Ben Price

Ben G. Price pioneered Rights of Nature legislation in the United States and assisted scores of communities to enact rights-protecting laws. Ben worked closely with the first community on Earth to recognize legal rights for Nature. In 2006, Tamaqua, a quaint borough in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region, challenged so-called "personhood" rights for corporate property by enacting the first law with enforceable rights for ecosystems. Two years later (2008), the people of Ecuador ratified the first national constitution on Earth recognizing Nature's rights, informed and inspired by Tamaqua's example. Since then, more than forty U.S. communities have enacted laws recognizing legal rights for ecosystems. Today, the Rights of Nature Movement is a global phenomenon challenging colonial legal doctrines and striving for the emancipation of the natural world from bondage as property. Price's book "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property" was published in 2019. Ben's novel, "OGDEN: A Tale for the End of Time" tells a tale about how an emissary from the Spirit of Nature arrives in the early days of industrialization, in the form of a young troll, to judge humanity's fitness for survival, or to doom us to extinction.