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*** Schedule is subject to change. Please bookmark this webpage for updates. ***

Presentations are recorded for our media partnership with Free Speech TV and include special guests  (as of Sept 13, 2021) include:

• 9:45 Mobilized Team: Welcome to the Future:
• 10 AM ET: James Arbib, Rethink X: Decentralization and Technology to the Rescue;
• 11 AM ET: Michael Wadleigh, Director of The Motion Picture,  “Woodstock”: Population and Consumption Matters;
• 12 Noon ET: TBC
• 1 PM ET: Thomas Linzey, Environmental justice attorney on enacting Rights of Nature Laws in your locale;
• 2 PM ET:Chuck O’Neil from the Florida Rights of Nature Network on How Florida Community leaders are taking actual, conscientious actions;
• 3 PM ET: Dr. Rob Moir, Ocean River Institute: Taking actions in your own backyard makes the difference
• 4 PM ET Howard Bloom, Superstar publicist (Amnesty International, Prince, John Mellencamp, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, hundreds of others time-tested real effective marketing and branding and messaging.

Hosted and Sponsored by the Team at Mobilized.news, the structure of the Environmental Summit features; first, a one-on-one interview with the guest by Mobilized host, Jeff Van Treese followed by 25 minutes of Q&A.

The Environmental Summit features a combination of live and archived presentations. Once the media event is over, we will continue with additionally highly productive media events every Saturday at 12 Noon Eastern (USA/Canada,) 6 pm Central European / Central African Time. We call these media events “Mobilized Exchanges.”

Press Release: An International group of academics, scientists, media makers, and earth-shakers unites for global commons for personal/planetary health and well-being.

On Sept 30, a diverse group of scientists and social activists, environmentalists and ecologists, policymakers and producers, media makers in earth-shakers will Unite for the Mobilized Environmental media Summit, a local to Global idea-into- action experiential media event which puts you in the driver’s seat, provides a realistic Outlook and how we the people and bring back the health and well-being of public and planet to equilibrium.

We will bring together people from the worlds of soil science, environmental justice, and technology disruption pioneers to indicate what we can all do to improve the health and well-being of all life.

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Unlike most conferences and expositions, this is not an argument clinic, and we will not be talking mumbo-jumbo while kicking the can further down the road. Instead, based on fact, not fiction, the conversations will indicate what we can all do to improve the quality of life and the health of our planet, starting now and not waiting 30 or 40 years for someone else to take action. The Mobilized Environmental Summit is recorded for Television Broadcast for our Broadcast partner, Free Speech TV. It is promoted by numerous ecological and environmental groups and organizations, including the Florida Democratic Environmental Caucus, of which the series host, Jeff Van Treese, is the communications director.

For decades, many of us warned the public and the media. Yet, while our voices were ignored, we are currently seeing the consequences of failed policy, systems, and public services.

But there is good news:

Despite the onslaught of bad news every day, there is much that we can do and much coming down the pike that will prove the planet’s quality of life and health. Conversations from eliminating subsidies for fossil fuels to how we could take our actions in our backyards, this event is dedicated to Main Street, not Wall Street.

“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

Schedule is subject to change. Please bookmark this webpage for updates.

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What you will learn and receive

• An understanding of how people in communities around the United States and around the world have risen to the occasion to protect the rights of nature in their own backyards
• Alternative methods of preventing climate change in your communities
• A better understanding of how our actions create systematic problems
• How a holistic perspective changes the outcome
• Non licensable legal actions that you can take that you don’t need to ask permission to take
• How an engaged group of individuals has come to the aid of their communities
• A better understanding of desertification and how solving that problem can be good for the planet
• The Understanding of perfect timing and the types of messaging that work
• The importance of soul in your marketing messages
• The need for solutions journalism in your community

The Benefits you will secure:

• You will have a better and more comprehensive understanding of what is happening at the national and multinational level
• You will have a better understanding of what people are doing at the community level
• You will have a better understanding of what you can do wherever you are in the world
• You will have a better understanding of how you can amplify the wisdom you have secured so that more people can take part and take action

We are grateful to all presenters and show hosts. If you are interested in participating or hosting one of our media summits, please contact us here

Humanity stands at the brink of global environmental collapse. Our environmental protection laws more often protect the very corporations that they are supposed to regulate, rather than our rivers, forests, mountains, and other ecosystems.

A global movement is starting to change that. Using indigenous value systems to create legally enforceable rights for nature, cities, towns, and counties across the United States are creating laws which recognize the rights of nature.

This session will include a segment on how to design and adopt “rights of nature” laws in your own community.

But right now, people within the community rights movement aren’t waiting for power brokers to fix the system. They’re beginning to envision a new sustainability constitution by adopting new laws at the local level that are forcing those ideas upward into the state and national ones. In doing so, they are directly challenging the basic operating system of this country—one which currently elevates corporate “rights” above the rights of people, nature, and their communities—and changing it into one which recognizes a right to local, community self-government that cannot be overridden by corporations, or by governments wielded by corporate interests.

