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’...
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...
