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RecycleBank serves over a 100,000 customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. In Wilmington 90 percent of residents reduced garbage going into the landfill by 40 percent. With “tipping fees” at $70 a ton, that yields of savings of $800,000, half of which the city shares with RecycleBank.
This Earth Day finds many more companies moving into a wide variety of environmental services, products and markets. It seems to be worth their while thus encouraging more of the same.
Incentives matter: this is a fundamental principle of free market environmentalism. Making money through the provision of environmental amenities creates powerful motivation for conservation and cleaner technologies to the benefit of all.
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A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?
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How’s the Fishing? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt: