21st Annual Essay Contest 2011
Topic: Consume or Conserve?
Essay contest deadline: March 11, 2011
A variety of public and private initiatives seek to encourage consumers to conserve natural resources in order to slow resource depletion or minimize environmental impact.
Curbside recycling in a city
Land that is set aside through private or public initiatives
Mandatory fuel standards or tax credits for hybrid vehicles
Carbon taxes or cap and trade systems
Green building codes
The 2011 Economic Essay Contest, Consume or Conserve?, asks you to judge one of these conservation initiatives or one of your own choosing. Use basic economic concepts, such as scarcity and opportunity costs, and fundamental economic models, like supply and demand, to analyze the merits and effectiveness of a specific conservation plan or environmental regulation. The initiative that you analyze might be local, national or global in scope. In your essay, describe the plan and its benefits, evaluate the costs of the plan and draw a conclusion about the effort.
Contest Details
The contest is open to 11th and 12th grade students attending schools in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District, which covers Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico. Participants submit essays to the appropriate office of the Dallas Fed, as determined by the location of their school. See the list of Eleventh District counties to determine the appropriate office.
Gene,
ReplyDeleteI found what you are looking for on QE2.
There's a lot of economics in it that's wrong, in my view, but it's worth a look.