More than just recognizing legal rights, the growing Rights of Nature movement is a paradigm shift in the relationship between human beings and nature.

More than just recognizing legal rights, the growing Rights of Nature movement is a paradigm shift in the relationship between human beings and nature.
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…
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…
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…
The Editorial Board of the Toledo Blade calls out the irony of Houston-based BP Corporation funding the anti-Lake Erie Bill of Rights campaign, which attacked…
BP Corporation was the sole monetary donor behind the campaign to quash the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR). The measure won with 61% of…
Community members from Toledo, Ohio, are invited to the United Nations this month to speak about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights adopted by citizens…
GRANT TOWNSHIP, INDIANA COUNTY, PA: On April 1, federal Judge Susan Paradise Baxter issued an order that was not a joke: Grant Township (pop. 741),…
The people of New Hampshire have the right to govern themselves and protect their communities from corporate harm - yet the state legislature blocks them…
The New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment, CACR8, went before the state House of Representatives last week. It was blocked from advancing to a vote by…
Lake Erie files a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by industry to overturn the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
The Great Lake Erie files to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the agricultural industry to overturn Toledo, Ohio's, Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Nottingham, New Hampshire, residents adopt the second right to healthy climate law in the state at Town Meeting.
Yesterday, Exeter, New Hampshire, residents adopted their Right to a Healthy Climate Ordinance at Town Meeting. This is the first right-based climate law in the…
Thom Hartmann interviews CELDF's Ohio organizer Tish O'Dell on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights adopted by Toledo residents.
"What we really need to do is look at the (lake) as a whole, as an ecosystem that has inherent rights, that transcends the political…
“We’ve been using the same laws for decades to try and protect Lake Erie. They’re clearly not working." Thus, Toledo, Ohio, community members recognized the…
The Editorial Board of the Toledo Blade takes a stand for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Lake Erie joins growing numbers of ecosystems around the world where people and governments are recognizing their rights to exist, flourish, and evolve.
Lake Erie's legal rights are now acknowledged following Toledo, Ohio's, special election on Tuesday.
Lake Erie now has legally-enforceable rights, with the overwhelming majority of Toledo, Ohio, residents voting in support of their Lake Erie Bill of Rights citizen…