Thomas Linzey, speaking at MUM, Fairfield, Iowa on Wednesday 9/18/2013
Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, will present a new paradigm to protect nature — a paradigm based on rights. Today, communities across the country are finding they don’t have the right to make critical decisions for themselves — such as the right to say “no” to fracking, “no” to factory farming, “no” to smart meters, and the right to say “yes” to sustainable energy and food systems. Mr. Linzey has worked with the government of Ecuador to write a new constitution, which grants nature the inalienable rights necessary for its preservation and evolution.