Law of the Land Published by "Huck Magazine" Friday 25th September, 2020 Text by Poppy Koronka Illustration © Zach Sebastian Pollution levels are rising once again after reaching a record low in lockdown. Could rights of nature legislation prevent impending catastrophe? In April, with half of humanity in lockdown, pollution dropped to unprecedented levels. Beijing, [...]
Here’s what she proposes. Published in "The Hill" By Anagha Srikanth | Sept. 15, 2020 Amid a global pandemic and protests against police brutality, Erin Brockovich is trying to get America to pay attention to yet another issue: water. "We are in a water crisis beyond anything you can imagine. Pollution and toxins are everywhere, [...]
CELDF shares an eight-part video series highlighting their grassroots work with partner communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The series was completed in association with the Myrin Institute and with the support of the JustPax Fund. Episode Seven: Exercising Our Rights (Lane County, Oregon) Community Rights Lane County and founding members Michelle Holman [...]
CELDF shares an eight-part video series highlighting their grassroots work with partner communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The series was completed in association with the Myrin Institute and with the support of the JustPax Fund. Episode Five: Liberate the Community (Lincoln County, Oregon) Meet the avant-garde of Community Rights work in Lincoln [...]
Webinar on Rights of Nature Monday, September 21, 2020 at 12 PM PDT/3PM EST Hosted by Lee County Rights of Nature Online Event https://landing.pachamama.org/global-call Lee County Rights of Nature, Inc. would like to extend an invitation to a live International webinar entitled -"Rights Of Nature: Expressing Interconnectedness In Law" : Join the Conversation on September [...]
CELDF shares an eight-part video series highlighting their grassroots work with partner communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The series was completed in association with the Myrin Institute and with the support of the JustPax Fund. Episode Four: What Can We Do Differently? (Barnstead, New Hampshire) In 2001, residents of Barnstead, New Hampshire, [...]
CELDF shares an eight-part video series highlighting their grassroots work with partner communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The series was completed in association with the Myrin Institute and with the support of the JustPax Fund. Episode Three: The Grassroots Level (Plymouth, New Hampshire) For the better part of a decade, Plymouth residents [...]
CELDF shares an eight-part video series highlighting their grassroots work with partner communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The series was completed in association with the Myrin Institute and with the support of the JustPax Fund. Episode Two: Rights of Nature (Toledo, Ohio) The Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) made history when [...]
CELDF's second module (A Lake’s Voice in the Rebellion: Violating the Rights of Lake Erie) ran Sept 9. They've posted a link to view the first module, A Community's Voice in the Rebellion, and may post the second one soon. Module two: A Lake’s voice in the rebellion Wednesday, Sept. 9 For decades Lake Erie [...]
Four groups argue for incorporating the Rights of Nature into the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Their conclusions: Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide and this decline is projected to continue or worsen under business-as-usual scenarios. Legal systems are part of the governing systems used to implement National [...]
