Entries of interest tagged with: rights of nature

CELDF 11-5-14 Election Update: Community Rights Fracking Bans

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Martin

From: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CEDLF), 11-5-14: Election results are in for our communities – please join us in celebrating the following wins for Community Rights: ATHENS, OH: With 78% of the vote, Athens, OH, residents overwhelmingly adopted a … more →

PA Judge: Corporations Are Not “Persons”

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Martin

A New Civil Rights Movement: Liberating Our Communities from Corporate Control Pennsylvania judge holds that corporations are not “persons” under the Pennsylvania Constitution By Thomas Alan Linzey, Esq., Executive Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund March 28, 2013—To protect small … more →

Community Bill of Rights Strategy

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Martin

From CELDF, 11/8/12: Three communities banned shale gas drilling and fracking on Election Day, Nov 6, 2012, adopting Community Bill of Rights charter amendments. Mansfield and Broadview Heights, OH, and Ferguson Township, PA, asserted their rights to clean air and … more →

Boksenbaum: ‘Strategies for Change’

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Martin

Three recent newsletters discuss their organization’s perspectives on how to bring about change. One talks about nonviolent direct action, another about securing rights via home rule charters and constitutions, and the third about achieving change goals via the development of … more →

Chambersburg Declaration & Community Rights Networking

Posted on July 15, 2011 by pkc

Alliance Resolution in Support of the Chambersburg Declaration and the Community Rights Work of CELDF The Steering Committee of the Alliance for Sustainable Communities-Lehigh Valley endorses the Chambersburg Declaration of February 20, 2010 and the community rights work of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund … more →

Rights of Nature | Rights of Mother Earth

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Peter Crownfield

The ‘rights of nature’ concept recognizes that the natural systems have a right to exist, and that these rights may be superior to the commerce and property rights of humans; unfortunately this concept is only now becoming more widely appreciated. … more →

Rights of Nature

Posted on June 12, 2011 by pkc

As the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) points out in discussing its “Rights of Nature” work, environmental laws “regulating how much pollution or destruction of nature can occur under law”, are actually permitting the environmental harms to occur. CELDF’s approach takes … more →

Sustainability & Public Health

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Peter Crownfield

Let’s look at sustainability in terms of how our practices affect human health, both immediately and over the long term.  Whether we call them health problems or environmental problems, though, the prescription for corrective actions is almost identical.  The health lens is … more →

Communities Claim Their Rights

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Peter Crownfield

Many communities have found that that state laws bar municipalities from taking actions stronger than whatever standards may be set by the state—even when those standards are nowhere near adequate to protect public health.  Communities in PA & other states are taking action … more →