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Does Mother Nature deserve the same protection as your own mother? Huffington post asks?

Lawmakers in Bolivia think so. The South American country’s leaders are on the brink of passing a revolutionary set of rules that would grant nature equal rights to humans–a first of its kind.

While GOOD call the Law “Amazing”,  The Heritige calls it “absurd”, and grabs the opportunity to critizize its North American counterpart: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to The Heritage : “the EPA does tremendous damage to the private sector in the name of environmentalism. Its clean air powers are a serious burden on small businesses, and its auto regulations add substantially to the sticker price of cars and promote fuels that are more costly, less efficient, and more polluting than gasoline.”

According to The Heritage, the Free Market is the best, and only way to solve environmental problems. So Bolovians with their “absurd” worldview are  now seen as a threat to American Farmers. And not only that they are allied with “bureaucrats’” from the UN and the USA.

Bolivias indigenous population holds the Earth deity Pachamama in special esteem, and considers humans equal to “all other entities.”

Known as the Law of Mother Earth (“Ley de Derechos de La Madre Tierra” in Spanish), the legislation will create 11 distinguished rights for the environment, as The Guardian outlines:

They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.

Ok a new partner for designers. Kate Orff asks us to rethink “landscape”—to use urban greenspaces and blue spaces in fresh ways to mediate between humankind and nature. Check TedTV for this talk  oyster where a new Diplomatic Bioform is presented.

Maybe we should introduce Oysters to the Baltic Sea instead of all this predatory fish that are supposed to eat the “Roskakal” (Trash Fish. ) And thinking of YKON activities there are Oysters around Brioni The fjord Limski Kanal is rich in fish, and high quality oysters and mussels so lets starts building new partnerships.

Interesting communities, that you can actually see without even travelling to the rainforest. As the author of seedmagazine retells his experience with his daughter, you ralize this is something that you can find in a museum nearby?! “The plexiglass-encased exhibit, like many others in museums and zoos around the world, showed all aspects of colony life, from harvesting farming to waste management, and we both spent the better part of an hour watching the remarkable division of labor in this amazing insect’s community.

New (at least for me) discoveries in terms of diplomatic bioforms. Alan Donovan and others in the radioprogram Home Planet http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sdz0, ask questions about our relation to the organisms living inside us. WE ARE A HABITAT! Cool, I am a micronation, the Leviathan, for the organisms living inside me! – Hope you citizens inside me and on my skin, on my eyes… Are happy !?