Taking care of water helps us take care of climate
Adding a right to clean water to Florida's state constitution could aid climate mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Tag: Florida Rights of Nature Network
Young Floridian aims to save wetlands: Constitutional right to clean water is the way
A right to clean and healthy waters can protect Florida's wetlands when recently weakened federal protections can’t.
Youth climate case is a lesson for Floridians about constitutional environmental rights
Montana has a right to a “clean and healthy environment” as declared in a 1972 amendment to the state's constitution.
Florida needs a constitutional right to clean water to cleanse our polluted waters and protect us from our state legislators
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network I had never seen anything like it when it comes to petition-gathering: ...
New York court case is a potent example of what a clean water amendment could accomplish in Florida
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network Here’s what Floridians need to know about the first lawsuit involving New ...
Nature helps us heal. Are we willing to help heal nature?
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network I live in Cape Coral in Southwest Florida and many residents call ...
Faith communities have significant role in restoring Florida waters
By Joseph Bonasia, Florida Rights of Nature Network “Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God,” ...
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 ...
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 ...