Category Archives: politics

The people say, “It’s time to end handouts to big oil!”

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Note from Priscilla: This is my first post from the Rio Earth Summit, where I’m a guest of tcktcktck.org after winning their blogging contest earlier this spring. “The people are having their say,” Jamie Henn, communications director for 350.org, announced … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged 350.org, Avaaz.org, climate change, fossil fuel subsidies, global warming, Rio Earth Summit, Rio+20, Twitter | Comments Off

Preparing for the Rio Earth Summit

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

It’s official! In five days I leave for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Yes, I won the blogging contest sponsored by tcktcktck.org, with this winning blog post. Thanks to all of you who commented on the post; the … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged climate change, global warming, indigenous traditions, People's Summit, rights of nature, Rio Earth Summit, Rio+20 | Comments Off

Why do the rights of nature matter?

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I’m sitting in the audience at a writers’ conference a couple of years ago listening to poets talk about nature. I look forward in this session to being inspired, as I was earlier by Pattiann Rogers, who said, The Earth and … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics, writing | Tagged climate change, Cormac Cullinan, democracy, ecocide, global warming, Mia Nussbaum, Pattiann Rogers, Polly Higgins, rights of nature, writing | Comments Off

A glorious–and scary–spring

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

We’ve had seventy-plus-degree weather since early March. It’s been glorious—day after day of stunningly beautiful weather. Every flowering tree that was ever planted in Boulder has been blooming for weeks. Flowers are so thick the air is heavy with their scent, … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged climate change, global warming | 2 Comments

Am I going to Rio+20?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

That partly depends on you! I’m one of eight finalists for a fantastic blogging prize sponsored by tcktcktck, an organization that runs global campaigns for climate action. Tcktcktck will send one blogger to Rio in June to blog from the … Continue reading →

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Why do we need a local bill of rights?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

You say you never heard of a local bill of rights? You’re not alone. I didn’t know much about it either until I attended Democracy School in February. Local or community bills of rights are ordinances that spell out certain natural rights … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged Bill of Rights, Community Bill of Rights, community rights bills, corporate personhood, democracy, Democracy School, environmental law, fracking, rights of nature | 12 Comments

Rolling back democracy

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

We learned in grade school about the Constitutional Convention, right? That summer of 1787 when the founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to write the US Constitution? Many of us would be shocked to learn that what the framers of the Constitution did … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, politics | Tagged Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Constitution, democracy, Democracy School, US history | Comments Off