Clean water is fundamental to America’s ‘scheme of ordered liberty’
By Joseph Bonasia, the Florida Rights of Nature Network The whole point of rights is that they are too important...
Clean waters merit the protection only a fundamental right can provide
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network If, in Florida, Mother Nature were a woman, she’d have the telltale...
Please define hysterical, Sen. Rick Scott
By Joseph Bonasia The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report describes just how dire is our climate crisis,...
A Valentine’s card to Florida’s trails and waterways
By Joseph Bonasia I asked the retired professor at the Glover Bight Trail shelter in Southwest Florida why he was...
Florida’s voters should pass the Right to Clean Water Amendment so that they will have the power to protect the environment
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network When I moved to Florida from New York in 2016, I quickly...
Senate bill would undermine a community’s ability to protect its citizens from potentially dangerous industrial activities
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network What if your town were told by an energy company that it...
Conservative Floridians need to tell our U.S. senators that they should support carbon pricing
By Joseph Bonasia, Citizens’ Climate Lobby What are our senators waiting for? The Center for Climate Integrity projects that due...
The market can be our most effective way to repair the Earth’s climate
By Joseph Bonasia, Citizens’ Climate Lobby No Floridian would carry bags of fertilizer underarm and then dump their contents into...
Orange County’s Rights of Nature law is the legal tool other counties need
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network There ought to be a law. This is the case in two...
Voters approve charter amendment and make Florida the epicenter of Rights of Nature in the U.S.
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network On Election Day, a breathtaking 89% of Orange County voters approved the...