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Holy Frack! Pittsburgh Bans Gas Drilling Through Rights-based Ordinance
Pittsburgh is the first major U.S. city to adopt a rights-based ordinance that includes the legal rights for nature. Global Exchange’s Community Rights Program has been working to expand rights-based...
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Got Climate? Why California Communities are Rising Against Fracking (and why...
The following post was written by Alina Evans and Anna Campanelli, interns with the Global Exchange Community Rights Program. Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) is one of the most destructive energy...
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Legalizing Sustainability? Santa Monica Recognizes Rights of Nature
First-in-California law seeks to make sustainability legal On April 9, the City Council of Santa Monica voted 7-0 to adopt the state’s first ever Bill of Rights for Sustainability, directing the city...
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A One-Man Fracking Ban
The following post was written by Caitlin Kawaguchi, summer intern with the Global Exchange Community Rights Program. Cleghorn announcing the easement next to Lucinda’s memorial tree. When J. Stephen...
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Mendocino County: Charting a new course for water protection?
Drought evident at Lake Mendocino From the “30,000 feet in the air” perspective, water politics in California have always been confused and complicated. It is a state prone to drought, but this time...
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Community Rights & Fracking Ban Tour hits Mendocino County
Increasingly, communities throughout California are facing the dangers of hydro-fracturing (fracking). Despite the severe drought plaguing farmers, farming communities in the Central Valley and...
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Why Mora County New Mexico is Fighting Frackers for Your Rights, too
By Kiara Collins, Community Rights program intern, Global Exchange Mora County Road Signs Mora County, New Mexico is not the first place that comes to mind for challenging the ‘rights’ of corporations....
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Mendocino County’s Historic Vote Elevates Residents’ Rights, Bans Fracking
Mendocino County Becomes First in California to pass a Community Bill of Rights At 8:00 pm on Election Night 2014, residents of picturesque Mendocino County concerned about the availability and quality...
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Fracking Corporations Played the Democracy Game – Two Communities Set New...
By Shannon Biggs and Tish O’Dell Around the country, communities fighting fracking took their cause to the ballot box in the 2014 cycle — or tried to. But even before voters got a chance to voice...
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