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CELDF aims to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and to protect the rights of nature.
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Radical Visions Reconnecting Academia and Nature: A Community Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship

Wed, 09/30/2026 - 06:20

We invite you to watch these videos of "Radical Visions Reconnecting Academia and Nature: A Community Truth, Reckoning and Right Relationship" from a two-day event in March 2026.

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Categories: G1. Progressive Green

Press Release: 20th Anniversary of Rights of Nature 

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 12:19

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rights of Nature in Tamaqua, CELDF is sharing an interview with Cathy Miorelli and CELDF’s Education Director Ben Price as the two recall some of the events and impacts that led to the historic ordinance adoption in 2006.

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Categories: G1. Progressive Green

20th Anniversary of Rights of Nature

Fri, 09/18/2026 - 10:16

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rights of Nature in Tamaqua, CELDF is sharing an interview with Cathy Miorelli and CELDF’s Education Director Ben Price as the two recall some of the events and impacts that led to the historic ordinance adoption in 2006.

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Categories: G1. Progressive Green

“Common Sense” Newsletter – September 2026: Community Movement Building with Democracy School & Trainings

Wed, 09/16/2026 - 07:00

Our September Common Sense monthly newsletter shares a message about a new version of CELDF's Democracy School debuting in 2027, how much of what has been called a movement during the past two decades is more accurately understood as a collection of moments, and explains why and what we need to do to give ourselves a shot at challenging and collapsing the dominant system for all life, not just people.

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Categories: G1. Progressive Green

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