Earth Law Center Blog
How Earth Law Supports Animal Rights
The case for animal rights, the evolution of the legal movement, and how Earth Law embraces a worldview that values and protects all species.
Rights for Seneca Lake
Earth Law Center leaders discuss the social and environmental history of Seneca Lake, and how establishing rights for the lake can restore its ecosystems.
Earth Law: Reflecting the Interconnectedness of Nature
Human psychological well-being is intimately connected to the collective health of all life on Earth.
How Earth Law Supports Indigenous Views of Nature
Indigenous communities around the world are fighting to protect their rights and the rights of nature.
Rights of Nature Takes Hold in Crestone, Colorado
The Town of Crestone joins the international community of towns, cities, nations and peoples that recognize the inherent rights of nature.
How Earth Law Helps Green Business
How businesses can be profitable and sustainable through enduring commitments to environmental principles in practice.
Teyuna Foundation Launches
Learn about the Teyuna Foundation’s mission to spread spiritual teachings and practices focused on protecting and healing the Earth.
An Earth-Centered Solution: Pesticide-Free Zones in Europe
Earth Law establishes the legal rights of ecosystems to be free from pesticide pollution.
Earth Defenders Launch “One Vote for Nature” Campaign
The Earth Law Center’s “One Vote for Nature” Campaign seeks to give nature one seat in legislative bodies throughout the world, integrating nature into our democracies and acknowledging the importance of its voice.
The Rights of Nature under the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
International free trade groups strive to increase global prosperity, but can they do so without perpetuating environmental exploitation and degradation?
Earth Law Center Partners with Earth Thrive for Rights of Nature Campaign in Serbia
Serbia's biodiversity, ecosystems and human communities face a host of environmental threats. That's why Earth Law Center and Earth Thrive have launched a campaign to establish rights for nature in Serbia.
Is Earth Law a Solution to Light Pollution?
Light pollution impacts human and wildlife health around the world. Urban governments can enact legislation that curbs light pollution according to Earth Law principles and practices.
Earth Law: A New Voice for America’s Southern Borderlands
An Earth Law approach to protect ecosystems and human communities of the Southern Borderlands - a look at the environmental impacts of a wall built on the southern border of the US.
ELC Reflects on the Contributions of Rachel Carson
A discussion of environmental ethics and the legacy of Rachel Carson, author of the seminal book Silent Spring and a powerful force in the conservation movement.
Earth Jurisprudence and its Consideration of Animals
Janice Cox of World Animal Net (WAN) discusses the connections between the degradation of nature and animal exploitation and abuse in our society. She calls for a shift towards Earth Jurisprudence, prioritizing and protecting the natural world.
It’s Time for an Earth Law Textbook
First law textbook on legal movement to establish rights for nature from Earth Law Center. The textbook will be available for university courses and elsewhere. The goal is to train the next generation of rights of nature experts.
Rights of Nature: A Few Theoretical Considerations
The Rights of Nature movement... is still relatively young, and its proponents are still actively involved in debates about how to best articulate its conceptual framework.
Earth Law Center’s 2017 Was One for the Books
Medicine Bow National Forest, near ELC's new regional office in Boulder, CO
Indigenous Perspectives at the Forefront of Environmental Jurisprudence
Earth Law recognizes the worldviews of many indigenous cultures and applies it to legal systems.
Rights of Nature at the International Level
ELC partners with the UN Harmony with Nature to advance a paradigm shift to recognize rights of nature.