Media Release - Australian Earth Laws Alliance 28 April 2021 The Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) has become the first Local Council – and in fact the first Government entity – in Australia, to embed ‘Rights of Nature’ as a keystone concept into its operational practices, planning process and advocacy program. On 27 April 2021, [...]
A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local ‘rights of nature’ measure passed in November in effort to protect wetlands. Published in The Guardian on May 1, 2021 by Isabella Kaminski A network of streams, lakes and marshes in Florida is suing a developer and the state to try to stop a housing development [...]
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 [...]
Earth Democracy: Connecting Rights of Mother Earth to Human Rights and Well-being of all. April 22, 2021 An introduction to recognizing the rights of Mother Earth through Earth Democracy by the organization Navdanya. See the full slideshow and website HERE.
If you happen to see this post today (April 22, 2021), this conference is happening live: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=830152507582335&ref=watch_permalink All the previous conferences are available HERE.
Victory: Rights of Nature in the state of Oaxaca. CRUS Board Secretary Forest Jahnke was in Oaxaca recently and reported back about the Rights of Nature victory there: After the last few months tracking and investigating the issue on any front possible while down in Oaxaca, Mexico, I was ecstatic to hear that Oaxaca recently [...]
The main culprit of the #ecocide of the #BalkanRivers are the state government & corresponding ministries issuing licenses and approving faulty environmental impact assessments, guaranteeing huge subsidies for dam owners, paid for by the citizens through their electricity bills. -@rontribunal International Rights of Nature Tribunal Tweet April 19, 2021 Local activists have been manifesting their [...]
This webinar, hosted by the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), delves into the rights of nature in tribal law and governance. Press Release About this Event: Tuesday, April 27 – 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 7pm (London), 8pm CEST Join CDER for a fantastic webinar with Frank Bibeau, Attorney for the White Earth Band [...]
A Study on Rights of Nature in the European Context Published March 2021. Abstract: This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, explores the concept of “Rights of Nature” (RoN) and its different aspects in legal philosophy and international agreements, as [...]
Aired April 4, 2021 at 12:49 PM. Will Falk is a biophilic writer and lawyer. The natural world speaks and Will’s work is how he listens. He believes the intensifying destruction of the natural world is the most pressing issue confronting us today. His first book is "How Dams Fall: Stories the Colorado River Told [...]
