Grant Wilson, Directing Attorney for the Earth Law Center, speaks about the rights of rivers and the processes that individuals and communities engage in to assure basic rights for their rivers.   See the Earth Law Center's Universal Declaration of River Rights.

Grant has advanced environmental campaigns in the United States and worldwide, from representing island nations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to National Land Policy work in Kenya. As Directing Attorney of Earth Law Center, Mr. Wilson works to advance the rights of nature in law, and in particular focuses on ensuring that our rivers thrive. Grant earned a degree in Environmental Policy from Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, and a J.D. with a Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.  

This is the third episode in a series of episodes centered around Rivers of Life. 

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