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Title: The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment

Author: Maya K. van Rossum

Narrator: Maya K. van Rossum

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Disruption Books

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

The constitutional change we need to protect our priceless natural resources.

For decades, activists have relied on federal and state legislation to fight for a cleaner environment. And for decades, theyve been fighting a losing battle. The sad truth is our laws are designed to accommodate pollution rather than prevent it. Its no wonder people feel powerless when it comes to preserving the quality of their water, air, public parks, and special natural spaces.

But there is a solution, argues veteran environmentalist Maya K. van Rossum: Bypass the laws and turn to the ultimate authority - our state and federal constitutions.

In 2013, van Rossum and her team won a watershed legal victory that not only protected Pennsylvania communities from ruthless frackers but affirmed the constitutional right of people in the state to a clean and healthy environment. Following this victory, van Rossum inaugurated the Green Amendment movement, dedicated to empowering every American community to mobilize for constitutional change.

Now, with The Green Amendment, van Rossum lays out an inspiring new agenda for environmental advocacy, one that will finally empower people, level the playing field, and provide real hope for communities everywhere. Listeners will discover:

We all have the right to pure water, clean air, and a healthy environment. Its time to claim that right - for our own sake and that of future generations.

Members Reviews:

Important Book for our Times and the Future Health and Well Being of Earth

This is an extremely important book, written by the courageous van Rossum, a leader in the movement to preserve and protect the health and viability of our earth. In The Green Amendment, she brilliantly intertwines the personal and the political, the practical and the philosophical. I have long admired van Rossum's laser sharp intelligence and eloquent advocacy for the natural world and our right to breath clean air and drink untainted water. This manifesto raises the level of discussion for conservationists and environmentalists throughout the land. Bravo Maya!

Phenomenal

A phenomenal work that brilliantly manages to tread the fine line walked by those in the environmental community: it's both cautious and hopeful; practical and visionary. It speaks clearly and incisively to the power of environmental rights; why the movement to recognize them is needed now more than ever; and how we might actually do it. Thank you Maya for your leadership and your voice.

Yes, the States Need a Green Amendment Now

In the interest of full disclosure, I live in a Delaware River community and we are impacted by a proposed pipeline project that is discussed in this book. I know Maya and interact with her often. While I am unable to be completely objective about Maya herself - she is a force of nature who provides deep and endless energy to the communities she supports and we would be lost without her - as a scientist and science writer I can, in fact, be objective about her book.

The book is really well written and allows the reader a fast paced experience as it winds the legal and environmental issues of over development (or stupid development, or illegal development) through the lives of the people who must deal with it. The stories of those people are described factually, and the book is heavily referenced.