This international event announcement was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Funds website on September 18th, 2018. International Rights of Nature Symposium – Quito, Ecuador September 27, 2018 — September 28, 2018 what’s happening? Ten years ago, the Ecuadorian people adopted the first in the world constitution that recognized the Rights of Nature to [...]
This notification to the Water Security Summit happening in Orono, Maine was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) website September 24th, 2018. Security Summit in Maine September 29, 2018 what’s happening? Maine residents have a plentiful supply of water, but there are growing threats to the water’s quality and quantity. To effectively [...]
On April 29, 2018, an extraordinary celebration place on the shores of the North Oconee River in Athens, Georgia. It was organized by the North Oconee River Project, a team of artists and scientists working towards some very lofty goals. Much earlier, in the Spring of 2017, University of Georgia grad student Carla Cao had [...]
This event was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's website, February 28, 2018. What’s happening? Last spring, in the City of Lafayette, CO, residents took a stand to protect themselves from the unrelenting fossil fuel extraction threatening their health, safety, and welfare. The City Council adopted the first CELDF-drafted Climate Bill of Rights [...]
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 28th, 2018. OREGON: Tomorrow evening, Carol Van Strum will receive the David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award at a public ceremony in Eugene, Oregon. The international honor is named after David Brower, one of the founders of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and [...]
This press release from the Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition, November 28, 2017. Editor’s note: The first Rights of Nature lawsuit in the United States, Colorado River v. Colorado, was filed September 25, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The full text of the complaint can be found here. by Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition Denver, CO – The Colorado [...]
Where: Tulane University Law School New Orleans, Louisiana When: Friday, October 27, 2017 Free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend in person, space is limited The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), with its International Center for the Rights of Nature, is partnering with Tulane Law School to host the [...]
The first ever full length documentary on the work of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was released in October 2016 by Tree Media. Quoting from the production company's materials: "We the People 2.0 is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States. The film utilizes both original footage as well [...]
On February 8, 2015, in the middle of a classic Midwest blizzard, 49 local Community Rights activists from about a dozen counties across rural Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, met for a full day in Whitehall, Wisconsin to educate themselves, to network with like minded people, and to build community. This was the informal network's second [...]
