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Why Doing Good is Not Always Easy

By recognizing the tradeoffs of recycling, preserving endangered species and improving world health, doing good could become more productive.

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Why We Need Trophy Hunting

Expensive trophy hunting packages demonstrate how the price system gives a value to animals that helps to preserve them.

Tradeoffs to Preserve Pandas
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Is the Price of Protecting Pandas Too High?

By Madeleine Vance, guest blogger and student at Kent Place School This summer, I had an incredible opportunity to travel through China including a stop to see the giant pandas in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Although the pandas didn’t…

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