“Thomas Berry: Cultural Historian and Geologian”
Kosmos Journal | Great Thinkers and Seekers Series
Written and narrated by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Produced by Kosmos, Winter 2019
“Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River’s Legacy Forests”
Earth Law Center, 2024.
“Rights of Nature – From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism”
With Karenna Gore, Thomas Linzey, and Steven “Owl” Smith.
Riverkeepers and Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, March 12, 2024.
“Earth Jurisprudence Explained”
The Gaia Foundation, November 9, 2022
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement
Feature documentary. 2020.
Links:
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
Rights of Manoomin (Wild Rice): White Earth Law and Enforcement Case
Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights
Documentary:
Invisible Hand (2020)
Rights of Nature documentary by Mark Ruffalo, Joshua Boaz Pribanic and Melissa A. Troutman.
Podcast:
“Rights of Nature and Earth Jurisprudence”
Podcast with Dr. Michelle Maloney. The Earth Charter. June 19, 2023.
Books:
Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction
By Mihnea Tanasescu. Transcript Verlag, 2022.
Rights of Nature: A Re-examination
Edited by Daniel P. Corrigan and Markku Oksanen. Routledge, 2021.
The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future
By Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela Martin. MIT Press, 2021.
The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
By David. R. Boyd. ECW Press, 2017.
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction
By Cameron La Follette and Chris Maser. Routledge, 2017.
Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment
By Christopher D. Stone. 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 2010.
The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics
By Roderick Frazier Nash. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
News Articles:
“Landmark Declaration of Rights Safeguards Biobío River in Chile”
By Julia Conley. Common Dreams. September 25, 2024.
“Icelandic Glacier Runs for President, Sparking Rights of Nature Movement”
By Jenna Travers. Columbia Climate School. July 25, 2024.
“As Maori heal through nature, is ‘legal personhood’ a tool or a distraction?”
By Monica Evans. Mongabay. July 8, 2024.
“A River’s Rights: Indigenous Kukama Women Lead the Way with Landmark Legal Victory”
By Juana Vera Delgado. Common Dreams. June 17, 2024.
“A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial”
By Hannah Chanatry. Inside Climate News. June 15, 2024.
“Pacific Indigenous leaders have a new plan to protect whales. Treat them as people”
By Jared Formanek, CNN. KeyT. June 14, 2024.
“Re-envisioning Riverscapes and Urban Riverfronts in India: Toward Ecological and Social Harmony”
By Namrata Kabra & Sanya Saroha. Earth Law Center. April 25, 2024.
“Indigenous principles inspire Rights of Nature movement to combat environmental threats”
By Will Atwater. North Carolina Health News. April 19, 2024.
“In Move to Protect Whales, Polynesian Indigenous Groups Give Them ‘Personhood’”
By Remy Tumin. New York Times. March 29, 2024.
“After Years of Indigenous-Led Campaigning, Court Grants Rights to Peru’s Marañón River”
By Julia Conley. Common Dreams. March 19, 2024.
“European parliament votes for watered-down law to restore nature”
By Ajit Niranjan. The Guardian. February 27, 2024.
“New guidebook supports U.S. tribal nations in adopting rights-of-nature laws”
By Liz Kimbrough. Mongabay. February 8, 2024.
“Meet Te Urewera, the New Zealand Rainforest That Has Legal Personhood”
By Natalie Middleton. Orion Magazine.
“Rights of nature”
By Betsey Crawford. The Soul of the Earth. January 28, 2024.
“When rivers go to court”
By Betsey Crawford. The Soul of the Earth. January 28, 2024.
“Guide to Rights of Nature in Indian Country”
Bioneers. 2023.
“Indigenous leader inspires an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river”
By Andre Penner, Teresa de Miguel, and Fabiano Maisonnave. Seattle Times. August 7, 2023.
“How a tribal rights lawyer is winning back the rights of nature”
By Aric Sleeper. Nation of Change. May 1, 2023.
Earth Law Center Newsletter
March 31, 2023
“River Ouse may become first in England to gain legal rights”
By Isabella Kaminski. The Guardian. March 1, 2023.
“What would happen if the environment was recognised as a legal person?”
By Lachlan Gilbert. UNSW Sydney Newsroom. February 17, 2023.
Newsletter of the The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
February 1, 2023.
“Scientists Call For The Ocean to Be Recognized as a Living Being With Inherent Rights”
By Mike McRae. Science Alert. October 18, 2022.
“Spain gives personhood status to Mar Menor salt-water lagoon”
Associated Press. Courthouse News Service. September 21, 2022.
“Faith In Nature Legally appoints ‘Nature’ to its Board of Directors”
Ecojurisprudence Monitor. 2022.
“We humans need to open our minds to the personhood of nonhuman animals”
By Daniel P. Horan. National Catholic Reporter. June 29, 2022.
“The ‘Only One Earth’ And Her Legal Rights: A Paradigm Shift From Anthropocentrism To Ecocentrism”
By Neema Noor. Live Law. June 6, 2022.
“Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It”
By Katie Surma. Inside Climate News. May 4, 2022.
“Does This Water Have Legal Rights?”
By Michaela Haas. Reasons to be Cheerful. April 22, 2022.
“This Canadian river is now legally a person. It’s not the only one.”
By Chloe Berge. National Geographic. April 15, 2022.
“Ecuador gives Indigenous people – and nature – a big win”
By Juanita Rico. Open Democracy. March 8, 2022.
“Respecting the rights of nature is the only way out of climate chaos and biodiversity collapse”
By Method Gundidza. Daily Maverick. March 7, 2022.
“Panama Passes National Rights of Nature Law”
Press Release. February 25, 2022.
“‘Rights of Nature’ laws can strengthen Indigenous sovereignty, provide path to environmental justice”
By Ray Levy Uyeda. Prism. February 22, 2022.
“Rights of Nature Initiative to be Considered by Chile’s Constitutional Convention after Show of Public Support”
Press Release. February 10, 2022.
“In Colombia’s Chocó region, ‘river guardians’ protect the rights of the Rio Atrato”
By Brian Roewe. EarthBeat. January 28, 2022.
“Is a river a person? Advocates for the legal rights of nature say yes”
By Barbara Fraser. EarthBeat.January 24, 2022.
“This wild river in Quebec is now considered a person. How will it help with conservation?”
By Joel Balsam. Photos and videos by Stephanie Foden. The Globe and Mail. December 19, 2021.
“Rights for nature: How granting a river ‘personhood’ could help protect it”
By Justine Townsend, Alexis Bunten, Catherine Iorns, and Lindsay Borrows. The Conversation. June 3, 2021.
“Legal rights for the Turag: rivers as living entities in Bangladesh”
By Mohammad Sohidul Islam and Erin O’Donnell. Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 23, issue 2 (2020): 160-177.
“Convention on Biodiversity Advances the Rights of Nature in Proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework”
Earth Law Center. September 2, 2020.
“Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature: Evoking the Great Work”
By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim. Kosmos. Winter 2019.
The Human Right to a Healthy Environment:
The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
“Right to a Healthy Environment”
United Nations Human Rights. July 2024 newsletter.
“The Right to a Healthy Environment: A User’s Guide”
By David R. Boyd. April 2024.
“The Right to a Healthy Environment”
By Alyssa Ng. Center for Earth Ethics. December 18, 2023.
“The Right to a Healthy Environment: Looking Ahead”
Episcopal Church Center, New York. June 6, 2023.
The Right to a Healthy Environment
By John Knox. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
