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Important Updates

2024 Year-end Newsletter: Living in Nature

We hope you enjoy the articles, factoids, features, and spotlights of the…

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Order Your Copy Today of CELDF's New Publication - Wouldn't You Say?

The essays in Wouldn’t You Say? ask challenging questions about modern society,…

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CELDF's Proposed Rights of Nature Principles

A new system of law based on respect for Nature and the…

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Issues, News, Resources, Rights of Nature

Events

Check out These Special Events from Our Friends and Partners As Well:

Lake Erie is Talking but We Aren’t Listening

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Lake Erie is Talking but We Aren’t Listening

Regional environmental leader Tish O’Dell spoke to Cleveland State students about the legal system’s failure to protect nature and the urgent need for cultural change.

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Should Rivers & Trees Have Rights?

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Should Rivers & Trees Have Rights?

On May 20, 2024, Rockland Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group and ROAR (Religious Orders Along the River) hosted this conversation titled: SHOULD RIVERS AND TREES…

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CELDF Co-sponsoring Justin Nobel’s Musical Book Tour: Petroleum-238

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CELDF Co-sponsoring Justin Nobel’s Musical Book Tour: Petroleum-238

Book cover design by Sabrina Bedford, cover photo by Julie Dermansky Thursday, May 16 from 2-3:30 pm at moCa Cleveland in Cleveland, OH CELDF and moCa Cleveland…

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Raising Awareness through art – Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve

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Raising Awareness through art – Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve

The “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” art show will be held at The Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and will focus on Rights of Nature and the…

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Reckoning with the truth to get in right relationship with the Great Lakes

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Reckoning with the truth to get in right relationship with the Great Lakes

Law and culture. Culture and law. Which comes first, and how are they related? CELDF and partners hosted Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the…

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Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship

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Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship

On October 16, 2023 CELDF hosted Part 1 of Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship for the Great Lakes, Nature, and each other at the Rock…

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