Rights of Nature
Creating protective rights for rivers and nature is a primary focus for E.A.R.T.H and its Natures Rights Program. The environmental laws are no longer working, and attempting to make a government system that protects the environment, when the regulatory bodies side with industry, has proven to be a failure.
What is Rights of Nature? Rights of Nature is the recognition and honoring that Nature has rights. It is the recognition that our ecosystems – including trees, oceans, animals, mountains – have rights just as human beings have rights.
If Rights of Nature was law? According to GARN:”Under the current system of law in almost every country, nature is considered to be property, a treatment which confers upon the property owner the right to destroy ecosystems and nature on that property. When we talk about the “rights of nature,” it means recognizing that ecosystems and natural communities are not merely property that can be owned, but are entities that have an independent right to exist and flourish. Laws recognizing the rights of nature thus change the status of natural communities and ecosystems to being recognized as rights-bearing entities with rights that can be enforced by people, governments, and communities.”
What is our Natures Rights Program doing to help the Rights of Nature movement?
Connecting with people in communities and individuals through outreach
Educating people on community rights and Right of Nature.
Holding rallies and protests to put pressure on local and state governments to adopt the Rights of Nature into law.
Starting the Water Walk on April 8th 2022. We will walk north from Santa Fe along the Rio Grande advocating for the Rights of Nature. We will holding ceremonies and celebrations to help bring awareness along the way.
Advocating that municipalities adopt Bill of Rights that protects all communities, bodies of water and their surrounding ecosystems. By connecting local townships with the appropriate rights of nature organization that fits their community.
Working with local governments and communities toward the adoption of peace proclamations and the recognition of Rights of Nature.
Promoting and distributing information on Indigenous Law and Natures Law.
Holding events in municipalities that have already or are adopting a bill of rights that include the Rights of Nature. We are also advocating for state and local governments to adopt Rights of Nature into the constitution and/or into a local bill of rights
GARN, COCRN , CELDF, Earth Law and other organizations are helping create movement bringing the environment into the jurisprudence of the law is what is needed.
Phase 1
Now thanks to E.A.R.T.H (Environmental Action Reaching Throughout Humanity) which is a charitable non profit 501c3, we will be moving forward with Phase 1 in helping legislate the rights of nature in the Rocky Mountain States and initiating the Great Water Walk.
We will be contacting and gathering support from community organizations, environmental rights groups, religious and spiritual leaders, peace organizations non-GMO farms, politicians and more.
Joining with organizations and co-creating Bills of Rights for nature in the Rocky Mountain area.
Phase 2
To help build support financially as well as reserve donations of vehicles and supply. In phase 2 we will be initiating many different fundraisers as well as supporting the Great Water Walk.
Producing fundraising events
Starting the Rio Grande Water Walk starting in Santa Fe N.M. April 8th 2022
Helping communities in the Rocky Mountains create Bills of Rights to protect the local water sheds.
Speaking at special events and festivals throughout the coming years.
Building a crowd funding video and running a kick starter campaign.
Phase 3
E.A.R.T.H Natures Rights Program (NRP) moves across the Rocky mountain range with the Rio Grand Water Walk. Festivals along the way and numerous local events will mark the NRP progress and promote its message of world peace, disarmament, and protecting earths inherent rights. We plan on starting with no end until every river and body of water is seen in the court of law as a equal to corporations.