Category: News and Events

Push to give our natural world the legal right to thrive

by Mornington Peninsula Magazine

When recently elected Deputy Mayor Debra Mar was a Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor, she noticed a rising anxiety in people as she listened to her community, particularly around the impact of development and fragmentation of native

East Gippsland New Economy and Bioregional Governance Events, April 2019, Lake Tyers, Victoria

In April, AELA will be hosting a two day workshop in East Gippsland, focussing on bioregional governance and the GreenPrints project, and we'll also be participating in the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) Regional Symposium in East Gippsland on …

Building Earth Ethics in Australia: Pathways and Challenges, 28-29 November, Melbourne

Join us for a thought-provoking two-day conference that will bring people together from a range of fields - including earth ethics, environmental education, Indigenous knowledge systems, environmental psychology, deep ecology, arts, law, science, business, religion and eco-spirituality - to address …

AELA Earth Arts 2020

Stygofauna Nests - Jude Roberts & Helen Hardess

In 2020, the Earth Arts Collective will be hosting workshops, talks and discussions, and preparing for our biennial Rights of Nature arts exhibitions and events - Voices of Nature 2020. To stay up to date with developments, please sign

Evening Seminar, 16th March 2018, Katoomba – “Exploring Earth Laws”

Exploring Earth Laws: Rights of Nature, Natural Personhood and Innovative Local Laws to Protect the Environment

Evening Seminar, Friday 16th March 2018, 6pm-7.30pm
Katoomba Leura Community Centre, 81-83 Katoomba Street, Katoomba, Blue Mountains

Join us for a fascinating evening of …

Inspiring Earth Ethics Conference, 23-24 November 2017, Brisbane

Everyone’s invited to join us for a thought provoking two day conference in Brisbane, on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th November 2017. This conference will bring together people from a range of fields – including environmental education, ethics, environmental …

New Economy Conference, 1-3 September 2017, Brisbane

AELA is pleased to be working in partnership with more than 100 amazing organisations and individuals, who are working to build a 'new' economy that supports - rather than degrades - people and planet.  AELA sees this work as critical …

Exploring the Legal Status of Nature

Legal practitioners, academics, First Nations Peoples and environmental and animal protection activists and groups in Australia, are invited to join the Australian Centre for the Rights of Nature (ACRN) for a workshop, writing and symposium series during 2017 and 2018.  The …