Click here to sign up

What you will learn and receive

• An understanding of how people in communities around the United States and around the world have risen to the occasion to protect the rights of nature in their own backyards
• Alternative methods of preventing climate change in your communities
• A better understanding of how our actions create systematic problems
• How a holistic perspective changes the outcome
• Non licenesable legal actions that you can take that you don’t need to ask permission to take
• How an engaged group of individuals has come to the aid of their communities
• A better understanding of desertification and how solving that problem can be good for the planet
• The Understanding of perfect timing and the types of messaging that work
• The importance of soul in your marketing messages
• The need for solutions journalism in your community

The Benefits you will secure:

• You will have a better and more comprehensive understanding of what is happening at the national and multinational level
• You will have a better understanding of what people are doing at the community level
• You will have a better understanding of what you can do wherever you are in the world
• You will have a better understanding of how you can amplify the wisdom you have secured so that more people can take part and take action

We are grateful to all presenters and show hosts. If you are interested in participating or hosting one of our media summits, please contact us here

From the Mobilized Archives:

• Sir Richard Branson and Allan Zavod: An Environmental Symphony
• Ed Begley, Jr.
• Winona La Duke
• Vandana Shiva
• Kristin Lawless, Author, “Formerly Known as Food”
• Sarah Savory, The African Center for Holistic Management
• Dr. Michael Ozner, “The Miami Mediterranean Diet”
• Nickson Otieno, Niko Green, Nairobi, Kenya
• Dr. Elaine Ingham, PhD. Soil Web School
• David Korten
• Helena Norberg-Hodge
• Noam Chomsky
• Evlelyn Zadjenwerg, Paulo Rodriguez and Matheus Mendonca, social Activists, Brazil
• Sara Vicari, Around the World.coop, Rome, Italy
• Jinan Kodapully, EK Foundation, India

Chuck O’Neal, You may have read about his campaign in the Guardian. And you may have heard about him from one of your friends or colleagues.

“Our waterways and the wildlife they support have been systematically destroyed by poorly planned suburban sprawl. They have suffered in silence and without representation, until now.”

A network of streams, lakes and marshes in Florida is suing a developer and the state to try to stop a housing development from destroying them.

The novel lawsuit was filed on Monday in Orange county on behalf of the waterways under a “rights of nature” law passed in November. It is the largest US municipality to adopt such a law to date.

Laws protecting the rights of nature are growing throughout the world, from Ecuador to Uganda, and have been upheld in courts in India, Colombia and Bangladesh. But this is the first time anyone has tried to enforce them in the US.

The Orange county law secures the rights of its waterways to exist, to flow, to be protected against pollution and to maintain a healthy ecosystem. It also recognizes the authority of citizens to file enforcement actions on their behalf.

Thomas Linzey serves as Senior Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), an organization committed to globally advancing environmental rights. He is the co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), and is widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary “community rights” movement which has resulted in the adoption of several hundred municipal laws across the United States. He also sits on the Board of Advisors of the New Earth Foundation.

Linzey is a cum laude graduate of Widener Law School and a three-time recipient of the law school’s public interest law award. He has been a finalist for the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award, and is a recipient of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union’s Golden Triangle Legislative Award. He is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, and he is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania.

He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School – which has been taught in twenty-four states across the country and which has graduated over 5,000 lawyers, activists, and municipal officials – which assists groups to create new community campaigns which elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations. Linzey is the author of Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community (Gibbs-Smith 2009), the author of On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability (PM Press 2016), the co-author of We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States (PM Press 2016), has served as a co-host of Democracy Matters, a public affairs radio show broadcast from KYRS in Spokane, Washington and syndicated on ten other stations, was featured in Leonardo DiCaprio and Tree Media’s film 11th Hour and We the People 2.0 (Official Selection of the Seattle International Film Festival), assisted the Ecuadorian constitutional assembly in 2008 to adopt the world’s first constitution recognizing the independently enforceable rights of ecosystems, and is a frequent lecturer at conferences across the country.

His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, the Nation magazine, he was named, in 2007, as one of Forbes’ magazines’ “Top Ten Revolutionaries,” and, in 2018, Linzey was named as one of the top 400 environmentalists of the last 200 years in the two volume encyclopedia, American Environmental Leaders (3rd Ed. Grey House Publishing 2018). He is currently working on a new book, “Modern American Democracy (and other fairy tales)” (forthcoming Spring, 2021). Linzey currently resides in Spokane, Washington.

Rob Moir, Ph.D., President and Executive Director, Ocean River Institute

Dr. Moir is an educator, scientist, and activist with a proven history of institutional management and marine policy success. Dr. Moir has been a leader of citizen science and efforts to clean up Salem Sound and Boston Harbor, as president of the advocacy organizations Salem Sound Harbor Monitors, Salem Sound 2000 and later Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, and through his appointment by the Secretary of Interior to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership.

When he was Curator of Natural History at the Peabody Essex Museum, he created the first bioregional management collaborative organization, Salem Sound Coastwatch in 1988. Dr. Moir established The James Baldwin Scholars Program at Hampshire College where he worked as a major gifts officer. He was formerly Curator of Education at the New England Aquarium and Executive Director of the Discovery Museums in Acton, Massachusetts.

Dr. Moir was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship from the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation, and the James Centorino Award for Distinguished Performance in Marine Education by the National Marine Educators Association, which he also served as president. He was Sea Education Association’s first assistant scientist contracted for multiple voyages of the R.V. Westward in 1979 and 1980 W45, W49, W50, W52, and W53, and served on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Cambridge School of Weston.

Dr. Moir has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, a Masters of Science and Teaching from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire. a B.A. from Hampshire College, and certificates of studies from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island.

Howard Bloom is the celebrated author of “The Global Brain,” “The Lucifer Principle” and many other books and was instrumental in helping the original SPIN Magazine find its soul. As the founder of the Howard Bloom Organization,the long-time considered public relations firm where artists and record companies would go to achieve higher media status, Howard Bloom was able to tap into the heart and soul of clients such as Prince, Billy Joel, John Mellencamp, Amnesty International and hundreds of others by empowering the artists he represented to realize their true potential, by enabling journalists to understand the artists’ truth, the stories that enabled them to “bleed their souls” in the music that would eventually touch and move their audiences of millions.