CELDF has been attempting to shift culture and laws by educating residents of communities on how the system isn’t broken, but set up to protect…
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.
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…
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…
Press Release: Ohio River Rights Campaign Launched by Cincinnati Residents
“We began to understand through this process that we are not only connected to the Ohio River, but that we are part of the ecosystem,”…
The Trains Don’t Always Run on Time:
Yet the System Keeps Rolling, and We’re Just Collateral Damage
A more honest report on the East Palestine disaster and details how the system itself is to blame and why these horrific and deadly events…
In Times of Increasing Uncertainty, We Already Have What We Need
We must start trusting in ourselves and in our community members to be able to meet our needs, solve our problems and create truly participatory…
Conservation Today: Kai Huschke and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Kai Huschke, with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, talks to us about the hierarchy of community rights, states rights, and corporate rights.
Tumbled by the surf: Figuring out which wave to ride next for recognizing rights
We must think about our history- the Revolutionaries were proposing an alternative to being a colony of England, abolitionists were fighting for an alternative to…
Grant’s Fight is Our Fight
As we head into the new year, please join us in continuing to stand with Grant Township. And let’s not only support them with words…
Do No Harm: Protecting the Rights of Mangroves in Ecuador From Injury
Mangroves, according to the Ramsar definition, are considered wetlands - an area that CELDF is also helping to evolve coming out of the Declaration of the Rights of…
The rights of nature movement cannot be stopped
By Pamela Haines September 27, 2022 From the Navajo Nation to a small town in Pennsylvania to Ecuador, then across the world, the idea of enshrining…
CELDF’s Proposed Rights of Nature Principles
A new system of law based on respect for Nature and the obligations we share as collaborators with life-supporting ecosystems must be institutionalized, recognizing Nature…
Unveiling Rights of Nature Artwork and Logo
We want to begin this next chapter of the Nature Leads Series by unveiling CELF's beautiful new Rights of Nature artwork and logo designed by…
Press Release: Grant Township Charter Struck Down by Commonwealth Court
While unjust, the ruling from the Commonwealth Court is not unexpected. Courts have routinely ruled against communities and the environment in favor of harmful corporate…
Suggested Reading – English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
This is a landmark decision because it is not only explicit in the language of upholding the Rights of Nature, but it demonstrates what it looks…
We are pleased to announce the program for the upcoming International Society of Public Law 2022 Online ICON•S Conference!
Dismantling the US Property Doctrine in the Name of Planet and People | JULY 5 | 9:15 PM (European Time Zone) CELDF’s Kai Huschke will be presenting…
DAMAGES Podcast: The Backlash
Episode Description In 2019, after a decade-long campaign, voters in Toledo Ohio voted to approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, effectively giving the lake…
Podcast with GrassRoot Ohio: Death by Democracy- Episode 2 – w/ Tish O’Dell
Carolyn Harding with Tish O’Dell, a powerful voice for justice in Ohio, the US, and Globally. Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community…
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