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- Videos and Audio Material
- Books
- Introductory Reading List: Earth jurisprudence and Earth Laws
- Journal Articles
- AELA PowerPoint Presentations
- Material for Children
- Links to Other Organisations
Videos and Audio Material
- Online book launch, featuring members of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA) - "From Environmental to Ecological Law"
2020 videos by AELA - Interviews and Podcasts with Dr Michelle Maloney, AELA
- 'Greenprints and AELA's vision for future governance', interview with Andrew Ward, Ethical Fields, 'Common Wealth Building' Series, 26 August 2020
- 'Beyond Crisis - creating systems change', "The Sustainability Hour", 18 August 2020
- 'Degrowth and Earth centred economies', interview with Michael Bayliss, Post Growth Australia,
4 August 2020 - 'Planetary Boundaries Series 2020', webinar series focusing on the planetary boundaries and living within our ecological limits, July 2020.
- 'Rights of Nature developments in Australia', presentation and interview with Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) - also featuring Diane Evers, WA Member of Parliament, 10 July 2020
- 'Rights of Nature and Earth jurisprudence - an introduction', Online "Couch Chat" with Cate Faehrmann, NSW Member of Parliament, 17 April 2020
- Earth jurisprudence and the Great Work, Thresholds Podcast, Rahamim Ecology Centre, interview with Sally Neaves, 3 March 2020
Individual Speakers
- Peter Burdon - TedX Adelaide, August 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPeUdO7wvA
- Peter Burdon - Peter Burdon on Wild Law, Planet Panel at Progressive Law Network 2012 Conference. http://siberink.bookslive.co.za/blog/2013/01/25/videos-peter-burdon-discusses-earth-jurisprudence-and-wild-law/
- Cormac Cullinan - If Mother Nature Could Sue, Festival of Dangerous Ideas (Ideas at the House) (2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS8_Kik1978
- Cormac Cullinan - Cullinan briefly discusses the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature (2011). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2y0IlOmqw
- Cormac Cullinan - Introductory speech at the Earth Laws Network, Southern Cross University (2011). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UrvU5a8DII
- Cormac Cullinan - speaking at the World People's Summit on Climate Change in Bolivia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJAq4jurD_c
- Judith Koons - Introductory speech at the Earth Laws Network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqrNzQtxmM
- Michelle Maloney - Wild Law and the role the arts can play in shifting cultures. Speaking at ‘Climates that art can change’, Griffith University, July 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14BOno4N5gI
- Michelle Maloney - speaks about Wild Law and AELA at a seminar held by Transition Bondi (May 2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdi7AxxQF9E
- Linda Sheehan - introductory speech at the Earth Laws Network, Southern Cross University (2011). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e24BdANBSc
- Linda Sheehan - TEDx Marin County, November 2013 - Earth Jujitsu, Rights of Nature and Climate Change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7BAK49KXU
- Dr. Vandana Shiva - Shiva Speaks at Earth Citizenship Required Today Conference (Conference held by Center for Earth Jurisprudence). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyhUhviQScA
- Dr. Vandana Shiva, Cormac Cullinan, Shannon Biggs, Pablo Salon - Why Nature Has Rights, February 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8SvBOIcjw
Films and Documentaries
- Planet and People First: A Global Exchange report Cochabamba, Bolivia 2010 from Global exchange on Vimeo. A 13-minute short film from the World People’s Climate Conference in Cochabamaba, Bolivia. https://vimeo.com/15298881
- Seeds of Freedom (Short film 30 mins, 2012). Produced by The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, in collaboration with MELCA Ethiopia, Navdanya International and GRAIN and narrated by Jeremy Irons. http://www.seedsoffreedom.info/
- Journey of the Universe (Film, 2011). A Collaboration of evolutionary philosopher, Brian Thomas Swimme, and historian of religions, Mary Evelyn Tucker. Journey of the Universe Educational Services. https://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/
- The Story of the Earth: The First 4.5 billion years, from Stardust to Living Planet, Robert M Hazen (2012)
