Viv Forbes
Viv Forbes Credentials Degree in Applied Science Geology, and Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Background Viv Forbes is the chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, which was created to โdefend the role of carbon on earth and in the atmosphere,โ and […]
D. James Kennedy Ministries
D. James Kennedy Ministries Background D. James Kennedy Ministries, formerly known as Coral Ridge Ministries and Truth in Action Ministries, was founded in 1974 by the late D. James Kennedy. Kennedy was also the founder of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Evangelism Explosion International, the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, and […]
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Background The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) was founded in 1984 and describes itself as โa non-profit public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.โ CEI pursues what it calls a โfull-service approach to […]
Fraser Institute
The Fraser Institute Background The Fraser Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They describe themselves as a โindependent Canadian public policy research and educational organization with active research ties with similar independent organizations in more than 80 countries around the world.โ […]
Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute Background The Hudson Institute (HI) was founded in 1961 by strategist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the Rand Corporation. Founded at the height of the Cold War, the Institute started with a focus on defense, nuclear power, and strategy. Since 9/11, the institute has changed focus to the terrorism and has […]
Discovery Institute
Discovery Institute (D.I.) Background The Discovery Institute (D.I.) was founded in 1990 by Bruce Chapman, a former Reagan administration official, and by George Gilder as a branch of the Hudson Institute. The Institute was named after the H.M.S. Discovery, which explored Puget Sound in 1792. In its early days, the Institute was heavily funded by […]
Cooler Heads Coalition
Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) Background The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC), located online at GlobalWarming.org, describes itself as an โinformal and ad-hoc group focused on dispelling the myths of global warming.โ The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) was formed on May 6, 1997, under […]
Cascade Policy Institute
Cascade Policy Institute (CPI) Background The Cascade Policy Institute (CPI) was founded in 1991 as a โnonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research and educational organizationโ based in Oregon. Its mission to โdevelop and promote public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic opportunity.โ According to the […]
Beacon Hill Institute
Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) Background The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research (BHI) started as the research arm of the Department of Economics at Suffolk University in Boston originally founded in 1991 by the Republican politician Ray Shamie.1โBiography of Ray Shamie,โ NewsLink, Vol. 3, No. 4, Summer 1999. Published by the Beacon Hill Institute. Archived […]
Atlas Network
Atlas Network (Atlas Economic Research Foundation) Background Atlas Network is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that describes itself as working to support a growing network of more than 500 “free market” organizations in nearly 100 countries promoting free market ideas. Many of the member think tanks of Atlas Network have supported climate science denial and have campaigned against legislation to limit […]
