Montgomery believes that benefit corporations . . . John Montgomery in David M. Carl and Hank Nguyen, ‘California Benefit Corporations: Installing a Corporate Conscience’, Business Law Journal, 23 March 2012.
Stone first defines his use of the term ‘legal rights . . .’ Christopher Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? Law, morality and the environment, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.
Early American jurists, for example . . . ibid, p. 2.
‘to prosecution for the paternity of a bastard . . .’ ibid, p. 181.
As Stone says, these examples show . . .’ ibid, p. 181.
‘The reason for this little . . .’ ibid, p. 3.
Stone says it is not inevitable . . . ibid, p. 8.
Given that our own health . . . includes the environment.’ ibid, p. 23.
Alone among thinkers in this book . . . ibid, p. 24.
As Stone then argues, this radical shift . . . ibid, p. 27.
We can only reach a ‘heightened awareness’ ibid, p. 28.
‘hard giving indeed . . .’ ibid, p. 268.
Stone concludes by suggesting . . . ibid, p. 31.
He said he knew the exact . . . ibid, p. xi.
‘How would such a posture in law . . .’ ibid, p. xi.
because the construction would damage its ‘aesthetic and ecological balance’ ibid, p. xiii.
the most ‘committed civil libertarian . . .’ Time, ‘The Law: The court’s uncompromising libertarian’, 24 November 1975.
‘The critical question . . .’ Christopher Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? Law, morality and the environment, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, p.
definition of natural community, The Encyclopedia of Earth, http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/154786/.
as journalist Jason Mark said . . . Jason Mark, ‘Natural Law’, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2012.
‘simply asserted a community’s . . . ibid.
‘we are empowering . . .’ ibid.
the Tamaqua Borough ordinance, ibid.
‘It shall be unlawful . . .’ Tamaqua Borough Sewage Sludge Ordinance, http://www.celdf.org/article.php?id=440.
She wrote that the borough . . . Elisabeth Eaves, ‘Tree Rights’, Forbes, 24 May 2007.
‘Natural communities and ecosystems . . .’ Clare Kendall, ‘A new law of nature’, The Guardian, 24 September 2008.
‘As a country devastated by . . .’ Global Exchange, ‘Does Nature Have Rights?’, globalexchange.org, 6 December 2010.
Because of their experience with environmental legislation . . . Cyril Mychalejko, ‘Ecuador’s constitution gives rights to nature’, upsidedownworld.org, 25 September 2008.
‘the new Constitution redefines people’s . . .’ ibid.
‘The whole idea seemed yet another example . . .’ Jason Mark, ‘Natural Law’, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2012.
The new legislation was tested . . . Natalia Greene, ‘The first successful case of the Rights of Nature implementation in Ecuador’, therightsofnature.org.
Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth states that . . . ‘The Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Nature’, therightsofnature.org, 22 April 2010.
Yasuni National Park . . . Associated Press in Quito, ‘Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling’, 16 August 2013.
David Hill, ‘Leaked documents cast doubt on Ecuador’s commitment to forest plan’, The Guardian, 2 July 2014.
the report argued that the UNFCCC ‘is based not . . .’ Global Exchange, Does Nature Have Rights?: Transforming Grassroots Organizing to Protect People and the Planet, globalexchange.org.
Maude Barlow has high hopes . . . Thalif Deen, ‘Global Campaign to Bestow Legal Rights on Mother Earth’, Inter Press Service, 24 May 2011.
which is central to a new body of legislation . . . ‘Law 300 Framework Law of Mother Earth and Holistic Development for Living Well’, http://theredddesk.org/countries/laws/law-300-framework-law-mother-earth-and-holistic-development-living-well, 2012.
Under the new law, Mother Nature is defined . . . ibid.
Pablo Solón said ‘If . . . you think that the only entities . . .’ Steven Edwards, ‘UN document would give “Mother Earth” same rights as humans’, canada.com, 13 April 2011.
The London School of Economics called Bolivia’s law . . . Michael Nachmany, Sam Fankhauser, Terry Townshend, Murray Collins, Tucker Landesman, Adam Matthews, Carolina Pavese, Katharina Rietig, Philip Schleifer and Joana Setzer, ‘The GLOBE Climate Legislation Study: A Review of Climate Change Legislation in 66 Countries’, London School of Economics, Fourth Edition, Globe International, 2014.
Begonia Filgueira ‘And about time for rights to nature?’, ukhumanrightsblog.com, 2 June 2011.
‘to think that only humans . . .’ Pablo Solón, ‘“Green economy” versus the rights of nature’, climateandcapitalism.com, 7 June 2012.
In the preliminary agreement . . . Kate Shuttleworth, ‘Agreement entitles Whanganui River to legal identity’, The New Zealand Herald, 30 August 2012.
Christopher Finlayson said that this was ‘a major step . . .’ Christopher Finlayson, ‘Whanganui River Deed of Settlement Initialled’, National Party website, 26 March 2014.
recognise the river as ‘Te Awa Tupua, an . . .’ ibid.
‘embraces the spiritual aspects . . .’ ibid.
‘If the sea had rights . . .’ Begonia Filgueria and Ian Mason, ‘Wild side of the law’, The Guardian, 4 May 2009.
EPILOGUE
or, as he put it, to advance . . . Stone, p. 23
‘Holding a title to property . . .’ Dr Pita Sharples in Brendan Kennedy, ‘I am the River and the River is Me: The implications of a river receiving personhood status’, Cultural Survival Inc, December 2012.
we need to give up ‘some of our . . .’ Stone, p. 28