
- Regulate Chesapeake Bay Agriculture? A Reply to Howard Ernst
- The Farmers Shoot the Moon
- Perceived Barriers to Marginal Cost Pricing
- Worrying about the fundamentals
- Do we know what we need to know to restore the Chesapeake Bay?
- Nine out of Ten Chesapeake Bay Restorazzi Agree - We have not been achieving our restoration goals.
- How You Can Help Maryland Achieve the Chesapeake Bay TMDL
- Don't Despair for Restoring the Chesapeake Bay
- Everybody's an Economist - Where are the Economists?
- Restricting the supply of environmental restoration services - Why should we care whether a provider of useful services is incorporated as a for-profit or a not-for-profit? Read Article
- When do we get to talk straight about Maryland's oyster resource?
- Science, Economics and the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Effort
- DNR secretary quizzed on state's oyster program - That's the headline in the Sunday edition of our hometown newspaper, The Star-Democrat. As is so often the case in local papers with a clientele to consider, it is commentary posing as reporting. Its author betrays his preferences in his first sentence, noting that, in this fight it is "watermen against bureaucrats". Read Article
- Efficiency Pricing Part 2: Does it make sense to try to get more for our money? Read Article
- Telling People Things That They Don't Want to Hear. Read Article
- Putting our money where our science is: Is there something practical that Chesapeake Bay restoration managers might do to increase nutrient load reductions at any given budget? Read Article
- Waiting for Columbia: Big changes are afoot for the Chesapeake Bay Program. Right? Read Article
- Motivating Energy Conservation at the Root: Pogo's observation, "We has met the enemy and they are us" has many applications. Read Article
- Meat and Atmospheric Carbon: Can the greenhouse gas emissions problem be resolved vegetatively? Read Article
- Managing Maryland's Oysters: We have gotten oyster management wrong in Maryland for the past 185 years. Might that change next year? Read Article