History

Earth Rights was founded in 2001 by Annie Goeke de la Bouillerie and Alanna Hartzok. Annie and Alanna created Earth Rights Institute to support a culture of peace and justice worldwide by establishing dynamic worldwide networks of persons of goodwill and special skill, promoting policies and programs which further democratic rights to common heritage resources, and building ecological communities.


Annie Goeke de la Bouillerie is Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute a noted leader in the Greens and Peace movement worldwide for over a decade including elected positions in the Green Party such as co-chair of the National Steering Committee, International Committee and a delegate for the Global Greens Coordination. She was a co-founder of Lancaster Greens, Green Party of PA and ASGP. Over many years, Annie has been involved as a community activist who has promoted green markets, healthy lifestyles and progressive agendas concerning one's community. Besides her green activity, Annie Goeke co-founded a local chapter Women in Black (international peace organization) and co-designed/taught an educational curriculum for educators on peace building in the classroom. As co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, she has been providing a unique green consultant program in which her principal role is to develop and provide a holistic strategy with sustainable concepts for social enterprises and community development. She is presently working with Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and helping initiate a new international program developing the criteria and certification for sustainable development. In 2002-2004, Annie Goeke participated in the United Nations World Summit in Johannesburg, World Social Forum 2003 in Porto Alegre, UN CSD11 and 12 in NYC, and WTO in Cancun. She is also an author and lived in numerous countries around the world. She is currently finishing work on the introduction of a TV series, a home style program that presents projects on how to live green.


Alanna Hartzok, M.A. is Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute. Her 2001 E.F. Schumacher Lecture was published as Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy. That same year she was a candidate for Congress in the Ninth District of Pennsylvania. In 1993 she initiated tax reform legislation and worked with state Senator Terry Punt and his staff to guide it through Pennsylvania legislative hearings to nearly unanimous passage of Senate Bill 211, signed by Governor Thomas Ridge as Act 108 in November of 1998. Her published articles on tax reform are used by legislators in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. Her articles are referenced in the literature of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) in California, a recent issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Dialogues, a publication of the Canada West Foundation, and in several books, including the Worldwatch Institute book by David Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations and Creating a Sustainable World, an anthology edited by Trent Schroyher and Tom Golodik. She is one of several people featured in Planet Champions: Adventures in Saving the World - New Paths to Peace, Prosperity & Human Rights, authored by Jack Yost. Alanna is currently Director of a 34 member International Advisory Group which is developing a Land Value Tax/Capture Program in association with the United Nations Habitat Global Land Tool Network and the book, The Earth Belongs to Everyone. She is a United Nations ECOSOC NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation based in London and as such is working to develop land value taxation policy trainings worldwide. She is also a psycho-spiritual counselor and maintains a small private practice. Education: California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco Canadian Institute of Psychosynthesis, Montreal Institute of European Studies, Vienna M. A., University of West Georgia B. A., Ohio Wesleyan University