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Penzance Council has declared itself as an Earth Protector Town, part of the Stop Ecocide campaign, with unanimous support from all Councillors. Penzance joins Helston, Glastonbury, Stroud, and Woodbridge Town Councils in becoming an Earth Protector Town, with communities in the South West continuing to lead the way in actively tackling the climate emergency. At a virtual Full Council meeting held on January 18 2021, and streamed live on Facebook, Councillors voted unanimously to sign up to the scheme which is overseen by the Stop Ecocide campaign. By signing up, Penzance Council has ...

buen vivir and  sumak kawsay (“good living”) are written into the constitutions. While mechanisms for enforcement still need considerable strengthening, these principles establish a powerful alternative to extractive practices, offering a legal and ethical platform for legislation based on harmony—both with nature, and between humans. In Europe, large-scale thriving cooperatives, such as the Mondragón Cooperative in Spain, demonstrate that it’s possible for companies to prosper without utilizing a shareholder-based profit model. With roughly a hundred businesses and 80,000 worker-...

buen vivir and  sumak kawsay (“good living”) are written into the constitutions. While mechanisms for enforcement still need considerable strengthening, these principles establish a powerful alternative to extractive practices, offering a legal and ethical platform for legislation based on harmony—both with nature, and between humans. In Europe, large-scale thriving cooperatives, such as the Mondragón Cooperative in Spain, demonstrate that it’s possible for companies to prosper without utilizing a shareholder-based profit model. With roughly a hundred businesses and 80,000 worker-...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Ecocide! Ecocide is the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity.   That destruction of “large areas” has grown so conspicuously large, so threatening to all species, including human existence, that a group of international legal experts is working to submit a draft of a new law “Ecocide” to the International Criminal Court (“IC...

Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LIX No 12, New Delhi, March 6, 2021 To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It’s the only way | Jojo Mehta and Julia Jackson Friday 5 March 2021 Outlawing ecocide would hold governments and corporations accountable for environmental negligence. We can’t wait 24 Feb 2021 The Paris agreement is failing. Yet there is new hope for preserving a livable planet: the growing global campaign to criminalize ecocide can address the root causes of the climate crisis and safeguard our planet – the common home of all humanity and, indeed, all life on ...