First CELDF Ordinance adopted, by the Township Board of Supervisors in Wells Township, Fulton County, which banned corporate farming within the Township.

Orion Magazine runs feature article on CELDF’s work, titled “Consent of the Governed,” by Jeffrey Kaplan.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers a keynote presentation at the Second International BALLE (Business Alliance for Local, Living Economies) in Vancouver, Washington.

CELDF featured on national “Now with Bill Moyers” show, story by David Brancaccio.

CELDF wins first ruling, in the Fulton County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, against a challenge to an anti-corporate farming law adopted in Belfast Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers the Twenty-Fifth Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, titled “Of Corporations, Law, and Democracy: Claiming the Rights of Communities and Nature.”

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivered a keynote presentation at the ACRES USA Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

First CELDF rights-based Ordinance adopted outside of Pennsylvania, in Barnstead, New Hampshire, by a unanimous vote of the Barnstead Board of Selectmen.

First CELDF Ordinance containing rights for nature adopted by Tamaqua Borough, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

CELDF wins case in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in In re: Nomination Papers of James E. Light, qualifying first Pennsylvania home rule charter question containing a Community Bill of Rights, in St. Thomas Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivered a keynote presentation at the 17th Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Mother Jones Magazine runs feature article on CELDF’s work, titled “When is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave,” by Barry Yeoman.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers keynote presentation on “The Rights of Nature” with Cormac Cullinan, a South African lawyer, at Dickinson College and the Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

The 11th Hour – a Leondardo DiCaprio film including CELDF’s work.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, named by Forbes Magazine as one of the U.S.’s “Ten People Who Could Change the World.”

YES! Magazine runs cover story on the work of CELDF in New Hampshire, titled “Communities Take Power.”

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers keynote presentation at the 7th Annual Alliance for Democracy Conference in Tucson, Arizona.

The work of CELDF on recognizing the rights of nature is featured in Orion Magazine’s feature article, “If Nature Had Rights.”

The people of Ecuador ratify a new national Constitution, which recognizes the rights of nature and ecosystems; CELDF provided support to the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly for the drafting of those provisions.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, is interviewed on Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, featured as a top alumni by Widener Law Magazine.

Gibbs Smith Press publishes Be the Change, a CELDF book containing stories from several communities assisted by CELDF.

CELDF wins case against the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Board of Elections, forcing the Board to place a Community Bill of Rights for the residents of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, onto the ballot.

A CELDF representative delivers keynote speech at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

CELDF’s work featured in The Bottom Line or Public Health: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy, and What We Can Do to Counter Them (published by Yale University Press, co-authored by a CELDF representative).

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers keynote speech at the Waterkeeper Alliance’s annual conference in Seattle, Washington.

Pittsburgh first in nation to ban fracking as violation of rights through CELDF-drafted ordinance.

Thomas Linzey participates in panel discussion on history and development of RON, hosted by the Pachamama Alliance in San Francisco, CA.

CELDF wins an appeal in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in a challenge to the placement of a Community Bill of Rights onto the ballot in the City of Warren, Pennsylvania. The victory creates precedent at the appellate level which requires Pennsylvania boards of elections to place local Bills of Rights onto the ballot.

CELDF featured in This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, published by YES! Magazine and Sarah van Gelder.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers a keynote speech at the Earth at Risk Conference in Berkeley, California.

CELDF travels to Nepal to assist Nepalese groups with drafting and introducing rights of nature language into the Nepalese Constitutional Assembly.

CELDF’s Ben Price, Projects Director, participates in a working group at the Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference at the Haskell Indian Nations University. Hosted by the the Indigenous Environmental Network in Lawrence, KS.

J. Stephen Cleghorn, PhD, a Pennsylvania organic farmer, becomes the first landowner in the U.S. to use a conservation easement to recognize and protect the rights of water, forest, and wild ecosystems.

The Nation Magazine carries a feature article on the work of CELDF, “Rebel Towns,” authored by Barry Yeoman.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers keynote speech at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers keynote speech to Earth at Risk Conference in San Francisco, California.

CELDF publishes The People’s Right of Local Community Self-Government: Grant Township v. Pennsylvania General Energy Company, authored by Thomas Linzey, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Elizabeth Dunne.

PM Press publishes CELDF’s “On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability – The Community Rights Movement in the United States.”

First CELDF Ordinance drafted in Canada, in the Yukon Territory.

Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, delivers keynote at the first-in-the nation Rights of Nature conference at Barry and St Thomas University Law Schools.

A CELDF representative presents at the Emancipation Week conference hosted by the Raizal People, struggling for self-determination in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, off the coast of Colombia.