Archive for the ‘ecuador’ Category

Putting the rights of nature in Ecuador’s constitution

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

It sounds like a stunt by the San Francisco City Council. But Ecuador is engaged in nothing less than an effort to redefine the relationship between human beings and the natural world. And as crazy as it may seem, the movement to give nature legal rights didn't start in Ecuador's ...

Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

On July 7, 2008, the Ecuador Constitutional Assembly - composed of one hundred and thirty (130) delegates elected countrywide to rewrite the country's Constitution - voted to approve articles for the new constitution recognizing rights for nature and ecosystems. "If adopted in the final constitution by the people, Ecuador would ...