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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) > > > > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the GNHRE list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GNHRE&A=1 > > <Weston-Bollier - Green Governance Flyer.pdf> > > > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the GNHRE list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GNHRE&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GNHRE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GNHRE&A=1