Rights of Mother Earth CUNY live blog panel
In honor of Earth Day 2011, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center hosted a blog panel on Rights of Nature. The distinguished international panel of leading Rights of Nature advocates included Shannon Biggs, Cormac Cullinan, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Pablo Solon, and David Harvey. Earth...
Community Bills of Rights on November Ballot
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund reports that the City Councils of both Pittsburgh, PA and Spokane, WA have voted this week to move forward with Community Bill of Rights ordinances on the November ballot. In a CELDF News brief, Mari...
Pacha’s Pajamas – A children’s story about Rights of Nature
“Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature”, part of an unprecedented edutainment platform that connects ecology and entertainment, debuted its eBook today. The innovative children’s story, considered a modern-day “Jungle Book”, details a city girl’s dream in which animals and...
Governing people for Earth
Governing People for Earth – The Challenge of the 21st Century (address by Cormac Cullinan to the United Nations General Assembly Interactive Dialogue on living in harmony with Nature, Wednesday 20 April 2011) To view a Webcast of the Session...
Harmony With Nature – UN videos
Interactive Panel Debate 1: Ways to promoting a holistic approach to sustainable development in harmony with nature On April 20, 2011 the UN General Assembly hosted an Interactive Panel Debate on sustainable development in harmony with nature including the Universal Declaration for...
Stories from Around the World
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