THE PUBLIC TRUST ALLIANCE
A Project of the Resource Renewal Institute
The air we breathe, the water we drink and even the news we rely on to govern our communities are not private objects. In fact, our laws protect them as much too valuable to us as people to allow them to be expropriated as the private property of others
Even while we have to use them today, we have to make sure that some especially valuable things will be there for future generations.
From the beginning of western civilization, we have had a legal tradition called the public trust doctrine.
We defend public rights protected by this legal framework and use its adaptive features to help our socity be more responsible resource stewads and help all of us think more clearly about the long term impacts of our everyday activities.
We encourage more ecologically sustainable and socially just practices through educational and advocacy activities.