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The Bureau meeting followed a meeting of the EC-ESA, which had been chaired by UNCSD Secretary-General Sha Zukang, who reported that, during the previous discussion, participants suggested that UNCSD should not reopen Agenda 21 or the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), and they should play a role in linking climate change, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the sustainable development agenda. They had suggested that the "green economy" was a mechanism to facilitate the implementation and achievement of national sustainable development plans, and not a substitute for sustainable development. Participants further identified priority issues including access to energy, water, food...

First, they took on the political establishment in Congress. Now, tea partiers have trained their sights on a new and insidious target: local planning and zoning commissions, which activists believe are carrying out a global conspiracy to trample American liberties and force citizens into Orwellian "human habitation zones." At the root of this plot is the admittedly sinister-sounding Agenda 21, an 18-year-old UN plan to encourage countries to consider the environmental impacts of human development. Tea partiers see Agenda 21 behind everything from a septic tank inspection law in Florida to a plan in Maine to reduce traffic on Route...

To reach the best outcome – healthy, safe school locations that support high quality education and promote sustainable communities – the process must start at the decision of whether or not a new school site is required, and whether that site and associated educational facilities can be used to support these outcomes. The local education agency (LEA), in concert with the school siting committee (SSC) and with appropriate public involvement, should identify the criteria that will be used to evaluate both the present characteristics and the possible future characteristics of all sites being considered for use as a school as...

"Tea Party activists share some common goals with progressives,” said Amy Goodman, creator of Democracy Now, a liberal TV and radio show that airs on public stations across America. She spoke to an overflow crowd in Boulder on November 5 at a fundraiser for the public radio station KGNU (88.5 FM and 1390 AM) About 600 members and listeners to the station assembled at the Unity Church in Boulder to buy her books and contribute funds to the station. Evangelical Christians were the butt of jokes by warm-up speakers with a general comedic theme that aligned “evangelical Christians with the...

Michael Shaw of freedomadvocates.org on the globalist new world order scheme and United Nations Agenda 21.

First California. Now they're shooting at Queens! Two days after a mysterious vapor trail appeared at sundown off the Los Angeles coast -- triggering fears of an enemy missile attack -- a stunning replay occurred in the sky over Far Rockaway. A passer-by snapped a photo of a billowing streak yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Like Monday's scare on the West Coast, it looked like the exhaust from a just-launched missile. What caused the contrail visible from the Rockaways also is not known. "It looked like a rocket," said the photographer, who added that the plume appeared to the...

A/C.2/65/L.18 Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Submitted by: Yemen (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China) Introduced at 27th meeting - 11/4/2010

Over the past several months, the American Policy Center (APC) has mailed more than 100,000 “Remove ICLEI, Restore the Republic Survey” to Americans across the nation. The mail package contained not only the Survey, but also a detailed report on Sustainable Development and how ICLEI (International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives) is being paid dues by local communities to impose this UN Agenda 21 policy. ICLEI is now operating in more than 600 American cities—mostly in relative secrecy. More cities are being pressured to give ICLEI control of development policy making. In most cases that includes creating non-elected boards, councils...

A U.N. biodiversity conference aims to address a simple problem: "We are destroying life on Earth," said the head of the U.N. Environment Program. The world cannot afford to allow nature's riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday at the start of a major meeting to combat losses in animal and plant species that underpin livelihoods and economies. The U.N. cited the worst extinction rate since the dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago, saying it's a crisis that needs to be addressed by governments, businesses and communities. A U.N.-backed study this month said global environmental damage caused by...

Areal-life experiment in engineering green behavior unfolded recently in the nation's capital. Washington, D.C., imposed a five-cent tax on every disposable bag, paper or plastic, handed out at any retail outlet in the city that sells food, candy or liquor, effective Jan 1. But more important than the extra cost was something more subtle: No one got bags automatically anymore. Instead, shoppers had to ask for them—right in front of their fellow customers. The result? Retail outlets that typically use 68 million disposable bags per quarter handed out 11 million bags in the first quarter of this year and fewer...

During Rep. Mike Thompson’s phone call town hall meeting on July 28, I asked Thompson, “Do you support Napa and Sonoma counties’ Agenda 21 plans? If yes, why? Could you please explain to the citizens what Agenda 21 is?” I asked the questions because most people still don’t know what Agenda 21 is. Thompson didn’t answer my question during his meeting, but Thompson said if callers left contact information (which I did), unanswered questions would be answered within one week. After three weeks I called Thompson’s office asking where his response to my question was. Sept. 10, I received this...

