Does anyone know (personally, professionally, or otherwise) of municipal regulations requiring green space on commercial property? US is most useful, but I'll take anything, and from green roof to potted plants by the door.
Please boost, and please suggest hashtags that might help!
One of my projects for 2024: attempting to apply #RightsOfNature to the land we tend as a native plant sanctuary. If the land has legal personhood, they would be so much easier to protect and support for years to come, not dependent on particular humans.
If anyone has experience with this--especially in US-- and wants to offer assistance, let me know.
"During a recent lawsuit in Washington state, salmon had a little help from their allies, the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe, who argued “Sahkuméhu (the Sauk-Suiattle) have a sacred covenant with Tsuladxʷ’s (salmon) and the Stulekʷ (river) and all living creatures without which we cannot live.”
#SavingCarbonSinks: Ecuadorian social #movements have bypassed pro-extractivist #politicians with a national #referendum to keep #oil from Block 43 also known as “Yasuní ITT,” a concession in the deepest part of the Amazonian protected Yasuní National #Forest, in the ground. While movements around the world have successfully achieved #mining moratoria, this is an important new strategy for #environmental and #Indigenous#rights activists.
The new law "will allow any Panamanian citizen to be the voice of sea turtles and defend them legally. ... We will be able to hold governments, corporations, and public citizens legally accountable for violations of the rights of sea turtles."
The sentiment reminds me of something said by barrister Charles Forster, who spent a year living like a badger (yes, really):
"We act towards the natural world with a lack of empathy, which, were we to express ourselves like that towards humans, would be regarded as frankly psychopathic.”
Der Jurist Jens Kersten (Prof. für Öffentliches Recht und Verwaltungswissenschaften an der #LMU) hält das deutsche Rechtssystem für „grundlegend ökologisch reformbedürftig“. Den „Fridays for Future“-Aktivistinnen und -Aktivisten empfiehlt er Jura zu studieren und dann „das ökologische Grundgesetz für das 21. Jh.“ zu schreiben, in welchem die Natur eine eigene Stimme bekäme, Strände, Wälder und Tiere dann gewissermaßen selbst gegen ihre Zerstörung vor Gericht ziehen könnten.