'd like to offer you a different view: You can be totally committed to conservative principles -- to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes -- and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism.
So what is Green Conservatism? Here are its basic values:
1. Green Conservatism favors clean air and clean water.
2. Green Conservatism understands biodiversity as a positive good.
3. Green Conservatism favors minimizing carbon loading in the atmosphere as a positive public value.
4. Green Conservatism is pro-science, pro-technology and pro-innovation.
5. Green Conservatism believes that green prosperity and green development are integral to the successful future of the human race.
6. Green Conservatism believes that economic growth and environmental health are compatible in both the developed and developing world.
7. Green Conservatism believes that we can realize more positive environmental outcomes faster by shifting tax code incentives and shifting market behavior than is possible from litigation and regulation.