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Biography

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Thornton founded ClientEarth in 2006. The International Bar Association has called ClientEarth “a public interest law firm, the first in the UK and continental Europe”.[1] Now with offices in London, Brussels, Warsaw, New York and Beijing, it uses advocacy, litigation and research to address the greatest challenges of our time - including biodiversity loss, climate change, air pollution and toxic chemicals. Its work is built on solid law and science. ClientEarth’s patrons are Coldplay, and Brian Eno is a trustee. In 2012 ClientEarth won Business Green’s NGO of the Year[2] award. In 2013, it won the Law Society Gazette's Excellence in Environmental Responsibility Award.[3]

In 2011, ClientEarth’s action[4] in the High Court forced the UK government to admit that it was breaching legal limits for air pollution. In 2012 ClientEarth’s amicus curiae[5] (friends of the court) brief in the cases challenging the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon pollution was the first time that European groups have entered a US environmental case this way. Thornton calls the Common Fisheries Policy 'the worst law in the world'[6] and is working with the Fish Fight campaign of TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to make it workable.[7] He also works to enforce the Aarhus Convention,[8] working to give citizens access to courts in order to seek environmental justice.

Thornton appeared on stage with Brian Eno at the Luminous Festival, Sydney Opera House, in 2009 to discuss the environment.[9] He also featured in the BBC2 Arena documentary of Brian Eno.[10] At this time Thornton wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald[11] on why humanity needs a new renaissance.

Before heading for Europe, Thornton worked for NRDC, for whom he set up the citizens' enforcement project focusing on the Clean Water Act when the Reagan administration dropped its own enforcement.[12] He brought and won sixty cases in the federal courts in six months [13] It was funded by the McIntosh Foundation, which under Mike and Winsome McIntosh became the founding funders of ClientEarth.[14] Attracted to study with the Japanese Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Thornton headed for the NRDC office in San Francisco, from where he founded the LA Office of NRDC. He moved to LA to run it, staying at the Zen Center of Los Angeles.

He did a retreat with the Indian teacher Mother Meera in Germany for 14 months, after which he started Positive Futures, an organization to teach meditation to environmental activists.[15] For some years he was Executive Director of the Heffter Research Institute, which worked on the medical application of hallucinogens [16] among other neuroscience developments. For Theodore Roszak he wrote one of the founding documents for the ecopsychology movement, an early precursor of Wild Law.[17] He was ordained a priest in the Soto Zen order at the Zen Center of Los Angeles in April 2009, by Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao.[18] He wrote A Field Guide to the Soul,[19] a guide to spiritual practice. His first novel Immediate Harm[20] was published in 2011, and his second novel Sphinx the Second Coming[21] came out in 2014.

References

  1. ^ "IBA - Interview with ClientEarth CEO James Thornton". Ibanet.org. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  2. ^ "BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2012: ClientEarth (and Coldplay) stir up trouble in the courtroom". Businessgreen.com. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  3. ^ "Legal Sector Alliance Award for Excellence in Environmental Responsibility". Lawsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  4. ^ "Ministers admit pollution breach". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  5. ^ "Europeans file brief to support US green push - The Lawyer - Legal News and Jobs - Advancing the business of law". Thelawyer.com. 4 September 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  6. ^ 31 January 2011 (2011-01-31). "Focus - Environmental law: Force of nature | Features". The Lawyer. Retrieved 2012-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Tesco, Asda, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Waitrose Misleading Fish Eaters - Kayak, Shore And Boat Fishing | Kayak, Shore And Boat Fishing". Whitbyseaanglers.co.uk. 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  8. ^ Kanter, James (1 March 2010). "U.S. Lawyer Finds Europe Going Astray". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  9. ^ "The Still Point". Abc.net.au. 2012-03-11. James Thornton. Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  10. ^ "James Thornton and Brian Eno discuss ClientEarth on BBC Arena [1011]". Clientearth.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-06-24. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "Our world needs a new renaissance". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  12. ^ John H. Adams, Patricia Adams, George Black, A Force for Nature: The Story of NRDC and Its Fight to Save Our Planet, Chronicle Books, 2010
  13. ^ "CAMPAIGN HERO: James Thornton of ClientEarth". The Ecologist. 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  14. ^ "McIntosh Foundation [172]". Clientearth.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-06-24. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ Lisa Corum Fox. "Zen, Ecology, and the Inner Life". Earthlight.org. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  16. ^ "New LSD Research: Gene Expression within the Mammalian Brain". Maps.org. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  17. ^ "ECOPSYCHOLOGY ON-LINE: James Thornton". Ecopsychology.athabascau.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2012-06-24. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ "Water Wheel : A Beautiful Thing" (PDF). Zencenter.com. May 2010. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  19. ^ James Thornton, A Field Guide to the Soul, Random House / Bell Tower, 2000
  20. ^ "James Thornton - Caffeine Nights Publishing". Caffeine-nights.com. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  21. ^ Cite error: The named reference barbicanpress.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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