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We Are In This Together
The Great Lakes hold one-fifth of the world's surface fresh water. They are not a resource. They are a living system, and they have a right to exists and flourish.
That is not a metaphor. It is a legal and moral argument that is gaining ground around the world, and it is the foundation of everything we do.
The Rights of Nature movement recognizes ecosystems as living entities with inherent rights to exist, regenerate, and thrive—independent of their usefulness to capitalism.
We believe the Great Lakes Basin region deserve those rights. And we believe the people who live here, and depend on them for survival, have a responsibility to defend them.
The Great Lakes Basin Initiative works at the intersection of environmental education, water justice organizing, and citizen-led legislative action. In partnership with CELDF—the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund—our parent civic media platform PULSE of the Great Lakes, we support the legal frameworks, community infrastructure, and public education that make Rights of Nature a reality in this region.
More than 40 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on this water. Entire ecosystems, regional economies, and generations of Indigenous peoples are rooted in it. that is not a talking point. That is the stakes.
When you support this work, you help us:
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Build public understanding of the Rights of Nature movement and its legal tools
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Support Indigenous stewardship and treaty-based water defense
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Resist corporate water extraction, pollution, and the political systems that protect it
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Develop and advance citizen-led legislation rooted in justice and self-governance
The water doesn't need our charity. It needs our commitment.
Stand with the Great Lakes Basin region. Defend what defends us.
Learn more about our goal to bring Rights of Nature throughout the Great Lakes Basin region, and get involved by visiting PULSE of the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior, Marquette. Black Rocks. Photo by Taylor Hunt.
