Global Alliance promoting Natural Law
Earth Island Journal’s Jason Mark, explores the emergence of the Rights of Nature movement and its growing impact in this month’s Journal article: Natural Law – From Rural Pennsylvania to South America, a Global Alliance is Promoting the Idea that...
Latin American and Caribbean recommend Rights of Nature dialogue
The 18th Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment (FME18) of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was held in Quito, Ecuador, 2-3 February 2012. 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations sign Quito Declaration which proposes “in the...
Humanity’s choice
“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction” A New Earth: Awakening...
Earth Junkies – Childrens Charter for Rights of Mother Earth
Allow your heart to burst open with the stories of children share their adventures learning to decipher the world around us. Earth Junkies is developing the first global Children’s Charter for the Rights of Mother Earth. The Earth Junkies Project...
Climate Train takes Peoples Charter thru South Africa
As the Climate Train toured 17 cities in South Africa from Capetown to the UN FCC Climate Change Conference in Durban, children and adults gathered to respond to and endorse the African Peoples Charter. At the closing ceremony on the...
Progressive Law Network Conference – Melbourne, AU 16 March 2012
The Progressive Law Network is hosting a 1 day conference at Monash University, Melbourne, on Friday 16th March. Dr Peter Burdon of the University of Adelaide and Australian Wild Law Alliance Board of Management will be one of several speakers focusing...
Progressive Law Network Conference – Melbourne, AU 16 March 2012
The Progressive Law Network is hosting a 1 day conference at Monash University, Melbourne, on Friday 16th March. Dr Peter Burdon of the University of Adelaide and Australian Wild Law Alliance Board of Management will be one of several speakers focusing...
Rio+20: The Essential Information
From Vitae Civilis This paper aims to encourage and support the participation of civil society at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20 and the many processes around it. We seek to provide a synthetic and objective view...
Mother Nature Gets Her Day in Court
Discovery News – Friday January 27 Tim Will of Discovery News speaks with Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Linda Sheehan ,Earth Law Center, about Rights of Nature laws in the US, Ecuador and Bolivia. Ecuador and...
Community Rights in the focus
Shannon Biggs (Global Exchange) and Thomas Linzey (CELDF) were invited on NPR’s ‘Your Call’ with Rose Aguilar to discuss community and nature’s rights and how communities across the US are undertaking rights-based organizing to get what they want in the...
