Thomas Linzey is a co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and serves as chief legal counsel. He has been involved in countless struggles against oil and gas extraction, factory farms, water privatization, mining, and other industrial projects. His law firm was instrumental in Ecuador including rights for nature in their constitution.

This interview took place at the annual Earth At Risk: The Justice & Sustainability Conference in November 2010. The conference was presented by Fertile Ground Environmental Institute. You can watch the entire 45-minute interview HERE.

The Earth at Risk annual conference in San Francisco brings together some of the greatest thinkers and activists in the fields of social and environmental justice. For more information, click HERE.