Thanks Tom.  That's brilliant.  And good luck on the 'Should Trees
Have Standing' opportunities.  Have you read the special edition/book
I edited on that? Some great stuff in there.

A :)

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Tom Kerns <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah boy, Anna, I can't tell you how happy I am to see this. I downloaded the
> kindle version this evening, have already spent a couple hours enjoying it,
> and have already emailed several friends and colleagues about it too. I
> really like the endorsement Mary Wood, one of our great University of Oregon
> Law School profs, gave the book:
>
> "This book is a tour de force. Bold and visionary, yet intensely practical,
> this book transforms the "tragedy of the commons" to the promise of the
> commons. At a time when leading voices call for a paradigm shift in how
> humans live and organize their economic behavior, this book actually tells
> us what that shift could look like, and how to begin it. It is a
> game-changer, a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of the
> planet."
> -- Mary Christina Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor, Environmental and
> Natural Resources Law Program, University of Oregon School of Law
>
>
> And a huge "Thank You" to you, Burns and David, for this very impressive
> work. You've obviously put an enormous amount of work into it. We can only
> hope that it will serve as a big catalyst in changing the way the world
> works.
>
> And besides all that it ties in perfectly with a little project I'm working
> on right now, applying to be an Oregon Humanities Commission speaker for the
> next two years, visiting communities around the state speaking about the
> "Should Trees Have Standing" question.
>
> The synchronicities of these things never cease to amaze me.
>
> Tom
>
> Dr Tom Kerns
> Director, Environment and Human Rights Advisory
> Online course: Environment and Human Rights
> Book: Environmentally Induced Illness
> Board member: Beyond Toxics
> Board member: Concerned Citizens for Clean Air
> Yachats, OR
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Anna Grear <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear GNHRE members,
>
> Allow me to pass on to you exciting news of a new book by two of our
> members, Burns Weston and David Bollier.  I would really like to encourage
> as many of you as possible to engage with this important new text - and more
> importantly, with the agenda it represents.  Indeed, The Journal of Human
> Rights and the Environment will be the formal international launch pad for
> scholarly engagement with a Draft Universal Covenant Affirming a Human
> Rights to Commons and Rights-based Governance of Earth's Natural Wealth,
> drafted by Burns and Bollier - to be launched in Edition 5.1 'Human Bodies
> in Material Space'.  The idea is to introduce this document for discussion,
> critical engagement and further development and for the GNHRE to play a key
> role in engagement with the implications of the proposed Draft Covenant and
> its development - as well as with any relevant actions and campaigns
> emerging from this new consciousness-raising initiative.  The GNHRE and the
> JHRE are fully committed to the creation of a vigorous discursive space for
> precisely such agendas.
>
> Here is the personal message from Burns - and please note the attached flyer
> for the book,
>
> Warm regards, Anna
>
>
>
> Message from Burns Weston:
>
>
>
>
>
> I'm eager to share with you my good news.  As evidenced by the attached
> promotional flyer, my new book (with commons scholar David Bollier) has been
> just recently published/released from Cambridge University Press: Green
> Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons.
> It also has been posted on Amazon.com, complete with seven early "reviews":
> http://www.amazon.com/Green-Governance-Ecological-Survival-Commons/dp/1107034361/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358267294&sr=1-8&keywords=burns+weston--including
> an endorsement from James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for
> Space Studies in New York City who, as you know, early sounded the alarm
> about global warming and climate change some 30 years ago.  Judging from
> these early "reviews," we like to think that we may have produced a policy
> game-changer of sorts.  At least we hope so.
>
>
>
> That's the good news.  The unhappy news is that, because the book is
> published as an academic treatise whose primary purchasers are college and
> university libraries, the price is distressingly steep.  However, we were
> able to persuade Cambridge to release a less costly Kindle edition via
> Amazon.com, now online, and they are now discounting the cost of the book
> itself by 20%.  Also they will publish an even less expensive paperback
> edition next year.  Perhaps you can use your organizational affiliations to
> acquire a copy for yourselves; but in any case we hope you will be able to
> spread the word about our book to relevant policy-makers, colleagues,
> libraries, bookstores, and friends.  In our humble opinion, we think it
> worthy of widespread responsible attention.
>
>
>
> Allow me, please, to explain this blunt talk: David Bollier's and my book is
> not your ordinary academic book.  Scholarly though it be, it is also, even
> fundamentally, a call to (peaceful) arms to get serious--humanly, in contrast
> to technologically--about the environmental degradation that is all around us
> from local to global and including, of course, global warming and climate
> change which, as you well know, is the greatest threat facing humankind
> today excepting perhaps nuclear proliferation.   Embedded in our book's
> Appendix, indeed, is a Universal Covenant Affirming A Human Right to
> Commons- and Rights-based Governance of Earth's Natural Wealth and Resources
> that we prepared which calls upon "all citizens, organizations, and
> governments of the world to commit themselves to recovering the Earth and
> humanity's shared inheritance and future creations"--and to do so with a keen
> sense of urgency about "taking decisive, collective action to transform
> existing systems and structures of ecological governance so as to reduce
> climate change, loss of biodiversity, and other severe threats to Earth's
> life-giving and life-sustaining capacity."  Our Covenant, based on and built
> from our book, will soon be going viral over the Internet, and will be
> launched, internationally, as the basis for an extended engagement and
> campaign in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the
> Environment, specifically to excite scholarly engagement with the Covenant
> as the basis for future reflection, action and hopefully, transformation.
> We hope, thus to make waves as well as news worldwide.
>
>
>
> Kind and hopeful greetings,
>
>
>
>              Burns Weston (and David Bollier)
>
>
>
>
>
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