CELDF and its partner Community Rights Lane County are not only resisting these violent assaults, we are attempting to flip the script all together. Read…
20th Anniversary of 1st Rights of Nature Law
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rights of Nature in Tamaqua, CELDF is sharing an interview with Cathy Miorelli and CELDF’s Education Director Ben Price as the two recall some of the events and impacts that led to the historic ordinance adoption in 2006.
“Living As Nature” 2025 Year-end Newsletter
Living As Nature is Alive! - Support CELDF in 2025 See what we've brought together for you in the CELDF's Living As Nature 2025 Newsletter.
CELDF’s Max Wilbert on Scientists Rebellion
Don’t miss CELDF’S Max Wilbert presentation hosted by Scientists Rebellion. His talk, titled “Technological Somnambulism and the Failure of the Scientific Imagination,” explores how academic…
Suggested Reading – The Red Shoes: Our Devil’s Dance with Technology and How We Can Stop it
It is time we collectively take a giant step back, start making conscious choices about our technology use, and remove the red shoes before it…
NY Rights of Nature and Local Self-Governance Workshop – August 14, 2025
Our goal is to assist others in NY educate their community about the bill and also to inform residents of other states as they contemplate…
CELDF now on Substack: Truth + Reckoning
Announcing Truth and Reckoning on Substack, a project of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). We’re launching this Substack newsletter and podcasts as we…
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.
Earth Day is Everyday
Join Kai Huschke, CELDF's Executive Director, and an expert panel hosted by Wetlands Initiative to discuss the Rights of Nature in wetlands—why these ecosystems deserve…
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…
Press Release: New Book Reflects on 30 Years of Activism for Community and Nature’s Rights
A new book of essays written by a trailblazer in the Rights of Nature movement tackles the enduring myths behind the environmental crisis.
Part 2 Series – Right Relationship
This powerful two-day gathering not only reflects and grounds us in the truths revealed during Part 1 but then expands further to gain a better…
Part 1 Series – Truth & Reckoning
CELDF and partners hosted Part 1 - Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with these…
Raising Awareness Through Film: “What We Do to Nature, We Do to Ourselves”
Artist, Andrea Bowers, brought us the “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” art show on Rights of Nature & the Great Lakes and also offers this documentary film,…
Reckoning with the truth to get in right relationship with the Great Lakes
CELDF and partners hosted Truth, Reckoning, and Right Relationship with the Great Lakes in the fall of 2023 to wrestle with the questions of law…
Truth, Reckoning & Right Relationship
CELDF has been attempting to shift culture and laws by educating residents of communities on how the system isn’t broken, but set up to protect…
How Wealth Rules Book Serialization
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is making available this serialization of Ben Price’s book. Read this award-winning book in free installments of downloadable…
Conservation Today: Kai Huschke and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Kai Huschke, with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, talks to us about the hierarchy of community rights, states rights, and corporate rights.
Suggested Reading – English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
This is a landmark decision because it is not only explicit in the language of upholding the Rights of Nature, but it demonstrates what it looks…
DAMAGES Podcast: The Backlash
Episode Description In 2019, after a decade-long campaign, voters in Toledo Ohio voted to approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, effectively giving the lake…
Podcast with GrassRoot Ohio: Death by Democracy- Episode 2 – w/ Tish O’Dell
Carolyn Harding with Tish O’Dell, a powerful voice for justice in Ohio, the US, and Globally. Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community…
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