Category: Environment

Man reading an e-book on the shore of a forest lake at sunset.

^{Bruce Chapman
April 16, 2024
Environment}

Published Today: The Conservative Environmentalist

_{Bruce Chapman
April 16, 2024
Environment}

Published today is Benji Backer's book on how government ties up sound conservation policy in red tape that immobilizes real reform. Benji is a University of Washington grad I was proud to have as a Chapman Fellow at Discovery Institute a few years back. Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
May 30, 2021}

Without Dirty Mining, You Can’t Make Clean Cars

_{Debra J. Saunders
May 30, 2021}

If Biden is serious about America beating China in the race to produce the most EVs, Washington should be pushing for U.S. mining which China cannot disrupt. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
March 8, 2019
Environment}

Chapman Fellowship Alum Benji Backer Appears on Fox News to Discuss Flaws of the “Green New Deal”

_{Discovery Institute
March 8, 2019
Environment}

President of the American Conservation Coalition and Chapman Fellowship alumni Benji Backer joins Todd Starnes on Fox Nation to discuss the flaws of the proposed "Green New Deal" as well as the need for more conservatives to act on environmental issues. Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman
May 15, 2015
Economics, Environment, Foreign Policy, Science, Technology & Democracy}

Israeli Tech Can Slake World’s Water Thirst

_{Bruce Chapman
May 15, 2015
Economics, Environment, Foreign Policy, Science, Technology & Democracy}

Nursery flowers watered with drip irrigation in Israel

California wastes water and blames the drought for the resulting shortages. Arizona is better off. Israel is the world leader, however, in water-related technology. Most of the Middle East exports terrorists; Israel exports technology to create a more verdant and abundant future.

Here is a series of connected articles that explain Israel’s innovations in drip-irrigation (much discussed also in George Gilder’s The Israel Test), drought resistant crop development, desalinization, squeezing water out of dew and creating winter-fed cisterns like the Nabateans used 2000 years ago in the “rose red” city of Petra. Read More ›