Wednesday, April 28th, at 9 a.m. PST/noon EST.

Event Press Release:

Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Melissa Troutman will be speaking at the Institute for Ecological Civilization’s “The Rights of Nature in a Wellbeing Society” online panel this Wednesday, April 28th, at 9 a.m. PST/noon EST. Join her and other experts as they discuss how we define the “rights” of nature and what it looks like to uphold these rights in practice.

Register here.

Information about the event from the Institute for Ecological Civilization:

When we think about what is necessary to create and sustain societies grounded in wellbeing, respect for the rights of everything in our natural world is crucial. But how do we define the “rights” of nature? And what does it look like to uphold these rights in practice, especially in a world that has placed capitalistic values largely at the center of its decision-making and law-making processes? Join the Institute for Ecological Civilization and YES! Magazine for a discussion with leaders who have been redefining what it means to establish and protect the rights of nature for the sake of all living things on our planet.

This panel is the latest installment of the EcoCiv Dialogues on Global Systems Change series, and is brought to you through collaboration of the Institute for Ecological Civilization and YES! Magazine.

Panelists:

  • Melissa Troutman – Co-director, Invisible Hand
  • Mona Polacca – Senior Fellow for the Original Caretakers Program, Center for Earth Ethics & Chair and Chair, International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
  • Hermann E. Ott – Founder and Managing Director, Germany Office for ClientEarth
  • Joe Bowersox III – Dempsey Endowed Chair of Environmental Politics and Law in the Department of Environmental Science, Willamette University

Moderator: Wm. Andrew Schwartz – Vice President, EcoCiv