11. Thomas Linzey: Rights of Nature for our Non-Human Kin

Podcast transcript (pdf) We welcome Thomas Linzey to our program today, on the topic of “The Rights of Nature, Bringing Indigenous Perspectives into the Legal System.” Thomas Linzey serves as senior legal counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights – CDER - a nonprofit organization committed to globally advancing environmental rights. He is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary community rights and rights of nature movements, which have resulted in the adoption of several hundred municipal laws across the United States. In 2008, he assisted the Ecuadorian constitutional assembly to draft its Rights of Nature provisions for the new Ecuadorian constitution. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Forbes, and The Nation magazine.