Today, the Ohio House adopts provisions to block communities and local governments from enforcing recognized legal rights for ecosystems.

“This idea of a real human right to survive in the 21st century … was born – through the determination and commitment of the people who live [in Denver].”

As a judge denies Toledoans and Lake Erie intervention to defend the Lake Erie Bill of Rights against an agribusiness lawsuit to overturn it, community members file an appeal.

Check out this interview as Thom Hartmann talks with CELDF’s Ben Price on his upcoming book, How Wealth Rules the World: Saving our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property.

Community members in North Union Township, Pennsylvania, engage with CELDF and its partner Network to discuss using Community Rights to protect their water from being siphoned off.

Oil corporations were forced to back off native lands in Ecuador. A court decision held that their actions were “inadequate and violated the ‘community’s right to self-determination.'”

Join Washington residents to learn more about Rights of Nature as a paradigm shift and a pathway to protecting our communities where conventional environmental laws have failed.

Community Rights leader Markie Miller, from Toledo, Ohio, speaks to the UN General Assembly. She was invited to talk about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, an historic law adopted by Toledoans in February.

Earth Day celebrations span the globe, highlighting Earth’s beauty and the threat of climate change devastation. Rights of Nature is a growing movement to stop climate change and other harms.

The oil and gas industry tried to quash the Lake Erie Bill of Rights at the ballot. The agriculture industry is trying to quash it in court. CELDF is crowdfunding as we represent Lake Erie and Toledo community members to protect the Lake’s rights.