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,...
Rights of Nature on Terra Verde KPFA Radio
Terra Verde, for January 11, 2013 – 1:00pm How would environmental protection, both in California and around the world, change if nature were given legal rights to exist and thrive? Terra Verde explores the Rights of Nature movement with Shannon...
Dr. Vandana Shiva invites you to join her in India with Global Exchange
Excerpts from Shannon Biggs at Global Exchange. Read the complete post at Spend a week with Vandana Shiva: Rights of Seeds, Rights of Nature “I think it would be a really good idea at this moment in time, to do...
Rights of Nature and the Commons
Remix the Commons is a collaborative and evolutive multimedia project. It aims to document and illustrate the key ideas and practices of the commons movement, including through the creative process of the project itself. The following videos with Shannon Biggs,...
Global Exchange Brings Rights of Nature to the 2012 Earth Summit (Rio+20)
by Shannon Biggs In partnership with the Global Alliance, Shannon Biggs and Global Exchange will be a strong voice advocating Rights of Nature at 2012 Earth Summit Rio+20. The following includes excerpts from Shannon’s blog of 7th June 2012. Read...
WECC presents Rights of Nature
Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus Resilient Communities Program: Rights of Nature April 13 – 14, 2012 Join a dynamic seminar to learn about the history of Rights of Nature including the groundbreaking 2008 event when Ecuador became the first country...
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...
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...
UNFCCC COP17 Rights of Nature Highlights in Durban
UN COP17 Climate Change Conference was held in Durban, South Africa Monday, November 28 – December 9, 2011. While key negotiators for member states ended with an agreement that leaves the planet vulnerable to 3 to 5 degree Celsius temperature...
Rights of Nature Press Conference in COP17, Durban
Why do we bring the issue of Rights of Nature to a Climate Change negotiation? This was the question Pablo Solon posed as he spoke at the UN COP 17 Climate Change Press Conference on December 6, 2011 in Durban,...
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