Landman for the Planet is a platform and resource center for mineral rights owners across the U.S. who know climate change is real and want to have a role in climate justice. When artist Eliza Evans received an unexpected letter from frackers wanting to lease 3 acres of Oklahoma mineral rights she didn’t know she’d inherited, she discovered that saying “no” wasn’t legally possible due to forced pooling laws. Instead of surrendering to extraction companies, she transformed her dilemma into resistance by giving away tiny fractions of her property to thousands of volunteers, creating legal complications that slow drilling. Landman for the Planet emerged from this creative solution, recognizing that mineral rights owners collectively earn $22 billion annually—and even redirecting just 1% toward climate solutions could generate $220 million for environmental justice and frontline communities.
Eliza Evans at #Landman for the Planet Office Hours at @lamamagalleria! “As a #Landman, I’m ready to disrupt the extraction industrial complex. Forget about straws, recycling, and diet—let’s talk about #collectiveabundance! Come and encounter lots of great work and ideas at this show. Don’t miss out!”
A fiscally sponsored project of Arts and Ecology, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Landman for the Planet was founded by artist/activist/mineral rights owner Eliza Evans in 2023 to build on the prior efforts of her All the Way to Hell project that used creative activism to bring attention to climate change and its escalating risks. Her mother’s passing revealed additional inherited mineral rights, deepening her understanding of how ordinary families unknowingly profit from extraction. The organization aims to reach 8-12 million mineral rights owners nationwide as potential members who want their assets to support climate solutions rather than environmental destruction. In addition to coordinating the flow of resources to the climate movement, Landman will become a custodian of mineral rights for owners who prefer to divest entirely of these assets and leave them in the hands of a climate-conscious, rigorous steward. Success comes through pooling resources, creating legal pathways for divestment, and converting scattered individual concerns into coordinated collective action against fossil fuel development.