On Monday, the City of Las Vegas NM adopted a rights based ordinance establishing a local Bill of Rights and banning fracking and related activities. The City Council vote was 3-1, with the city...
Don Hamilton
April 4, 2012
The international peasant group, La Via Campesina, ends their global Call to Action for the upcoming June 16-18 Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) with ‘GLOBALIZE...
La Via Campesina
March 21, 2012
Photo credit: Brett Weston, Corbis.Cathy Miorelli doesn’t think of herself as an environmentalist. When Miorelli decided to run for the city council of Tamaqua Borough – a small town in central...
Jason Mark
March 6, 2012
With a groundswell of enthusiasm behind them, members of the group called Local Food Freedom-Nevada County (LFF-NC) has amped up its efforts to reach out to the community and shed a light on threats...
Laura Brown
February 16, 2012
Which president told Congress: “I recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contributing to the campaign expenses of any party…let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit...
By Shannon Biggs, photo credit: Elliott Justin
January 25, 2012
Pablo Solon, speaking on “Rights of Nature and Climate Politics” at a Harold Wolpe Lecture at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society in conjunction with COP17 on Friday December 2nd, 2011 in Durban South...
Pablo Solon
January 25, 2012
January 1, 2012
Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S.
Steven Rosenfeld
January 18, 2012
If the Supreme Court had never granted “personhood” rights to corporations, would they still be trammeling the rights of citizens and riding roughshod over communities and nature? Would we have...
Shannon Biggs
January 17, 2012
From Global Exchange, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Global Justice Ecology Project
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December 6, 2011
RIGHTS OF NATURE: A Legal Framework to Hold Industry Accountable to...
From Global Exchange, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Global Justice Ecology Project
December 13, 2011
Allen Kanner’s article “Why Extinction Matters at Least as Much as Climate Change” comes as world leaders gather in Durban, South Africa, for the round of UN climate talks known as the COP 17.
Shannon Biggs
December 13, 2011
