We hope you enjoy the articles, factoids, features, and spotlights of the people who make CELDF the powerhouse that it is through our 2024 End-of-Year Newsletter.
New! “Common Sense” Monthly Newsletter – December 2025: A Personal Message from Kai Huschke
CELDF's new monthly newsletter, Common Sense, Collective Action for Right Relationship is here! Our monthly newsletters will include a more personal message and the great Truth + Reckoning podcast content we and our partners produce. If you are not on our email list, join so you don't miss out!
CELDF’s 2024 “Vote for the People!” Update Report
Summer is fading away. School is back in full swing. Electoral politics are in full volume. And, 2024 is fast approaching its end. CELDF’s 2024 “Vote…
Part 2 Series – Right Relationship
This powerful two-day gathering not only reflects and grounds us in the truths revealed during Part 1 but then expands further to gain a better…
CELDF Publication: Wouldn’t You Say?
The essays in Wouldn’t You Say? ask challenging questions about modern society, our relationship to each other, and to the natural world. Order Your Copy…
Part 1 Series – Truth & Reckoning
CELDF and partners hosted Part 1 - Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with these…
CELDF Response to “Can granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature stem biodiversity loss?” by Viktoria Kahui
The prospect of liability introduced by conferral of personhood status monetizes the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.
Should Rivers & Trees Have Rights?
On May 20, 2024, Rockland Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group and ROAR (Religious Orders Along the River) hosted this conversation titled: SHOULD RIVERS AND TREES…
Press Release: Amicus Brief in support of Athens Plastic Bag Ban
Feature photo by Brian Yurasits Contact: Tish O’Dell tish@celdf.org 440-552-6774 Terry Lodge, Attorney CELDF tjlodge50@yahoo.com 419-205-7084 Athens Local Businesses Support Rights of Nature and the…
CELDF Co-sponsoring Justin Nobel’s Musical Book Tour: Petroleum-238
CELDF and moCa Cleveland invite you to this Cleveland stop on author and journalist Justin Nobel’s Book Tour of his just-published book Petroleum-238 on the…
Raising Awareness Through Film: “What We Do to Nature, We Do to Ourselves”
Artist, Andrea Bowers, brought us the “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” art show on Rights of Nature & the Great Lakes and also offers this documentary film,…
AM I AN ACTIVIST?
Testimony of a Community Organizer CELDF’s Consulting Director, Tish O’Dell, submitted her testimony, “Am I an Activist?” to the 2024 Spring Activism Peace Chronicle publication.…
Press Release: Changing Culture, Changing Law through Art – Andrea Bowers and CELDF: Exist, Flourish, Evolve
Developed through an ongoing partnership with CELDF Exist, Flourish, Evolve is a new, multi-site, multimedia campaign that builds awareness and action around the dangers facing…
Raising Awareness through art – Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve
The "Exist, Flourish, Evolve" art show will be held at The Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and will focus on Rights of Nature and the…
2023 Year-end Newsletter: Living with Nature
FREE Gifts with tax-deductible year-end donations of $100 or more.
Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship
On October 16, 2023 CELDF hosted Part 1 of Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship for the Great Lakes, Nature, and each other at the Rock…
How Wealth Rules Book Serialization
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is making available this serialization of Ben Price’s book. Read this award-winning book in free installments of downloadable…
15 Questions that Are More Useful than “What New Regulation Should We Fight For?”
Difficult as it may be, we’d all be better off focusing on how to change the legal system itself instead of pleading for stricter regulations.
Press Release: Free Speech Advocate Moves to Lift Gag Order Regarding Radioactive Brine Used on Roadways
“SLAPP suits are just another tool used by industry and corporations to silence and intimidate those who speak out against them and their activities,” stated…
Radical Resilience and Restoration for Wetland Rights
On June 28th CELDF's Kai Huschke will be presenting at the Society for Wetland Scientists annual conference.
Press Release: Unrepentant and Vindicated: Proposed Frack-Waste Injection Well in Grant Township to be Plugged and Abandoned
To date, not a single drop of frack waste has been injected within the Township due to hard work, resistance, and resilience.
Got Community Resistance?
Dean Barlese, an elder of the Pyramid Lake Paiute-Shoshone, who told us “We've got to stand up for our ancestors, they gave their lives, they…
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