Announcing Truth and Reckoning on Substack, a project of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We’re launching this Substack newsletter and podcasts as we…
Nebraska soil, Mid-east oil
What if we treated the earth we walk on with the respect it deserves? There is an opportunity to value soil, grow food and support human communities in a way that gives more than it takes. How we respond is up to us. But so long as we remain hooked on fossil fuels, nothing will change.
CELDF Publication – Can You Handle the Truth? E-book and Paperback
Can You Handle the Truth? – Essays of Hard Truths Aimed at Right Relationship with Earth and Each Other Can You Handle the Truth? is…
Press Release: “A Slap in the Face” — Rights of Nature Advocates Silenced at the United Nations
Dozens of activists for the rights of nature who traveled to the United Nations to participate in a high-level meeting were unexpectedly barred from speaking…
Lake Erie is Talking but We Aren’t Listening
Regional environmental leader Tish O’Dell spoke to Cleveland State students about the legal system’s failure to protect nature and the urgent need for cultural change.
Press Release: “A Bright Spot Amidst the Chaos” – From New York to Minnesota, the Rights of Nature are Growing
Today, April 22nd (Earth Day), advocates for the New York bill have been invited to the United Nations to address a high-level meeting on harmony…
Earth Day is Everyday
Join Kai Huschke, CELDF's Executive Director, and an expert panel hosted by Wetlands Initiative to discuss the Rights of Nature in wetlands—why these ecosystems deserve…
Press Release: New Book Reflects on 30 Years of Activism for Community and Nature’s Rights
A new book of essays written by a trailblazer in the Rights of Nature movement tackles the enduring myths behind the environmental crisis.
2024 Year-end Newsletter: Living in Nature
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.
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…
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…
Reckoning with the truth to get in right relationship with the Great Lakes
CELDF and partners hosted Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with the questions of law…
2023 Year-end Newsletter: Living with Nature
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