I think this music could make for a powerful video for the November elections, in the hands of the right person. Unraveling - Sevendust (2010) I need an answer Some way to understand You're still so convincing And a lil out of hand So tell me one thing Who gave you all those scars And took away your innocence You push away with everything you are I can't take this anymore I'm tired of breaking I'm tired of breaking I want the world to see You sold a broken dream You were not there for me I was Unraveling All...

As the calendar rushes toward the Nov. 2 elections, prospects increase for a bloody "lame-duck" session. There is a laundry list of bills stacked up for passage that have not yet made it to the floor for a vote. After the elections, Democrats who lost will have nothing further to lose and will be eager to get as much of Obama's radical agenda enacted as possible. Lurking in the shadows is Sen. Chris Dodd's Livable Communities Act (S.1619). This bill will essentially write into domestic law the recommendation set forth in Chapter 10 of Agenda 21. Since the Clinton era,...

Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) told CNSNews.com at a "Sustainability Education Summit" hosted by the U.S. Education Department on Tuesday that environmental education in schools can "promote the agenda" of climate change and population growth through the influence it has on children. “Like I keep saying over and over again, if you get young people invested in those ideas early on, that will result in those kinds of positive policy developments," Sarbanes told CNSNews.com. "So, whether it’s climate change, whether it’s population growth, whether it’s all these factors that impact the health of our world, raising that awareness early among young...

"But the purpose of development—and what’s needed most right now—is creating the conditions where assistance is no longer needed. So we will seek partners who want to build their own capacity to provide for their people. We will seek development that is sustainable."

The ALA in California backs the state's efforts to reduce sprawl and foster a different kind of built environment in the future: "If doctors and other health experts designed our cities, they would look quite different than the sprawling communities we see today," said Sonal R. Patel, M.D., American Lung Association in California Board Member and Director of White Memorial Pediatric Medical Groups Division of Allergy and Immunology in Los Angeles. "Cities would provide more healthy choices, more opportunities for walking and biking, better access to transit, less congestion, more housing close to workplaces, and more parks for kids and...

"Two months ago, PositiveID (PSID) said it was giving up on its implantable radio-frequency medical records microchip, and conspiracy theorists everywhere breathed a sigh of relief: Previously, the only market PositiveID had found for the chip was a group of Alzheimer’s patients in Florida who may not have consented to being implanted." "But don’t worry too much about that, for I have good news, dystopia lovers! PositiveID — formerly known as VeriChip – just announced a partnership with Siemens (SI) that may yet put PSID back in the business of persuading us all to carry microchips under our skin. The...

Countries prioritized “environmental governance” as a key concern to achieving and sustaining global environmental outcomes, in addition to the other top needs: 1) public awareness and environmental education; 2) information management and exchange; 3) strengthening organizational mandates and structures; and 4) economic instruments and sustainable financing mechanisms. Within the environmental governance context, 79% of respondents highlighted “policy development and enforcement” as the priority constraint and priority capacity development need. “The main governance need lies in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental policies, legislation, and regulation, including the mainstreaming of [multilateral environmental agreements] into national environmental management and development frameworks.”The...

The lines have been drawn, in one of the most highly contested changes to take place in recent history. A group of citizens have faced ridicule from the local paper, disdain from the City, and disbelief from the rewrite committee. The group met last Thursday night, and had about 35 people in attendance. They discussed the rewrite, and the problems with the new zoning law. Then on Friday the City Manager held a meeting to tell all the media all the things that are good about the new law. People at the City have said that the accusations of Agenda...

Look for massive amounts of new content within a new ENVIRONMENT section of the Living in Concord–Recycling section of Concord’s website. In addition to the take the CONCORD ENVIRONMENTAL PLEDGE (inactive link), according to a directory on the city’s site (see pdf of archive below), the new ENVIRONMENT section will include, among other things, pages about how to follow state-mandated Construction & Demolition Rules or how to drain your pool legally. There’s also a GREENWASHING (see PDF) page that allegedly exposes the lies of corrupt vendors and, much like Obamacare, misleading product labels (We need to open the can to...