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By Kabeia Rineakia Brock Sutton Allen What if you woke up one day and entrepreneurship was dead? That’s the question posed by Shopify founder and CEO Tobias Lütke in a piece printed in the [...]

Photo by Max Rovensky on Unsplash By Alicia Birrell Golden rice is now legally raised in Bangladesh! After a long, painful, political, and even violent battle, Bangladesh’s government announced [...]

By Augusta Scott In 2009, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to a woman for the first time in history. Political scientist, Elinor Ostrom, introduced a unique research method to the field [...]

By Kabeia Rineaki Brock Sutton Allen “Despite my vested interest in the movement I was never sure what to expect at my first Seasteading event. The individuals online ran the gamut of crazy to [...]

by Carter Harrison With each passing year, the discussion about climate change and pollution becomes more intense and direct. Some scientists and legislators have gone as far as toplace a [...]

By Ian Nemelka Back in November of 2018, Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a preliminary outline of her new vision called the ‘Green New Deal’ and more recently published [...]

By Alicia Birrell Every year the Thanksgiving season marks the beginning of the holiday shopping frenzy. This past year there were 33 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That means that [...]

(Photo credit: Chris McGrath) By Ian Nemelka During the November elections, voters rejected the majority of state ballot initiatives intended to curb climate change. In Arizona, an amendment to [...]

(Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash) By Augusta Scott Cache Valley’s winter temperatures are cold enough to make even the most dedicated outdoorsmen retreat indoors until March. If that applies to [...]

Photo Credit: Eli Lucero/The Herald Journal via AP By Ian Nemelka I live in Mendon, Utah at the foot of the Wellsville Mountains in Cache Valley. It is a quiet little town for the most part, [...]

Image from lookingatthewest.com By Carter Harrison For most Utahn’s, winter means two things: beautiful snow and terrible air. In Northern Utah, along the the densely populated Wasatch Front, air [...]

Image: Blue Frontiers By Kabeia Rineaki Brock Sutton Allen Earlier this month I dedicated my 27th birthday to a fundraising cause, specifically the Seasteading Institute. Within 24 hours the goal [...]

Photo shows feral horses dead from starvation at a stock pond in Gray Mountain. (Photo: Navajo Nation) By Ian Nemelka The common perception of “wild” horses is actually wildly inaccurate. [...]

Photo from Mental Floss By Carter Harrison If you have spent any time on social media over the last 6 years, the face of the blobfish might be familiar to you. Now, don’t you worry, this isn’t [...]

By Ian Nemelka While I was working for the United States Senate, I once found myself speaking to a woman from Helper, Utah regarding multiple use on public lands. She, a member of a local [...]

By Ian Nemelka State officials in Utah are planning to bid off their publicly owned golf courses to private managers. Although this movement has been ever present in the minds of a few citizens [...]

By Alicia Birrell Being in the outdoors will give you a love for the outdoors. There is a supposed conflict between the planet’s well-being and human interest. There is also a considerable amount [...]

Photo Credit: Frédéric Paulussen by Ian Nemelka Every year, Chapman University conducts a survey regarding America’s biggest fears. Pollution and global warming have typically made the top ten on [...]

By Randy Simmons Today is Constitution Day, the day when we celebrate the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. It was a momentous time in our history and there were many [...]

Photo by Donald Giannatti By Ian Nemelka Remember when the cost of a gallon of gas was teetering between $5 to $6 dollars a gallon in many regions of the United States? Well it is largely due to [...]