- First Life, presented by David Attenborough (BBC)
- Wonders of the Universe, presented by Prof. Brian Cox (BBC)
- How to Grow a Planet, presented by Iain Stewart (BBC)
- Australia: The Time Travellers Guide, Richard Smith (ABC)
- Secrets of Our Living Planet, Chris Packham (SBS Series 2013)
Books
- Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (Three Rivers Press,1999)
- Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and religion in the 21st Century (Columbia University Press, 2009)
- Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert, From Environmental to Ecological Law, Series: Explorations in Environmental Studies, Routledge, (forthcoming 2020)
- Peter Burdon (ed), Exploring Wild Law, The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press, 2011)
- Cormac Cullinan. Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice (Green Books, 2003)
- Maloney, Michelle and Peter Burdon (eds) Wild Law in Practice (Routledge, Glasshouse Press, 2014)
- Susan, Hanna, Carl Folke, Karl-Goran Maler and Kenneth Arrow, Rights to Nature (Island Press, 1996)
- Tucker, Mary-Evelyn (ed), Evening Thoughts: Reflections on Earth as Sacred Community (The University of California Press, 2006)
- Nicholas Agar, Life's Intrinsic Value (Columbia University Press, 2001)
- Lawrence E Johnson, A Morally Deep World: An Essay on Moral Significance and Environmental Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
- Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees have standing? Law, Morality and the Environment (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. 2010)
Introductory Reading List: Earth jurisprudence and Earth Laws
Books
- Thomas Berry, “The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future”, Bell Tower, New York 1999
- Peter Burdon (ed), “Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence”, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2011
- Cormac Cullinan, “Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice”, Green Books, Totnes UK 2011
- Michelle Maloney and Peter Burdon (eds) “Wild Law in Practice”, Routledge Press, 2014
Online articles
- Cormac Cullinan, ‘If Nature Had Rights, What Would We Have to Give Up?’
https://orionmagazine.org/article/if-nature-had-rights/ - UKELA, ‘Wild Law in Practice’
https://www.ukela.org/content/page/6171/Wild Law Research Report published March 2009.pdf - Peter Burdon – Wild Law: Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence
http://www.therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/WildLaw-Philosophy-of-Earth-Jusrisprudence.pdf - Peter Burdon – Earth Rights: The Theory
http://www.therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/EarthRights-ATheory.pdf - Peter Burdon – Rights of Nature: Reconsidered
http://www.therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/TheRightsofNature-Reconsidered.pdf
Websites
- Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA)
- Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights - https://www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org/
- Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (CELDF) - https://celdf.org
- Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature - http://therightsofnature.org/
- Earth Jurisprudence Resource Center
- Earth Law Center (USA)
- Thomas Berry - http://www.thomasberry.org/
Journal Articles
- Glen-Peter Ahlers, Sr. ‘Earth Jurisprudence: A Pathfinder’ (2008) 11 Barry Law Review. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2489119
- Samuel Alexander, ‘Earth Jurisprudence and the Ecological Case for Degrowth,’ (2010) 37 Journal of Jurisprudence 2
- Samuel Alexander, 'Peak Oil and the Twilight of Growth' (October 8, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1941090 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1941090
- Peter Burdon, ‘A Theory of Earth Jurisprudence’ (2012) 37 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy
- Peter Burdon, ‘Earth Jurisprudence and the Murray-Darling, The Future of a River’ (2012) 27 Alternative Law Journal 82
- Peter Burdon, ‘The Great Jurisprudence’ (2011) 14 Southern Cross University Law Review
- Peter Burdon ‘Earth Rights: The Theory’ (2011) 1 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law e-Journal. http://www.therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/EarthRights-ATheory.pdf
- Peter Burdon, ‘What if Trees Could Sue?’ (2011) ABC Environment.
