It's been 32 years since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring launched the modern environmental movement. Over 70 percent of Americans now call themselves "environmentalists." And the movement has achieved some spectacular successes: The environment is, by most measures, cleaner and safer today than it has been at any time in the past five decades. And still the environmental movement employs a "crisis of the month" strategy to enroll members and attract funding for their cause. Why do environmentalists so rarely take credit for the dramatic improvements they helped make possible? The authors of Eco-Sanity argue compellingly that the environmental movement has become a victim of its own success. Having delivered the message of impending doom for decades, it knows no other strategy. The world has changed dramatically since the 1960s and the environmental movement has yet to discover its appropriate role in the new world. The authors of Eco-Sanity encourage the environmental movement to take credit for the successes it has achieved and to adopt tactics and strategies more appropriate to the realities it now faces. They present "rules for eco-sanity" and a common-sense agenda designed to ensure that the modern environmental movement will meet the challenges of the future with as much success as it did the challenges of the past.

Eco-Sanity: A Common Sense Guide To Environmentalism

Business & Money

Peter J. Hill

Joseph L. Bast

Richard C. Rue

Economics

Madison Books

This book is for parents, teachers, policymakers, taxpayers, and everyone who wants great schools for children regardless of their race, social background, and parents' income. Our thesis is that America once had great kindergarten-to-twelfth grade (K-12) schools, and wouold have them once again if parents were put back in charge of their children's education by being free to choose the schools their children attend. School vouchers--tax-funded certificates or scholarships that parents can apply toward the tuition of private schools--are the mechanism for making school choice a reality. Widespread adoption of school vouchers will take place only when majorities of voters and opinion leaders are convinced that a system of competing private and public schools would be better than the current public school monopoly, and are moved to act on their convictions. Creating a sound basis for that conviction and decision to act is the purpose of this book.

Let's Put Parents Back in Charge! (English and Spanish Edition)

PHD.

Herbert Walberg

The Heartland Institute

In the series of articles that compose this small book, Joseph Bast uses common sense, real science, and the (almost) lost art of critical thinking to refute and debunk the outlandish claims and comments made by anti-smoking fundamentalists and those who have found great profits in fueling the hysteria.

Please Don't Poop in My Salad

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rarely have more people in the United States been so deeply concerned about the direction of their country as right now, in 2010. During the past two years, millions of men and women have literally marched in the streets for political change, and surveys show their views are supported by the great majority of other Americans. They are not demanding new entitlement programs or threatening to strike if their demands are not met. They simply want their country back. As this book's title suggests, they are patriots who want to restore the country's freedom and prosperity. The most visible part of this uprising, called the Tea Party movement, arose in response to the enormous government bailouts of banks and insurance companies launched by President George W. Bush and overseen by President Barack Obama, and then the massive spending initiatives and government takeovers of formerly private businesses during the first 18 months of the Obama administration. The new patriots perceive that these developments contradict basic American ideals and historical practice. They are right.rose in response to the enormous government bailouts of banks and insurance companies launched by President George W. Bush and overseen by President Barack Obama, and then the massive spending initiatives and government takeovers of formerly private businesses during the first 18 months of the Obama administration. The new patriots perceive that these developments contradict basic American ideals and historical practice. They are right.
This book is offered as a guide to public policy for patriot-activists in the Tea Party movement as well as for candidates for public office, incumbent office holders, civic and business leaders, and journalists assigned to cover the movement. It consists of eight chapters, seven of them previously published by The Heartland Institute as booklets in a series called Legislative Principles and one written specifically for this book. Together, they provide a comprehensive collection of practical, evidence-based principles in the major fields of legislation. Additional research and commentary can be found on The Heartland Institute's Web site.

The Patriot's Toolbox: First Edition

George, Gilder

Leonard Gilroy

Matthew Glans

Hance Haney

Eli Lehrer

Adrian Moore

Steve Stanek

Richard Vedder

Herbert J. Walberg

Reference

Years of fad education strategies have left us with a public education system that largely rejects the tried-and-true method of using rewards to spur student achievement. This book shows how rewards motivate students to learn and how their appropriate use accelerates learning. For some readers this merely confirms the ancient commonsense view that "incentives matter." Children seek praise from adults and strive to win in competitions with their peers while adults work harder for recognition, raises, promotions, and other rewards.

Rewards: How to use rewards to help children learn - and why teachers don't use them well

Economic stagnation, political ineptitude, and social turmoil have reduced prosperity and harmony in America. Several problems have been made worse by more government intrusion. Bloated bureaucracy has decreased liberty and government accountability while increasing government's size and cost. The Patriot's Toolbox brings together the best ideas for solving the country's biggest problems and restoring the American Dream. The fourth edition includes all the tools a patriot needs to debate pressing topics, solve vexing problems, take advantage of current opportunities, and reform sclerotic institutions. The Patriot's Toolbox... * Provides a set of bold solutions to improve the quality of health care and education while simultaneously decreasing the costs. * Exposes the fallacies of the leftist agenda while offering innovative policies in the areas of energy, environmental protection, and telecommunications. * Outlines tax and spending plans for states and the national government that will create jobs and generate wealth. * Proposes constitutional reforms to decrease the size and power of the national government.

The Patriot's Toolbox: Fourth Edition

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