CELDF’s Fast Fact Friday-Rights of Nature
Episode 1 of CELDF’s Fast Fact Friday Series is about Rights of Nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7Qhv0O2FE&feature=emb_logo
‘It Is Like Satire’: Prince Charles’ Terra Carta Is a Manifesto for the Status Quo
The ecological crisis demands we protect the Rights of Nature from being watered down. Published by Common Dreams on Jan 19, 2021 by Ben Price. On January 11, 2021, the Prince of Wales and maybe next king of England introduced a Terra Carta, "a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector." [...]
European Rights of Nature Conference-Third Installment
This episode of the conference "Towards a European recognition of the rights of Nature," focuses on human rights and the rights of nature. This event was recorded on January 12, 2021. Watch the recorded event on Facebook here: https://fb.watch/30u87sW7J_/
Interview with Grant Wilson, Rights of Nature Attorney
Finance for Biodiversity Initiative's Mark Halle interviewed Grant Wilson, Executive Director & Directing Attorney of the Earth Law Center about moves to secure the legal personhood of nature. Mark Halle: We at the Finance for Biodiversity Initiative are taking a keen interest in the developing new field of law around the rights of nature. Following [...]
Anneke Campbell speaks about Rights of Nature
Anneke Campbell who co-wrote the book We the People..with Thomas Linzey speaks with "The New Architects" in 2017. The book is only half-price through the end of the year. “One of the things that was so exciting to me about rights of nature when I first heard it was I think it just does [...]
Directors Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman appear on Last Born In The Wilderness Podcast
Last Born In The Wilderness podcast interviewed Public Herald co-founders Melissa Troutman and Joshua Pribanic this week to talk about their new film INVISIBLE HAND and how Rights of Nature is fighting the capitalist system. Listen to the episode here. "I could just tell how much attention to detail and love was put into producing this film," says podcast [...]
Rights of Nature: The New Paradigm
Cameron La Follette, Executive director of Oregon Coast Alliance, writes about the Rights of Nature movement. Published on March 6, 2019 by the American Association of Geographers. Rights of Nature is a short-hand term for a form of ecological governance that both provides for and prioritizes Nature’s right to flourish. It also provides for various [...]
‘The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Terrified’
Gas Company Sues to Destroy Small Town's Rights of Nature Law. "PGE throwing another lawsuit at us to try to bring us to heel, when our community has overwhelmingly said 'hell no' multiple times." Published by Common Dreams, December 15, 2020, by Jessica Corbett, staff writer. In a clear signal of how the fossil [...]
Ecuador National Assembly – Biodiversity Commission Includes CDER Legislative Proposals on Rights of Nature
CDER proposes legislative changes to implement the Rights of Nature. Quito, Ecuador: The Biodiversity Commission of Ecuador’s National Assembly – the national legislature of Ecuador – has issued its report to the National Assembly on suggested changes to the main environmental law in Ecuador. The report includes a number of proposals submitted by the Center [...]
International Lawyers Draft Plan to Criminalise Ecosystem Destruction
Plan to draw up legal definition of ‘ecocide’ attracts support from European countries and small island nations. November 30, 2020 in The Guardian. International lawyers are drafting plans for a legally enforceable crime of ecocide – criminalising destruction of the world’s ecosystems – that is already attracting support from European countries and island nations at [...]