UN asking people to post Messages of the World for Rio+20

Momentum is clearly building for Rio+20. I encourage you to add a 140 character message advocating Rights of Nature. The small things add up one voice at a time!

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4-6, 2012 – 20 years after the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . . . → Read More: UN asking people to post Messages of the World for Rio+20


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Call for Rio+20 priorities – Speak up now!

Invitation to contribute to Viewpoints For EarthSummit2012 – Rio+20 Deadline July 15, 2011 Act now and be a voice for Rights of Nature! We want the Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth to be formally adopted!

The Natural Resources Forum, a quarterly journal issued by the United Nations Department of Economic and . . . → Read More: Call for Rio+20 priorities – Speak up now!


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13 year old Felix Finkbeiner at UN – Plant for the Planet

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Global Campaign to Bestow Legal Rights on Mother Earth

by Thalif Deen, Inter Press Services

UNITED NATIONS, May 24, 2011 (IPS) – An international coalition of academics and environmental activists has launched a global campaign for the creation of a new U.N. convention to protect “mother earth”.

Thalif Deen of Inter Press Services writes about the global campaign for the creation of a . . . → Read More: Global Campaign to Bestow Legal Rights on Mother Earth


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2011 Year of the Forest

Pristine rainforest of Ecuador

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests.  The earth’s forests are critical to the health of our global eco-system.  Our rainforests are often referred to as the “lungs of our planet”.

In declaring 2011 the International Year of the Forest, the UN’s intention . . . → Read More: 2011 Year of the Forest


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