Maya van Rossum’s talks will educate and empower your audience to better understand today’s most critical environmental challenges.
For details on how Maya can inspire your group or organization, contact her online.
- Constitutional Protection of Environmental Rights
- River Values: The Economic Benefits of Environmental
Protection - Community Activism: Tools for the Toolbox
- Avoiding Adverse Impacts from Development: How To Do It Better
- Fracked Gas Pipelines: Understanding Their Impacts and Strategies to Challenge
- Understanding the Cradle-to-Grave Damage of Drilling and Fracking
- River Friendly Gardens/ Gardening: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Helps
- Stormwater Runoff: Lost Resource or Community Asset
- Defeating Flood Damages in a Sustainable and Meaningful Way
- Benefits of Buffers for Communities, Streams, Flooding, and Local Economies
- Dredging
- Cooling Water Intake Structures
- Species decline including horseshoe crabs, migratory red knots, Atlantic sturgeon
- Artificial turf
She writes persuasively and makes a convincing case. It was inspiring to see that grassroots activity combined with good lawyering can still create change.
Greg Johnson
Professor Vermont Law School
"Maya is a great speaker and was greatly appreciated by our folks. The January 19, 2017, resolution re ELCON — that the Warminster Board of Supervisors passed because of our Progressives’ work — started out mentioning the Pennsylvania constitution’s statement in Article 1, Section 27, the people’s ‘right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of … the environment.’ Maya's work to extend this to the world has already been shown very important.”
Pat Willis
Progressives for Positive Change
"Maya Van Rossum has been a leader in the protection of the environment and the Delaware River for years. Hearing her give a presentation is time well spent. She is a river of knowledge!"
Francis Faunt
Environmental Program Manager (Ret.), Delaware River and Bay Authority
“From her tireless advocacy for the Delaware River watershed and those who love it, Maya van Rossum offers a sobering message: In an era when legislatures and regulatory agencies are hobbled by divisive politics and unable to keep pace with our scientific understanding of threats to public health and the environment, constitutional protection of natural and human communities may be our best hope for survival.”
—Bradley M. Campbell
President of the Conservation Law Foundation, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and former Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
“Read this book and you will be infuriated and inspired. Infuriated because the book drags you through the environmental muck of fracking, pipelines, PFOA .... But you will be inspired by the notion, transformed into a call for a constitutional amendment, that we, the people, have always had more power than we thought.”
A. R. Ingraffea, PhD, PE
Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University
"This is activism 2.0. Important, timely, and passionate, The Green Amendment will revolutionize the way we approach our work to protect the environment."
Greg Vitali
Pennsylvania State Representative, 166th Legislative District
"The Green Amendment asks us to imagine a world in which the right to pure water and healthy air exist on par with due process and free speech—and then shows us how to make it so."
Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Author of Living Downstream and Raising Elijah, recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, and co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking
"If we were writing our Constitution for the first time today, wise leaders would surely insert protections for our environment. Amendments are hard, of course — there’s a lot of corporate power to overcome — but given the stakes, this is surely an idea worth everyone taking very seriously!"
Bill McKibben
Author of Radio Free Vermont
