Earth Law Center Blog
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.
Earth Law for Angoon, Alaska
The Native Tnglit people of Southeastern Alaska depends on local ecosystems for their diets and livelihoods. They have created a coalition to protect their environment from damage by commercial activity.
Rights for the Anchicayá River in Colombia
ELC is working with International Rivers and Réseau International des Droits Humains (RIDH) on a case involving environmental damages from a dam on the Anchicayá River in Colombia.
Rights of Nature to Save the Endangered Sharks of the Galapagos
Threats facing sharks in the Galápagos Islands, and the Earth Law solutions that can help protect them.
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 Law Ocean Framework Launches!
Current methods for protecting Earth’s oceans fall short in many ways. Learn how the holistic, systems and rights-based approach outlined by the Earth Law Ocean Framework addresses the threats facing Earth’s oceans.
River Protection: Crucial in an Age of Dwindling Snowpack
Snowpack systems are changing with the global climate. Kristen Cowell discusses the impacts of dwindling snowpack on rivers and how an Earth Law approach can help protect them.
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.
ELC to Attend Puebla’s Living Rivers Forum and Festival
Earth Law Center is participating in the Ríos Vivos Foro y Festival (Living Rivers Forum and Festival) in Puebla, Mexico. Participants will consider new approaches to river restoration and celebrate local waterways like the Atoyac River.
An Earth Law Solution to Ocean Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution in Earth's oceans seriously threatens marine ecosystem health; current environmental laws have failed to address this global issue.
Rights for the River Ethiope, Nigeria
It is a special place of worship due to its origination at the base of a cottonwood tree; an environmental irony where human interest and appreciation endangers what it seeks to appreciate.
Co-Violations: Where Both Human and Ocean Rights Violations Occur
The Earth Law Framework for Marine Protected Areas serves as a tool for adopting a holistic and rights-based approach to ocean governance; protecting both nature and humans from co-violations of their rights at sea.