Santa Monica City Council introduces California's first community rights ordinance, recognizing the right to self-governance, clean air and water, sustainable food and energy systems, and…
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East Boulder County United statement on COGA’s lawsuit against Lafayette’s Community Rights initiative
FAQs – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling on Act 13
CELDF’s February Update
Global Exchange’s People to People Bog: Community Rights & Fracking Ban Tour hits Mendocino County
...CA, residents who are threatened with fracking. Residents are using Community Rights to protect themselves, gathering signatures for a Community Bill of Rights initiative banning…
Breaking: Grant Township Forces Pennsylvania to Revoke Injection Well Permit
PRESS RELEASE: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection enforces local Rights of Nature law. Allows Grant Township to protect vital waterways in revoking permit for dangerous…
Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland – Building a Movement for Rights
...change our structure of law and governance such that the rights of communities and nature are elevated above corporate claimed "rights" to frack, mine, privatize…
“What Revolution? Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Genocide from America’s Beginning”
...community rights and rights of nature local legislation. In 2010, Ben was called into Pittsburgh, PA, where he organized in the City’s nine districts and…
Metallic Mining and Freedom from Toxic Trespass
...including rights to Self-Government, a Healthy Environment, Self, Livelihood and Home, Cultural Heritage, Water and the Rights of Ecosystems. It also creates an operational right…
Guest Blog: Badges and Incidents of Slavery
...a reflection of CELDF’s commitment to featuring diverse perspectives and ideas in the quest to bring about a community rights and rights of nature existence…
Rights of Nature Podcast: Kai Huschke
Check out this interview with CELDF's Hawaii and Northwest organizer, Kai Huschke, on CELDF's partnerships with communities across the U.S. who have spearheaded the Rights…
NY Rights of Nature and Local Self-Governance Workshop – August 14, 2025
February 2025 saw a revised version of the NY Water Rights historic bill — with revisions suggested by residents and Indigenous community members — reintroduced…
Press Release: Unrepentant and Vindicated: Proposed Frack-Waste Injection Well in Grant Township to be Plugged and Abandoned
...movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the…
Wired: Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Future Oil Disasters
Considering the rights of ecosystems dates to 1972 with Christopher Stone, and has evolved today to local laws establishing Rights of Nature as a means…
National Catholic Reporter: Nature’s rights gain some legal standing
At the Global Rights of Nature Summit in Otavalo, Ecuador, CELDF representatives and other organizations gather to call for the advancement of the Rights of…
Suggested Reading – English Translation & Webinar of the Landmark Decision in Ecuador to Protect Los Cedros Forest over Mining Profits
...in the language of upholding the Rights of Nature, but it demonstrates what it looks like in legal language to uphold the rights of a…
Blog: From Standing Rock to Million Women March and Beyond…if There is One
Press Release: Ecosystem and Residents File Motion to Intervene In Federal Lawsuit
Press Release: Amicus Brief in support of Athens Plastic Bag Ban
...movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the…
Unmuting Rights of Nature
Ohio’s CELDF aims to restore Rights of Nature after lawmakers’ pushback Enjoy this WT Media Group interview with Tish O’Dell, Consulting Director CELDF. The interview…
LEBOR like bill in New York seeks Rights of Nature for Great Lakes
New York State Assemblyman Patrick Burke, a 37-year-old Democrat from the Buffalo area, has introduced legislation “that will create a Great Lakes Bill of Rights…
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