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Earth Rights, Earth Healing: Applying Nature’s Laws
Schumacher College's week long course on making new laws to protect nature more...Roundwood timber framing: the greener way to build
Maddy Harland
19th October, 2010
Using our native softwoods and 'in the round' construction, this innovative technique results in beautiful buildings with high environmental credentials more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: James Thornton of ClientEarth
Matilda Lee
6th December, 2010
Can lawyers really save the world? James Thornton from UK law firm ClientEarth believes they can - and is leading the way in achieving ecological justice more...
Activists win historic ruling on 'people's law on the environment'
Tom Levitt
26th August, 2010
Crippling costs of legal action prevents people mounting challenges over environmental damage, finds UN Committee more...
Scottish climate activists in the dock hope to set legal precedent
Ecologist
14th June, 2010
Climate activists who broke into Aberdeen Airport hope to convince jury their actions were justified in preventing larger crime of runaway climate change more...
Total UK shareholders 'must feel some pain' over Buncefield disaster
Ecologist
15th April, 2010
Oil giant Total to be sentenced following trial of companies implicated in largest peacetime explosion in Europe and significant environmental contamination more...
Landmark court ruling sees off Redcar property developers
Emma Montlake
15th March, 2010
A victory for Teesside residents could have legal implications that help others fighting to preserve green spaces in their communities more...
How the legal system is preventing environmental justice
Sarah Lewis-Hammond and Tom Levitt
4th February, 2010
Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action more...
The community-owned, timber-framed, self-heating village shop
Maddy Harland
26th January, 2010
In an economic climate where village shops are closing, woodsman Ben Law has helped his village open a new shop with a difference more...
Legal costs review may not help environmental cases
Ecologist
18th January, 2010
Major judicial report may not help NGOs and individuals challenge environmental damage in courts without facing prohibitive financial risk more...
Beekeeping for ecology, economy and food security
Jamie Skey
1st September, 2009
Bees Abroad, a UK beekeeping charity, has initiated a project to train and support Malawian beekeepers. Find out how you can help... more...
Using the law to protect the environment
Andrew Wasley
19th June, 2009
Investigation into the dangers faced by lawyers who champion human rights and environmental justice. more...
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Enshrining legal rights for the planet
Polly Higgins
10th December, 2008
Just as the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War gave birth to the swift implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago in 1948, we now have a planetary crisis that needs to be addressed with equal urgency. Now is the time to call for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights. more...
Activists fight to save 'people's law on the environment'
Ecologist
23rd September, 2009
Ruling would allow NGOs and individuals to challenge environmental damage in courts without prohibitive financial risks more...
The Visionaries
Ecologist
20th March, 2009
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.more...
Visionaries: Polly Higgins
Ecologist
1st April 2009
‘The planet is currently enslaved to humans abusing its inherent rights – the right not to be enslaved or polluted,’ says environmentalist and barrister Polly Higgins. more...
US academic calls for a revolution in copyright laws, arguing that they hinder intellectual progress
News
15th April, 2009
Speaking to an audience at the RSA in London, Professor James Boyle said:‘We need to build a movement to preserve the public domain. I think we need an environmental movement for the public domain of the mind.’ more...
Climate change politics
Joss Garman
19th June, 2008
As an excuse to do nothing itself, this Labour Government has often hidden behind US intransigence on climate change, so it’ll be interesting to see how Gordon Brown might respond to a US President more progressive than he on global warming. more...
US climate change policy
Joseph Mendelson
4th December, 2007
The past several years have witnessed a rush to the courthouse by lawyers around the world seeking to tackle climate change. more...
Can lawyers save the world?
James Thornton
12th June, 2007
A new species of eco-lawyer is emerging from the legal undergrowth. James Thornton advocates a wig-and-gown approach so campaigners can strengthen their case against unethical corporations more...Members
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