In this conversation, host, Max Goller, and Secular Saint, Ben Price, discuss the evolution of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and its mission…
Substack: My Life Un-Learning
How do YOU keep healthy in a toxic world? How do you deal with rules and regulations that prohibit local authority? What do you consider…
Suggested Reading: The Red Shoes
It is time we collectively take a giant step back, start making conscious choices about our technology use, and remove the red shoes before it…
Suggested Reading: Bright Green Lies How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the…
Suggested Reading: Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History & Strategy
This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp…
Suggested Reading: Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic
Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect…
Suggested Reading: As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches…
Suggested Reading: Who Gets to be Indian?
In Who Gets to Be Indian?, scholar and writer Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) explores how ethnic fraud and the commodification of Indianness has resulted in mass…
Suggested Reading: How to Survive – Practicing Care in a Changing Climate
It’s not just a book; it’s a collective invitation to reclaim our future through collaboration and care.
Finger Lakes Times: Rights of nature/Rights of water
What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of legal rights that would criminalize actions that make our water and resources toxic?
Press Release: Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights Qualifies for May 2026 Ballot
Lane County’s watersheds provide drinking water, irrigation for farms, and habitat for fish and wildlife. Yet these waterways face increasing threats from pollution, overuse, and…
Suggested Reading: Climate Mobilities
The final chapter, “Exist, Flourish, Evolve,” brings together CELDF’s Tish O’Dell with artist Andrea Bowers and curator Megan Reich to reflect on what it means…
ZNet Articles: Capitalism’s Missing Persons – Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
Disappearing the Homeless, Immigrants, Native and Rural Communities, To Complete the Enclosure of the Commons
CounterPunch: Moving Beyond Protest
July 22, 2025 by Kai Huschke Protests over the last 6 years The sheer number of protests in the first six months of 2025 resulting…
Counter Punch: CELDF and the Rights of Nature
There is a critical need for a movement to recognize nature as a legal entity with rights. Just as human rights are enshrined in law…
Rolling Stone: The Environment Is Under Attack. The Rights of Nature Movement Can Save It
Grant Township’s 2014 Rights of Nature law became the first such piece of legislation to be enforced by a state, with the Pennsylvania Department of…
Salon: Take back the night – Establishing a “right to darkness” could save our night skies
Voluntary standards for light pollution, like voluntary standards for much else where profit and community or ecosystem well-being might be at odds, have a habit…
Interview on the Great Lakes and NY State Waters Bill of Rights: Does Nature Have Rights?
This interview was conducted by the Environmental Coffeehouse welcoming Ben Price, CELDF Education Director & Tish O’Dell, Consulting Director of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund…
Project Censored: Conversations on Environmental Justice, Abolition, and the Future We Build
In the first part of the program, author and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s education director Ben Price joins the program to talk about his…
Common Dreams: New Bill to Recognize Legal Rights of All Water Bodies in New York State
“Great Lakes and State Waters Bill of Rights” introduced in New York State Assembly BUFFALO – What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of…
The Great Salt Lake is Disappearing… So Utah Bans Rights of Nature.
The Great Salt Lake. Image by Erin Testone. A growing number of American jurisdictions are outlawing Right of Nature as we embark on the greatest…
No more results.
