This article appeared in Our Daily Planet in February of 2020. Traditionally, environmental laws have been written to manage how we use nature. However, the rapid degradation of nature driven by human activity is forcing indigenous leaders and activists to push for nature having rights that are enshrined in law. We saw an example of this last year [...]
If we want to forestall the worst of climate change, we need innovation not just in tech but in law, the rule sets that guide our behavior. This article by Clive Thompson was published in Wired magazine on December 17, 2019. In the summer of 2014, Markie Miller discovered she'd been drinking toxic coffee. Miller [...]
This media release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on November 25, 2019. AUSTRALIA: The first Rights of Nature legislation has been introduced in Australia, into the Western Australia Parliament. The International Center for the Rights of Nature assisted Member of Parliament Diane Evers and the Australian Earth Laws Alliance in drafting the bill. Western Australia [...]
This article was recently posted at the Bioneer's website. "As the original caretakers of the land, Indigenous Peoples have been on the frontlines of environmental justice movements, not only to protect their own communities, but also to preserve humanity’s harmony with the Earth. Bioneers is dedicated to uplifting the work, wisdom and voices of Indigenous [...]
This article by Florangel Rosario Braid was published in Manila Bulletin on November 16, 2019. Environmentalism’s next frontier is giving nature legal rights, a paradigm shift in especially in our country where our laws are centered on the human being, not on the environment. However, there is a growing movement around the world today which [...]
This eighteen minute talk by Kat Houghton was post on the TEDx Talk's website on November 7th, 2019. Peak into the dominant cultural consciousness that holds humans separate and above the rest of the natural world. Explore worldviews from diverse cultures and western science that help us question our beliefs about our place in [...]
This article by Alex Brown was published on the Pew Charitable Trust website on October 30, 2019. When members of the White Earth band of Ojibwe in Minnesota take out their canoes to harvest wild rice, they’re gathering a source of nourishment and following a tradition that has connected them to the land for generations. [...]
We're still treating a living, life-sustaining, crucial being as property: the ecosystem. And in the process, we’re choking our own habitat—that is to say, ourselves—to death. This article by Robert C. Koehler was published on Common Dreams on October 10th, 2019. "When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, women, indigenous peoples, and slaves were treated as [...]
A Yurok Tribe resolution allows cases to be brought on behalf of the Klamath River as a person in tribal court This article by Anna V. Smith was published in Mother Jones magazine on September 29, 2019. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This summer, [...]
This article by Matthew Green was published in Reuters on September 10, 2019. FROME, England (Reuters) - Nobody knows exactly how ancient masons, wielding chisels made from deer antlers, managed to build Stonehenge, the standing circle that has enchanted southern England for thousands of years. But one theory about the epic undertaking reserves a special [...]
