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’.
Mother Earth Cries Out & We Must Listen and Act Boldly
–Reflecting on Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment Blog by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International Co-Founder & Executive Director, June 22, 2015 WECAN International Pope Francis’s new encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, is a powerful tool for the climate...
Seeding a transformed future
by Patricia Siemen May 12, 2015 Last month I returned from my first visit to India. I was invited to lead a week’s workshop on “Earth Democracy: Defending the Rights of People and Mother Earth” with Dr. Vandana Shiva and...
Finally Being Heard: The Great Barrier Reef and the International Rights of Nature Tribunal
By Michelle Maloney, PhD, Australian Earth Laws Alliance In January 2014, the newly created International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature and Mother Earth (‘the Tribunal’) sat for the first time in Quito, Ecuador. The Tribunal, created by international civil...
WildLaw Published in Turkish
by Cormac Cullinan “The legal, political and economic systems of contemporary industrialized societies are not only failing to prevent the destruction and degradation of Nature, and with it the well-being of future generations, they encourage and legitimize that destruction. Cullinan...
Why I’m going to the People’s Climate March
by Patricia Siemen I’m showing up. As a baby-boomer from the U.S. As a person of faith. I am going to the People’s Climate March in New York on September 21. The security of our home, planet Earth, is threatened....
Advancing Nature Rights Worldwide Resolution from Wild10 Conference
Earlier this month we posted about the 10th World Wilderness Congress and Rights of Nature with videos of Rights of Nature Plenary sessions. International groups and indigenous leaders including a number of Global Alliance members participated in WILD10. The Congress...
10th World Wilderness Congress and Rights of Nature
WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), is the most recent in what has become the longest-running, international, public conservation project. It is a two-three year process of collaboration between many groups, governments, experts in all fields, community representatives, businesses,...
New Zealand Earth Law Conference on Sustainability Call for Papers
Earth Law Conference on Sustainability New Zealand Centre for Public Law VUW Law School, Wellington, 14-16 February 2014 Three organisations are coming together for the 3-day weekend of February 14-16: The Earth Law Alliance Aotearoa NZ and the German Australian...
Australian Earth Laws Alliance Updates
Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA) announces that as of 22nd July they have changed to the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA). AELA’s new logo was created by designer Skeet Booth. The human fingerprint embedded in the leaf is a lovely...
