This is a PowerPoint for a presentation I gave recently at CNU21, the annual gathering of the Congress for New Urbanism, in Salt Lake City. I was honored to serve on a panel presentation titled "Urbanism and the Land," with Susan Mudd of CNU and Laura Hanson of the Jordan River Commission. This presentation was intended to share with urban planners my expression of Nature's Role in Sustainability, and to outline my framework for what Father Thomas Berry called Earth Jurisprudence. He called on the legal profession to "articulate the conditions for the integral functioning of the Earth process." My Evolutionary Law framework describes the elements of the Earth process, including The Rights of Nature, sustainable Rights to Nature, Biopilia, Biomimicry, Cooperation, and Coherence (Quantum and Ecological). When those elements are implemented in a synergistic way, they lead to greater Biodiversity, Natural Resilience and Natural Happiness (indicators of the Integral Functioning of the Earth Process).
2. “Look deep into nature, and then you will
understand everything better.”
- Albert Einstein
3. My Connection To Sustainability
To achieve a viable human-earth situation a
new jurisprudence, Earth
Jurisprudence, must articulate the
conditions for the integral functioning of the
Earth process.
Father Thomas Berry
14. Beyond Ethics and Morality
Nature Will Restore Equilibrium
With Us Or Without Us
15. Rights Of Nature Are Here Now
Ecuador’s Constitution
New Zealand Grants Rights To A River
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
24+ U. S. Cities’ Rights of Nature Ordinances
U. N. Declaration on Rights of Mother Earth
16. Santa Monica Rights of Nature Ordinance
Pittsburgh Rights of Nature Ordinance
Cities Are Starting To Make The Connection
22. Biophilia is the “connections that human beings
subconsciously seek with the rest of life.”
Harvard Biologist E. O. Wilson
What Is Biophilia?
23. What Are Biophilic Cities?
"Biophilic Cities contain abundant nature;
they care about, seek to protect, restore and
grow this nature, and they strive to foster
deep connections and daily contact with
the natural world.”
www.biophiliccities.org
30. Cities Focused On Biodiversity
Chicago Wilderness
Portland Intertwine Alliance
Bay Area Biomimicry Network
Vancouver Greenest City 2020
31. U.N. Warns Of World Without Water
Quote from UN Secretary General on Urban Water Shortages
32.
33. Preserving Biodiversity Is Key
"Biodiversity and the ecosystem services
it provides are central to achieving the
vision of a water secure world."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
34. Nature is a system based on cooperation, not competition.
Cellular Biologist, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., Author of “Spontaneous Evolution”
Cooperation
35. “Nature has an inherent order, and we damage our
communities and ourselves if we don’t learn to live
within it.” Jordan River Commission
36. Ecological coherence is an essential
condition for healthy ecosystems.
European Commission on Green Infrastructure
Ecological
Coherence
60. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and
rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
Rumi
Editor's Notes
www.minddrivelegal.com
Teller Lake. Photo courtesy of Boulder Open Space Mountain Parks Department.
For more on Problems vs. Predicaments, see http://www.peakprosperity.com/Thomas Berry: We are changing the geosystems, biosystems on a scale of millions of years. We are terminating the last 65 million years of life development.That is a Predicament and our response must be a Mindset shift
Rich Louv (Keynote Speaker) identified NDD as a critical challenge, esp. for childrenI believe Nature Deficit Disorder is The Earth Community's Predicament
Every being – to exist – has three rights: the right to be, the right to habitat, and the right to fulfill its role in the great community of existence.“ The role defines the rights.
Headwaters of the Colorado River.
Photos courtesy of the Jordan River Commission. See C&NN and Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights. Nature Is Our Habitat: Our “right to habitat” includes our right to have a deep connection to the rest of Nature, not just as a resource, but as an integral aspect of our well-being. Annelies Henstra, a Dutch human rights attorney, calls this the “forgotten human right.”
Image from E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: www.eowilsonfoundation.org
Green Roof:_; Green Walkway in the Tree Canopy: Singapore; Green Wall: ; Green Wildlife Bridge: Banff, Alberta Canada. Vancouver has a goal: by 2020 every citizen will have a park or other natural environment within a 5 minute walk.
See the story of how Portland designers came upon this biomimicry based Eco-District. http://ingienous.com/?page_id=11664
This is the view from Boulder County’s “Osprey Cam” of a pair of osprey that has been returning to this nesting platform for the past 10 years. Live video and a video/photo timeline is available athttp://www.bouldercounty.org/os/openspace/pages/ospreycamera.aspx
Coyote,Mountain Lion, Black Bear, Mink.
Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks “Critter Cam” Shots. Mountain Lion, North American River Otter, Bobcat, Beaver.
Images from National Geographic: [cite]
Images from National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/mount-st-helens/cook-photography
Images from National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/mount-st-helens/cook-photography
Images from National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/mount-st-helens/cook-photography
Images from National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/mount-st-helens/cook-photography
Images from National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/mount-st-helens/cook-photography