Earth Democracy and the Rights of Mother Earth
Tikkun Magazine, by Vandana Shiva, December 12, 2011 Earth Rights: A New Paradigm of Economic Nonviolence We need a new paradigm for living on the earth because the old one is clearly not working. An alternative is now a survival...
Rights of Mother Nature perspectives from leading advocates
In honor of Earth Day 2011, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center hosted a blog panel on Rights of Nature. The distinguished international panel of leading Rights of Nature advocates included Shannon Biggs, Cormac Cullinan, Vandana Shiva, Maude...
Dr. Vandana Shiva on Biopiracy and Rights of Nature
By Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC) World-renowned physicist, philosopher, author and environmental activist, Vandana Shiva discusses biopiracy, where seed giants survey the genome of plants developed over thousands of years by indigenous farmers, and claim intellectual property rights under patent...