As a practicing attorney in New Jersey and New York since 1991, Warren’s legal career has focused on traditional environmental law. In 2024, he started developing an ecocentric legal practice after attending the Earth Law Center fellowship program in Durango, Colorado. His projects during and immediately following the fellowship ranged from drafting a municipal Rights of Nature ordinance to protect the Uncompahgre River in Colorado, to working with an Alaskan Native Corporation on a treaty to recognize their spiritual connection to the Octopus.
Warren strongly believes in the power of the global Rights of Nature (RoN) movement to accelerate Joanna Macy’s “Great Turning” (see reading list) in this Ecological Revolution, and is actively pursuing a RoN law covering the entirety of his home state of New Jersey, while concurrently working to organize teams to draft and pass RoN laws in other states. He would welcome discussions with a foundation to back this project and take it global.
As an earth scientist and attorney, his current must reads for non-fiction include: 1) Becoming Earth (2024), How Our Planet Came to Life, by Ferris Jabr, 2) An Immense World (2022), How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong, 3) More Everything Forever (2025), AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, by Adam Becker, 4) Active Hope (2012), How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy, by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, and 5) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013), by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
