Ecuador and Bolivia granted legal rights to the environment within the past few years. But what are those rights and can they really be enforced?

“The rights of nature laws recognize the rights of ecosystems and natural communities to exist, to flourish, to regenerate, and to evolve,” Mari Margill, associate director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), told Discovery News. CELDF helped Ecuador write the rights of nature into legal reality.

“The rights of nature laws move nature from being considered ‘property’ under the law to being recognized as ‘rights bearing’ under the law,” said Margill.

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Oh yeah! #Friendica #socnet #ddfon

German computer magazine praises Friendica | friendica

"Friendica demonstrates how decentralized social networks can become widely accepted." – German computer magazine c’t…

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#bonjourlesgeeks #geek #geeks #nerd #nerds

So, buddycloud (beta.buddycloud.org) now has topics that can be created to post to, and images/videos are embedding. I wonder where it will go? I must admit, I do like the look of the project. Like a brighter, friendlier twitter/chat something. You can even change your status etc now. though my avatar is still a funny looking gravatar, lol.
It’s still exciting to see these projects grow and develop.
#buddycloud . Does anyone know what the possibility of #federation will be with their particular platform?

Cheeseburger Bird by sherbiemountain on YouTube

What a beautiful morning. Warm sun, crisp air, the smell of damp earth. All around the cheeseburger birds sing their song of…. "cheeeeeze-burger! cheeeeeeeeeeze-burger!" with tiny little voices. (why they wan’t cheezeburgers however, totally stumps me)

I love this picture. Though I don’t look very happy at the time 

My kids saw this and wouldn’t let me navigate away from the page
(found on diasp0ra)