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…
2-PART TRAINING: People’s Assemblies and The Revolutionary Potential of Grassroots Power
Join us for a free two-part training on September 30th and October 6th to learn from two experts on people's assemblies: Dr. Camila Vergara, an academic and organizer who was deeply involved in numerous assemblies held in Chile between 2020 and 2022 as part of the effort to enact a transformative new constitutional structure, and Denzel Caldwell, an organizer with the Black Nashville Assembly working to build black political power in Tennessee.
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…
Press Release: International Rights of Nature Tribunal rules impacts caused by current forestry model as ecocide
Biobío, Concepción, Chile – The International Rights of Nature Tribunal held its 11th Local Tribunal in the Biobío region in Chile on Friday, January 12, focusing…
Unmuting Rights of Nature
"In our history, humans were owned at one point. That is the position Nature is currently in."
Local Governments Are Blocking Ballot Initiatives at the Behest of Corporations
In truth our government is like a three-ring circus — one that makes a mockery of democracy. This article is written by CELDF's Kai Huschke,…
A Pennsylvania Community Wins a Reprieve on Toxic Fracking Wastewater
But trying to stop the harm in the first place would be a way of making sure local rights don’t get trampled by industry and…
Group announces PGE to plug controversial well
According to the CELDF, “not a single drop of frack waste has been injected within the township due to hard work, resistance and resilience.”
Waste well to be plugged in Grant Township
Toxic frack-waste injection well to be plugged in Grant Township.
When We Became Trees – A Short Story by Blake Lavia
"When we became trees, we left behind I and we became We."
East Palestine: “We Basically Nuked a Town with Chemicals So We Could Get a Railroad Open”
We can’t turn back time, but we can change this disastrous system so no company can harm communities in this way ever again.
LEBOR like bill in New York seeks Rights of Nature for Great Lakes
New York State Assemblyman Patrick Burke, a 37-year-old Democrat from the Buffalo area, has introduced legislation “that will create a Great Lakes Bill of Rights…
Glen’s Parallax Perspectives – Interview with Kai Huschke
Glen Anderson interviewed two experts — Kai Huschke and Elliott Moffett — who have savvy insights and practical experience working to protect environments and establish…
Portrait of a water guardian – WT Interview with Tish O’Dell
What is the force that propels a woman forward in taking a courageous stand for water and the environment water creates? Here is what Tish…
Suggested Reading – One-Block Revolution
CELDF’s Kai Huschke was centrally involved in the first-in-the-nation Community Bill of Rights and Worker Bill of Rights. His chapter for the new book One-Block…
Suggested Reading – The Politics of Rights of Nature
How Rights of Nature laws are transforming governance to address environmental crises through more ecologically sustainable approaches to development.
Corporation Asks Nottingham, N.H. For Legal Fees After Suing Over Climate Ordinance
The Freedom From Chemical Trespass Rights-Based Ordinance asserted residents’ rights to a healthy climate and banned corporate activities that would interfere with those rights, punishable…
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