Earth Law Updates – May 11, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here’s the latest Earth law update: The fifteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is currently taking place in New York, from 9th to 20th In its ‘Proud to be Indigenous’...
Earth law update – April 27, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here is the latest update on Earth law developments: The United Nations (UN) Harmony with Nature Programme has launched its Knowledge Network, an online platform which will host a series of inter-disciplinary dialogues between practitioners,...
COP Out: The hollow promise of the Paris climate deal
Hal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2015 COP21 has had a mixed reception and the agreement reached has been criticised more for what it doesn’t say as much as for what it does. The Gaia Foundation’s latest blog COP out:...
COP21: call for international treaty on rights of nature and communities
By Hal Rhoades, 8th December 2015, The Ecologist A new initiative launched alongside COP21 in Paris this week is aiming to “Adopt and implement an international treaty to prevent and enforce against corporate human rights violations” and “Incorporate rights of...
YES to LIFE – NO to MINING
This November a new global movement will be born as communities across the world unite in their resistance to the extractive industries and together say “Yes to Life, No to Mining”. This is about standing together and standing up for...
Short Circuit Report – the True Cost of Our Electronic Gadgets
Gaia Foundation, ABN, and allies have just launched Short Circuit Report: The Lifecycle of our Electronic Gadgets and the True Cost to Earth A new report launched by The Gaia Foundation, African Biodiversity Network (ABN), and allies, exposes the social...
Sacred Voices
GaiaFoundationVideo Published on Sep 7, 2012 Sacred Voices is a short film which shares the messages of eight traditional Sacred Natural Site Custodians from Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa and Uganda. They share an ancient birthright and duty to protect the Sacred...
Short Circuit – Lifecycle of Electronic Gadgets and the True Cost to Earth
The Gaia Foundation in conjunction with the APPCCG Report Launch: Short Circuit – The Lifecycle of Our Electronic Gadgets and the True Cost to Earth Wednesday, 24th April 2013, 3:00 – 4:30pm, Committee Room 11, House of Commons, London SW1A...
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...
