October 1 & 2, 2020 This two-day Global Forum will feature experts from around the world – including Ecuador, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United States, and from tribal nations – discussing the interplay between the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment. One-hour panel sessions will focus on the [...]
Link TV recently announced the premiere of GLOBAL MOSAIC, a new edition of the Peabody Award® -winning original series MOSAIC. A team of independent filmmakers explore global challenges and solutions to gender equality, water safety, and migration. Thomas Linzey, CDER Senior Legal Counsel, is featured in the upcoming episode, “The Right to Safe Water.” The [...]
Thomas Linzey, CDER’s senior legal counsel, is hitting the road (virtually) for CDER’s Fall 2020 College Speaking Tour. Linzey will present “Who Speaks for the Trees? The Movement for the Rights of Nature” at college and universities in both presentations and speeches, on virtual platforms, between September 15 - December 15. Linzey will focus on [...]
Thu. Sept. 17 @ 9pm Eastern/Fri. Sept. 18 @ 9am Manila (next day) · Join the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights for our monthly Rights of Nature webinar. The webinar will focus on the Philippines. Speaker: National Coordinator Yolanda Esguerra and Attorney Mario Maderazo of the Partnership Mission for People's Initiatives (PMPI) will present. PMPI is a coalition [...]
Rights of Nature Law, Policy and Education The law has seen the beginning of an evolution toward recognition of the inherent rights of Nature to exist, thrive and evolve. This evolving legal approach acknowledges that the traditional environmental regulatory systems generally described herein regard nature as property to be used for human benefit, rather than [...]
Resurrecting a Constitutional Right of Local, Community Self-Government in the Name of Environmental Sustainability By By Thomas Linzey & Daniel E. Brannen Jr. Published by Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy This article began as a series of legal briefs filed in various federal courts in defense of several municipal communities who had asserted [...]
Evan Folds speaks with the "Port City Daily" in Wilmington North Carolina about new ways to think about local environmental problems. Folds is the supervisor of the New Hanover Soil and Water District. https://portcitydaily.com/audio/2020/08/01/podcast-rights-of-nature-corporate-pollution-and-taking-back-local-power-free/?fbclid=IwAR1NiRd6sARA3zpS48j4fPLiZbYmpzCKDj-t19i14k9SAdDwiNNRA7qDtUA
By Mari Margil This article appeared in Minding Nature, Vol. 13. No. 2 (Spring 2020), a publication of the Center for Humans and Nature. Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks [...]
Podcast Pod of Gold: People have a right to clean water. Rivers should too. Ep. 22, "Rivers with Rights" | Joseph Bonasia and Gary Robbins Rights of Nature Florida is getting more attention with this podcast featuring Lee County Rights of Nature Board of Directors Joseph Bonasia and Gary Robbins. Learn how you can be [...]
The headline is deceptive. The law actually prevents local water protection even if the state fails to act. Published by WUFT on June 30, 2020 By Marlowe Starling MIAMI – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Tuesday a proposal expected to improve water quality across the state. The Republican governor called the measure “one of [...]
