2012 in Review: Progress for Nature’s Rights
Congratulations to Linda Sheehan and the Earth Law Center for the many ways you are in action advancing Rights of Nature and earth jurisprudence your first year! From Earth Law Center By Linda Sheehan As 2012 draws to a close,...
CELDF releases 2012 end-of-year Susquehanna!
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) highlights events and progress for year ending 2012 in their recent edition of Susquehanna! Read about November’s election results with three of our communities passing charter amendments establishing Community Bills of Rights while banning...
Earth Jurisprudence/Law principles in an international court for the environment
Gaia Foundation would like to share an exciting opportunity to recognize and embed Earth Jurisprudence/Law principles in an international court for the environment. Background There is currently a movement to establish an International Court for the Environment (ICE) which will...
Earth First? Bolivia’s Mother Earth Law Meets the Neo-Extractivist Economy
Emily Achtenberg Rebel Currents November 16, 2012 While the U. S. courts have granted civil rights to corporations, Bolivia has enacted a new law enshrining the legal rights of nature. The “Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living...
Whanganui River given rights as a legal identity
” Ko au te awa, Ko te awa ko au ~ I am the river and the river is me” expresses the special, spiritual relationship the iwi peoples (Maori) hold with the Whanganui river. In a landmark preliminary agreement between...
America’s Deficit Attention Disorder by David Korten
Read the full article in YES! Magazine by David Korten Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us. … So long as money frames the debate, money is...
America’s Deficit Attention Disorder by David Korten
Read the full article in YES! Magazine by David Korten Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us. … So long as money frames the debate, money is...
Animal Rights and the Rights of Nature
– Symposium 6 October 2012, Australia – Gold Coast The Southern Cross University (SCU) is hosting a 1 day Symposium on 6th October 2012, at SCU’s Gold Coast campus. For more information contact Dr Alessandro Pelizzon: alessandro.pelizzon@scu.edu.au and click here...
Rio+20 Ma La Terra Pensa?
Davide Sapienza su “Sienza Verde” Per l’articolo “Sienza Verde” Il mensile online diretto da Sonia Toni, Scienza Verde, sul numero di giugno pubblicato oggi, ha chiesto a Davide Sapienza di esprimere un parere sull’imminente vertice in Brasile, Rio+20, dal punto...
Earth Democracy and the Rights of Mother Earth
Tikkun Magazine, by Vandana Shiva, December 12, 2011 Earth Rights: A New Paradigm of Economic Nonviolence We need a new paradigm for living on the earth because the old one is clearly not working. An alternative is now a survival...
