Nice! He must be working with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
­ celdf.org. This is the group that is headed up by Thomas Linzey (speaker
at two past Bioneers conferences). They have worked a lot in Pennsylvania,
and this strategy is right out of CELDF's Democracy School, which I took
last year.

Like Cleghorn says, this is a complete paradigm shift. Anyone who is
interested in learning more about this can check out the CELDF website.

Also, here is a link to a presentation that Thomas Linzey made at Maharishi
University of Management in September - "The Rights of Nature ­ Making
Sustainability Legal." It'a about an hour long, but it gives an overview of
the strategy of the Democracy School.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQAm-uoOsmM

Personally, I think that using this strategy is the only way we will stand
up to corporations and reclaim true democracy. It's a long-term strategy,
but you have to start somewhere.

Diane Rosenberg

From:  Debbie Neustadt <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:  <[log in to unmask]>
Date:  Wednesday, December 4, 2013 7:45 AM
To:  <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:  Re: Interesting way for farmers to protect their land from
fracking

I would think that subsurface is like mineral rights. My grandfather sold
rights to store natural gas under his property. Even though he sold the
surface, I get an inheritance on the mineral rights. Enough to have a very
fancy dinner once a year; a fine way to remember my grandfather.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Buell
> Sent: Dec 4, 2013 7:10 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Interesting way for farmers to protect their land from fracking
> 
> A conservation easement affects subsurface rights owned by others?  I guess I
> don't understand.  There are lots of conservation easements in Iowa.  But we
> don't usually care much about subsurface separate ownership, at least out here
> in NW Iowa.  
> 
> Donna Buell
> 
> --Sent from my iPhone
> .
> 
> 
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Nicole Cook <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not familiar with this - farmers using Rights of Nature easements on
>> farmland.  Is anyone in Iowa pursuing this?
>> 
>> http://onthecommons.org/magazine/how-one-farmer-protects-his-land-fracking
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