The Global Environmental Democracy Project prepares students to be advocates for global change by exploring the principles of public participation, freedom of information, and access to the judicial system and how those principles play out when confronting international environmental problems.
Confronting the Other Climate Imperative: An Approach to Sky Cleanup Using Natural Climate Solutions
The Heat is On: Stepping It Up on Climate, Avoiding Congressional Gridlock & Getting It Done Without Delay, A kick-off event for the Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour
Professor Wood's Bedrock Lecture on Atmospheric Recovery Litigation at Oregon State University
Publications
- Mary Wood, Tom Housel, and Douglas Quirke, Pacific Northwest Framework for Atmospheric Recovery, (PNW FAR, forthcoming 2024).
- Mary Wood, Sky Carbon Cleanup and Biodiversity Restoration: Devising Regional Frameworks, 25 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 209 (Spring 2024).
- Mary Wood, Lucas Silva, et. al., A Generalizable Framework for Natural Climate Solutions, Plant and Soil: An International Journal on Plant-Soil Relationships, Springer Nature (2022).
- Mary Wood, Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Cleaning Up the Atmosphere, chapter in Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change (Kathleen Dean Moore, Tom Kern, eds.), Oregon State University Press (2021).
- Mary Wood, Atmospheric Recovery Litigation Around the World: Gaining Natural Resource Damage Awards Against Carbon Majors to Fund a Sky Cleanup for Climate Restoration, chapter in Handbook on Loss and Damage, Edward Elgar (2020)
- Mary Wood, Lucas Silva, et. al., Landscape Carbon Sequestration for Atmospheric Recovery: A Perspective on Convergence to Accelerate Carbon Sequestration, National Science Foundation (2019).
- Mary Wood and Global Environmental Democracy Project Fellows, Atmospheric Recovery and Implementation Plan Funded by Natural Resource Damage Actions Against Fossil Fuel Corporations, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center (2018).
- Mary Wood and Global Environmental Democracy Project Fellows, Atmospheric Energy Imbalance: Threats to Oregon from Planetary Heating, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center (2018).
Faculty
GEDP Fellows 2023-2024
Corinne Gibson - 3L
Corinne grew up in central California and attended four different undergraduate universities before obtaining a B.A. in Anthropology from California State University, Fresno, in 2018. Through her studies in anthropology, Corinne learned about the intersections of culture, natural resources, and agriculture, which sparked her interest in environmental law and sustainability. Before starting at Oregon Law, she worked as a high school teacher, caterer, and ombudsperson. Corinne is passionate about giving back to the community and helping make the legal system more environmentally and socially just.
In her spare time, Corinne loves to garden, cook, do yoga, and take gratuitous pictures of her two cats.
Dana McHenry - 3L
Dana was born in Southern California and grew up between South Texas and Virginia. Her love of the outdoors started with frequent camping and hiking trips in the Blue Ridge mountains and was deepened by annual visits to Oregon. After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in art history, Dana decided to move to Oregon. She began working on farms and eventually became manager of a plant nursery and greenhouse facility in Cottage Grove. Through these jobs, she fell in love with agriculture. During her 1L summer, Dana worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the field office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Last spring, she externed for the Honorable Mustafa T. Kasubhai in the U.S. District Courthouse in Eugene. in the summer, she worked with Cascadia Wildlands, a local environmental advocacy nonprofit. Now a 3L, Dana serves as an Articles Editor for the Oregon Law Review.