2024 Year-end Newsletter: Living in Nature
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A new system of law based on respect for Nature and the…
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Jul 9, 2017
Recognizing the rights of nature is a strategy leveraged by communities in partnership with CELDF across the U.S. to protect themselves from fracking harms. The strategy crosses traditional conservative/liberal demarcations.
Read More | News from the Grassroots, Success StoryOct 19, 2016
Former Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields, featured in We the People 2.0, refuses to fold to the oil and gas industry, standing his ground to protect the City he loves.
Read More | UncategorizedJan 10, 2011
Plain Township, Canton and other public officials currently face a direct human and environmental assault on their communities over “fracking” — vertical and horizontal gas drilling.
Read More | UncategorizedJan 4, 2011
Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields headlines our “Best of 2010” interviews on Democracy Matters
Read More | UncategorizedDec 29, 2010
Marcellus Shale Awareness Group to meet Jan. 5
Read More | UncategorizedNov 18, 2010
Pittsburgh is the first major U.S. city to adopt a rights-based ordinance that includes the legal rights for nature.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 16, 2010
Today, the Pittsburgh City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance banning corporations from conducting shale gas drilling in the city.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & Blogs, Success StoryOct 10, 2010
Oct 3, 2010