A report from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities,” synthesizing a conference. Available as a PDF or as a print copy from the Publication Series Order List. An article about the conference appears in the Spring 2008 issue of the Journal of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Environment Yale.

Papers presented at the Wild Law Conference 2006: "Changing Environmental Law to Meet Global Challenges" based on the book Wild Law by
Cormac Cullinan, and organized by the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association and the Environmental Law Foundation in association with the University of Brighton

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• Cormac Cullinan, "Sowing wild law"
• Norman Baker, MP, "Rebalancing the system: an agenda for change"
• Satish Kumar, "Economics and ecology – which comes first?"
• Elizabeth Rivers, "Creative regulation: how wild law can rehabitilate governance and regulation"
• Ian Mason, "Earth, rights and insects: a holistic approach to environmental law"

These articles originally appeared in Environmental Law & Management (2007) 19: 59-92,
published by Lawtext Publishing, Ltd., and are used here with permission

Additional Papers from the Wild Law Conference:

• Constitution of the State of Sabah (Malaysia)
• Cormac Cullinan, "Getting Real About Climate Change"
• Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons (UK), Press Release (25 July 2007): "Case Study - Are Biofuels Sustainable?"
• Brian Goodwin, "The Great Work of Transformation"
• Andrew Kimbrell, "Halting the Global Meltdown: Can Environmental Law play a
  Role?"
• Peter Roderick, "Climate Change in the Courts: Summary of Cases"

"As the natural world diminishes in its splendor, so human life diminishes in its fulfillment of both the physical and the spiritual aspects of our being. This is the case not only with humans but also with every mode of being. The well-being of each member of the Earth community is dependent on the well-being of the Earth itself.

Within this context, then, I make the... set of proposals expressed in terms of rights that should be recognized in national constitutions and in courts of law. Whether simply from consideration of survival and the well-being of humans or from concern for the larger destiny of the Earth, we are faced with legal issues that can no longer be avoided."

- Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts