“Laudato si” – A 21st Century Manifesto for Earth Democracy
By Vandana Shiva – L’Huffington Post Italia, 19 June 2015 reposted at Seed Freedom in English on June 20, 2015 at Seed Freedom Most reports of Pope Francis’s Encyclical in the press before the formal launch yesterday reduced this path...
Seeding a transformed future
by Patricia Siemen May 12, 2015 Last month I returned from my first visit to India. I was invited to lead a week’s workshop on “Earth Democracy: Defending the Rights of People and Mother Earth” with Dr. Vandana Shiva and...
Vandana Shiva on “Corporate Fiction”
“To claim that by adding one gene a corporation creates the seed and all future generations of that seed is an ontological flaw, a scientific outrage and an ethical violation” Vandana Shiva wrote the following article in the context of...
Vandana Shiva on “Corporate Fiction”
“To claim that by adding one gene a corporation creates the seed and all future generations of that seed is an ontological flaw, a scientific outrage and an ethical violation” Vandana Shiva wrote the following article in the context of...
Yale Center offers Rights of Nature research projects
The Center for the Rights of Nature at Yale is opening this September with a research and advocacy program through the Yale Environmental Protection Clinic – a clinic that straddles the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental...
I’m a Farm Wife
I’m a Farm Wife… and I hate GMOs. Project Conventional Farmer, What’s New May 31, 2014 Comments: 163 I’m a Farm Wife. And I Hate GMOs. Excerpts of a farm wife of a grain farmer debuncts the public myths about GMO’s...
Climate change: a challenge that goes beyond politics
Dear Friends I want to send you a note to share on climate change with some reflections that emerge from the Bolivian experience. Hope you will spread this. In solidarity Elizabeth Climate change: a challenge that goes beyond politics Elizabeth...
United Natures – A United Nations of All Species
Just released! United Natures – a United Nations of all species movie An indepth documentary feature film on the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, earth jurisprudence, philosophy, permaculture, spirituality and a neo-indigenous future for humanity released on June...
The Law of the Seed
In country after country local, open source seeds are being made illegal to establish a Monsanto monopoly on Seed and force GMOs and patents everywhere. This is a vital aspect of Earth Rights. The Law of The Seed aims to...
Pennsylvania farmer protects Rights of Nature through Conservation Easement
In November 2012, Stephen Cleghorn, PhD, a Pennsylvania organic farmer, became the first landowner in the United States to use a conservation easement to recognize the rights of water, forest, and wild ecosystems. The easement bans activities, like shale gas...
