The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
Air Date: Week of November 17, 2017 Environmental lawyers are claiming in court that land, rivers, and other natural features should own themselves rather than being considered property, much like the law already treats corporations as ‘persons.’ The case for...
Pat Siemen on Pope Francis and Rights of Nature
Sister Patricia Siemen, Director of Barry Law School’s Center for Earth Jurisprudence, spoke to News 13 in Orlando, Florida about Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’.
Law, Environment, and Religion with Linda Sheehan
A Communion Of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion, with Linda Sheehan Yale University hosted the second installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” which features an interview with Linda Sheehan, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center....
Notes for the debate The Rights of Mother Earth
By Pablo Solon from Systemic Alternatives What are the rights of Mother Earth? A new vision of our relationship with nature, a new legal framework, a set of ethical principles, a strategy with which to question the superpowers of transnational...
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
The Global Peace Initiative of Women announces the recent release of Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, a collection of essays edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and presented as a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. “Our present ecological...
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...
Cormac Cullinan hosted by Earth Charter International
Earth Charter International hosted international environmental law and global governance experts Cormac Cullinan and Peter Brown for a webinar on Environmental Law and Global Governance. Cullinan and Brown offered a critical analysis of the current global governance system for sustainability and...
Stepping stones – Tom Brenan reviews Exploring Wild Law
From Ecologist, by Tom Brenan Tom Brenan discovers a wide range of voices from Earth law proponents around the world…… “In his preface to this collection of short articles, the editor Peter Burdon, says that the book is intended to...
Earth guidebook: Cullinan’s ‘Wild Law’
In response to the growing Rights of Nature movement in Vermont, including the proposed Rights of Nature amendment to the Vermont State Constitution, the Burlington Free Press, Burlington, VT has published three articles: Earth guidebook: Cullinan’s ‘Wild Law’ by Cormac...
Earth Law’s long reach
Local actions can – and should – steer environmental jurisprudence at the global level, says Earth Law Center director Linda Sheehan Read the full interview at Earth Law’s long reach, Burlington Free Press, by Joel Banner Baird, Burlington, Vermont. To...
