We invite you to watch this short “teaser” video of "Radical Visions Reconnecting Academia and Nature: A Community Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship" from a…
Press Release: Earth Destroying Corporations Flood Lane County Election with Dark Money
“We’re sick and tired of a system in which a few wealthy corporations have the legal right to pollute our water, poison our communities, and…
“Protecting the Rights of Nature: From Concept to Success” featuring Will Falk
CELDF's Will Falk gave a presentation on Rights of Nature for the Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra Club's Cape Cod & Islands Group. The Cape…
Press Release: “Water is Life” — Lane County, Oregon Seeks Watershed Rights
Should people have a right to clean drinking water and healthy rivers and streams? Or, should corporations have the legal right to pollute and harm…
Resistance Grows as Border Wall Construction Threatens Jaguars
Though there are sections of border wall that have been in place for decades, the desire of the current regime to build a complete wall…
Living in a Warzone in Oregon – Support CELDF in the Resistance!
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…
Finger Lakes Times: Rights of nature/Rights of water
What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of legal rights that would criminalize actions that make our water and resources toxic?
Press Release: Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights Qualifies for May 2026 Ballot
Lane County’s watersheds provide drinking water, irrigation for farms, and habitat for fish and wildlife. Yet these waterways face increasing threats from pollution, overuse, and…
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…
Columbus Free Press: There is Much We Can Do – How a Columbus Anti-Preemption City Charter Amendment Would Interfere with the American War Machine
The folks in Columbus, Ohio with their anti-preemption city charter amendment, are attacking the structure of American law which protects the American war machine, the…
Press Release: Columbus, Ohio Residents Strike Back Against “Liquidation of the Right to Local Self-Determination”
COLUMBUS, OH – What can a community do when the democratic process itself has been outlawed? That’s the question facing residents of Ohio.
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…
Group announces PGE to plug controversial well
According to the CELDF, “not a single drop of frack waste has been injected within the township due to hard work, resistance and resilience.”
Waste well to be plugged in Grant Township
Toxic frack-waste injection well to be plugged in Grant Township.
Press Release: Unrepentant and Vindicated: Proposed Frack-Waste Injection Well in Grant Township to be Plugged and Abandoned
To date, not a single drop of frack waste has been injected within the Township due to hard work, resistance, and resilience.
Got Community Resistance?
Dean Barlese, an elder of the Pyramid Lake Paiute-Shoshone, who told us “We've got to stand up for our ancestors, they gave their lives, they…
Press Release: Ohio River Rights Campaign Launched by Cincinnati Residents
“We began to understand through this process that we are not only connected to the Ohio River, but that we are part of the ecosystem,”…
Press Release: Grant Township Charter Struck Down by Commonwealth Court
While unjust, the ruling from the Commonwealth Court is not unexpected. Courts have routinely ruled against communities and the environment in favor of harmful corporate…
Guest Blog: Community Rights in Buffalo, NY
Systems change doesn’t hinge on electing the right candidate – it’s advanced most forcefully when organized communities engage in direct action.
Glen’s Parallax Perspectives – Interview with Kai Huschke
Glen Anderson interviewed two experts — Kai Huschke and Elliott Moffett — who have savvy insights and practical experience working to protect environments and establish…
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