- Peter Burdon, ‘The Rights of Nature; Reconsidered.’ (2010) 49 Australian Humanities Review 69. http://www.therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/TheRightsofNature-Reconsidered.pdf
- Peter Burdon, ‘Wild Law: the Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence’ (2010) 35 Alternative Law Journal 2. http://www.therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/WildLaw-Philosophy-of-Earth-Jusrisprudence.pdf
- Peter Burdon, ‘Thomas Berry and Earth Jurisprudence’ (2010) EarthSong Journal: Perspectives in Ecology, Spirituality and Education 12
- Lorraine Code, ‘Ecological Responsibilities: Which Trees? Where? Why?’ (2012) 84, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 3
- Cormac Cullinan, ‘If Nature Had Rights What Would We Need to Give up?’ (2008) Orion Magazine - https://orionmagazine.org/article/if-nature-had-rights/
- Elaine C. Hsiao, ‘Whanganui River Agreement – Indigenous Rights and Rights of Nature’ (2013) 42 Environmental Policy and Law 6
- Judith E. Koons, ‘Earth Jurisprudence and the Story of Oil: Intergenerational Justice for the Post-Petroleum Period’ (2011) 46 University of San Francisco Law Review, Summer
- Judith E. Koons. ‘What is Earth Jurisprudence? Key Principles to Transform Law for the Health of the Planet’ (2009) 18 Penn State Environmental Law Review 47
- Judith E. Koons. ‘Earth Jurisprudence: The Moral Value of Nature’ (2008) 25, Pace Environmental Law Review 2
- Judith E. Koons. ‘Earth Jurisprudence: The Future of Law and The Planet’ (2008) 12 Young Lawyer 9
- Michelle Maloney, ‘Earth Jurisprudence and Sustainable Consumption’ (2011) 14 Southern Cross University Law Review
- Ben Mylius, ‘Beyond Thought and Language’ (2011) 14 Southern Cross University Law Review
- Ngaire Naffine, ‘Legal Personality and the Natural World: On The Persistence of The Human Measure of Value’ (2012) 68 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 3
- Gonzalo Oviedo and Tatjana Puschkarsky, ‘World Heritage and Rights-based Approaches to Nature Conservation’ (2012) 18 International Journal of Heritage Studies 285
- Philippe Sands, ‘On Being 40: A Celebration of “Should Trees Have Standing?”’ (2012) 68 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 3
- Sister Patricia Siemen, OP, Esquire. ‘Earth Jurisprudence: Towards Law in Nature’s Balance’ (2008) 11 Barry Law Review, Fall
- Christopher D Stone, ‘Response to Commentators’ (2012) 100 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 3
- Patrick Tolan, Ecocentric Perspectives on Global Warming: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence (2009) 39 Global Studies Journal
- Wild Law: Is There Any Evidence of Earth Jurisprudence in Existing Law and Practice? (UKELA and Gaia Foundation, 2009) https://www.ukela.org/content/page/6171/Wild%20Law%20Research%20Report%20published%20March%202009.pdf
AELA PowerPoint Presentations
View AELA PowerPoint Presentations, videos, and past event programs on the AELA Past Events page.
Material for Children
Books
- Joseph Anthony, In A Nutshell (Dawn Publications, 1999). For reviews see: https://www.dawnpub.com/our-books/in-a-nutshell/
- Joseph Cornell, John Muir: My Life with Nature (Dawn Publications, 2000). For reviews see: https://www.dawnpub.com/our-books/john-muir-my-life-with-nature/
- Dr Seuss, The Lorax
- Barbara Shaw McKinney, A Drop Around the World (Dawn Publications, 1998). For reviews see: https://www.dawnpub.com/our-books/drop-around-the-world/
- Jennifer Morgan, Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story (Book One) (Dawn Publications, 2002)
- Jennifer Morgan, From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story (Book Two) (Dawn Publications, 2003)
- Jennifer Morgan, Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story (Book Three) (Dawn Publications, 2006). For reviews see: https://www.dawnpub.com/our-books/born-with-a-bang/book-reviews-for-born-with-a-bang/
- David L. Rice, LifeTimes (Dawn Publications, 1997). For reviews see: https://www.dawnpub.com/our-books/lifetimes/
Online Materials
- Educating for a Sustainable Future. https://coolaustralia.org/
Links to Other Organisations
- Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights
https://www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org/ - Center for Earth Jurisprudence (Florida, USA)
http://www.earthjurist.org/ - Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (USA)
https://celdf.org/ - Earth Law Center, (California, USA)
https://www.earthlawcenter.org/ - Earth Laws Network (Southern Cross University, Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG7NVY2vGB4 - Fundacion Pachamama, Ecuador
https://www.pachamama.org/ - Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
https://therightsofnature.org/ - Navdanya, India
http://www.navdanya.org/ - The Gaia Foundation
https://www.gaiafoundation.org/ - Thomas Berry
http://www.thomasberry.org/ - Wild Law UK
https://www.ukela.org/UKELA/Networks/Special-Interest-Groups/Wild-law.aspx
