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Pacific Research Institute/AEI Press
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| ISBN: 978-1-934276-03-7 |
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A number of significant developments and milestones in environmental progress took place in 2006 but were largely drowned out by the media attention devoted to climate change, according to the 12th edition of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators.
As it has done over the past dozen years, the Index shines a spotlight on, and deepens Americans' understanding of, environmental progress--the side of the environmental story that is seldom told. Positive trends are occurring in key areas such as national forests, air quality, toxic chemicals, and biodiversity.
For the first time, the Index comes equipped with a DVD documentary--An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction?--that presents an alternative to the climate extremism that is popular with Hollywood and other pessimistic enclaves. (The trailer is available at www.aconvenientfiction.com.)
Steven Hayward is a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He has been the author of PRI's annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators since its launch in 1994. He is also the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders (CrownForum) and The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980 (PrimaForum), the first of a two-volume treatment of Reagan's place in American public life.
Amy Kaleita is an environmental studies fellow at the Pacific Research Institute and an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University. Dr. Kaleita holds a B.S. in agricultural engineering from Penn State University, an M.S. from the University of Illinois in civil engineering, with an emphasis on environmental hydrology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in agricultural engineering, with an emphasis on agricultural technology development for environmental conservation. Dr. Kaleita is involved in scientific research on impacts of agriculture on the environment, as well as on environmental monitoring and modeling.
