The Center researches and documents successful private efforts to conserve resources and ecologically sensitive lands, and analyzes how various legal and social institutions assist or hinder the ability of private individuals, companies, and associations to protect the environment. The goal is to document and publicize the largely unknown story of the private sector's effort of conservation and environmental protection. The Center seeks to publicize its findings through publications, speeches, roundtables, and outreach to interested organizations. Current economic policy argues for economic liberty save for those activities having environmental implications where political controls are necessary. However, every economic activity involves some environmental consequence, thus, this prescription justifies political control over all economic activity.
Ecological socialism threatens economic freedom now as much as economic socialism did earlier.
If it prevails, there will be little room for economic liberty.