Peoples Sustainability Manifesto
For Action Beyond RIO+20, June 2012 The fourteen Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties, evolved through a consultative process with hundred of civil society organizations, converged at the Rio+20 to launch a Manifesto on the final day of the summit. They have declared...
Alternatives to the Green Economy from Bolivian Civil Society
Excerpts from articled submitted to Global Transition 2012 by Guest Author. For complete article visit: Alternatives to the Green Economy from Bolivian Civil Society Rio+20 will be the most important global summit for decades as the world faces financial, energy,...
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...
Rights of Nature and Eradicating Ecocide – KWMR Radio
Listen to this great discussion about Eradicating Ecocide and Instituting the Rights of Nature with Louise Kulbicki, Ecocide Legal Coordinator who is working with Polly Higgins in the UK, and Linda Sheehan, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center working...
Be Magnificent – From Redwood Wisdom
I bask in the Energy created By all the trees in this Grove. Surrounded by their love And physical support, I am able to BE A magnificent tree. In your life, Create a network Of support For one another, So...
Mother Earth Should Not Be “Owned, Privatised and Exploited”
Aline Jenckel interviews, TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network For complete interview visit http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107733 UNITED NATIONS, May 9, 2012 (IPS) – For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long...
Bolivian Climate Change Platform proposes alternatives to Green Economy
As the UN Conference on the Environment and Development, Rio+20 approaches, the Bolivian Climate Change Platform on Rio+20 proposes the model of Living Well and Rights of Mother Earth as the foundation for viable alternatives to the “Green Economy”. “At...
Rights of Nature dialogue in Nepal with CELDF
Since 2009, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, head of the Global Alliance’s Legislative Assistance Working Group, has been in discussions with the Center for Economic and Social Development (CESOD) in Nepal, a civil society organization whose work has increasingly...
Mountain on a Train – a call for Rights of Nature
by Dylan McGarry While an indigenous Venda community in South Africa battles an Australian coal company to protect their sacred mountain, containing sacred forests and rivers from being sucked dry for coal mining in the area, a single train transports...
