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...
A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control
Today’s global Rights of Nature and Rights of Communities over Corporate “Personhood” movement started over a decade ago in Pennsylvania’s heartland. Thomas Linzey of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF.org) has been working in the forefront with these communities. Read...
Grafton, New Hampshire Adopts Community Bill of Rights
Bans Land Acquisition for Unsustainable Energy Systems Massive wind turbines installed by an Iberdrola project tower over ridges in Grafton County, New Hampshire and have had a devastating impact on the environment and this rural community. Iberdrola is Spain’s largest...
Grafton, New Hampshire Adopts Community Bill of Rights
Bans Land Acquisition for Unsustainable Energy Systems Massive wind turbines installed by an Iberdrola project tower over ridges in Grafton County, New Hampshire and have had a devastating impact on the environment and this rural community. Iberdrola is Spain’s largest...
CA Communities Rise Against Fracking
Who decides if fracking happens in a community where YOU live? With California facing new fracking proposals, communities around the state are rising up. Global Exchange helps communities to organize, write laws to protect their communities, and assert their rights...
CA Communities Rise Against Fracking
Who decides if fracking happens in a community where YOU live? With California facing new fracking proposals, communities around the state are rising up. Global Exchange helps communities to organize, write laws to protect their communities, and assert their rights...
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...
The law, Marx and Mother Earth
See you in court? Mother Earth has an ally in Stephen Marx on the march for her legal rights in Vermont. Read the full article The law, Marx and Mother Earth in the Burlington Free Press, by Joel Banner Baird,...
Democracy Denied in Small Town, USA
by: Mt. Shasta Community Rights Project, Molly Brown from ReadtheDirt.org Editor’s Note: Read the story of the inner workings of Mt. Shasta, California’s effort to pass a Community Water Rights and Self-Government Ordinance. Hear how the citizens of this small town were,...
