The Town of Greenwich Sustainability Committee in partnership with the Round Hill Community Church welcomes Maya van Rossum to talk about The Connecticut Environmental Rights Amendment, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 from 12:30 – 2:00pm at Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. Maya van Rossum is the leader and founder of the Green Amendment movement to establish a constitutional mandate recognizing a healthy environment as an inherent, indefeasible, and generational legal right of all citizens in every state.
Maya van Rossum will introduce our audience to the Connecticut Environmental Rights Amendment, the CTERA, that is currently before the CT legislature. The CTERA would enshrine into the state constitution the individual right to clean and healthy air, water, soil, ecosystems and environment; and a safe and stable climate; for the benefit of public health, safety and the general welfare.
“Connecticut is on the leading edge of the national Green Amendment effort and could be the 4th state to put in place an enforceable constitutional right of the people to a clean, safe and healthy environment. I’m looking forward to returning to Connecticut to meet with community members and talk about why this kind of constitutional environmental entitlement can bring essential protections to all the people of the state, including future generations,” says Maya van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations.
In 2014, van Rossum coined the term, “Green Amendment,” and wrote her award winning book, The Green Amendment: The People’s Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment, now in its second edition. She later founded Green Amendments For the Generations, a national organization inspiring Green Amendment efforts in nearly two dozen states, and was a key leader in the effort that resulted in the successful passage of the New York Green Amendment in 2021.
Reverend Ed Hortsmann of Round Hill Community Church will introduce van Rossum.
Q&A and book signing will follow.
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The Round Hill Community Church is located at 395 Round Hill Road in Greenwich.