Posts tagged “stewardship”

The Report Was Always Going to Win

Five Centuries Under One Crown laid out the mechanism in the abstract: once a municipality commissions a hazard report on a tree, the report itself becomes the […]

Five Centuries Under One Crown

Somewhere in the American South, or on a chaparral hillside in California, there is very likely a live oak — one of a handful of evergreen *Quercus* species that share the name for their wide, low, spreading crowns — that […]

The Social Liberty Implications of a Municipal Biodiversity Initiative

Palo Alto's Parks & Recreation Commission recently stood up a small ad hoc committee to strengthen biodiversity and pollinator connectivity across the park system. It's the kind of item that disappears from public attention within a week — it shouldn't. There's a real social liberty argument buried in it.

To Subsidize Is To Tax

The social cost of the tax that pays for the subsidy is greater than the gain to the buyers, because the extra buyers are able to to buy it at less than the market price. A subsidy lets people buy stuff below the price that would be set in a market. In a free market, […]