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  • Agenda 21 Action Thread

    03/23/2012 4:34:41 PM PDT · by TEXOKIE · 216 replies · 2+ views
    A few days ago I realized that we who are participating on the Agenda 21 thread have amassed an impressive amount of data and links which are quite important for the educating of anyone who is wondering what “Agenda 21” is all about. There is absolutely no question in the minds of any of our participants at this stage that “Agenda 21” is real, and is NOT a tin-foil hat conspiracy. There are quite a number of people on this forum who were way ahead of us, and have been quite patient with us while some (like myself) have played...
  • 'New release' of climate emails

    11/22/2011 8:44:44 AM PST · by goodnesswins · 103 replies
    BBC News ^ | 11/22/11 | Richard Black
    A computer hacking in Russia has lead to a release of more undermining info about "Climate." Here's one tidbit: "Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels."
  • Welcome to the U.N.‘s Agenda 21’s `Walkability’ -Sustainability Agenda 21 marches on

    08/03/2011 7:48:31 AM PDT · by opentalk · 18 replies
    Canada Freepress ^ | August 2, 2011 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
    Just when you thought you might sleep better at night, with only worries about feeding your family, keeping your job and home in a terrible economy, the debt ceiling just raised to $2.8 trillion, the United Nation’s “Sustainability” Agenda 21 marches on with the help of a myriad of private and governmental organizations nationwide dedicated to the “fundamental change” of America as we know it. The HUD Secretary just announced on July 28, 2011 the availability of $95 million to support “sustainable local initiatives” through the fiscal year 2011 Regional Planning and Community Challenge Planning Grant Programs. It seems like...
  • EcoFlats: One More Unsustainable Green Icon for Portland

    07/19/2011 12:21:42 AM PDT · by Twotone · 11 replies
    Cascade Policy Institute ^ | July 18, 2011 | Christopher Robinson
    So-called “sustainable development” is a longtime political interest in the city of Portland. Although the term itself is never defined, the concept implies the use of “green” design and technologies in order to reduce energy consumption, water use, solid waste and automobile travel. The loftiest goal is “net zero,” whereby all electricity and water needs are met from on-site generation and no outside sources are necessary. One such “sustainable” project is the EcoFlats apartment building located on North Williams Avenue in Portland’s Boise neighborhood. Recently, the development received a good deal of media coverage due to its implementation of green...
  • Agenda 21: The U.N.’s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds

    06/21/2011 7:18:45 PM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    forbes ^ | Jun. 14, 2011 | Larry Bell
    ...We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse.” Former Senator Timothy Wirth, representing the Clinton-Gore administration as undersecretary of state for global affairs, stated that public concern about global warming could be used to advance that cause: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” Wirth now heads the U.N. Foundation which has lobbied for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars...
  • "If It's Plastic, It's Organic" - Reason's science correspondent goes on a junket to Costa Rica...

    06/14/2011 8:02:01 PM PDT · by neverdem · 5 replies
    Reason ^ | June 14, 2011 | Ronald Bailey
    Reason's science correspondent goes on a junket to Costa Rica in search of sustainability. A couple of months ago, an invitation from a public relations firm dropped into my email to participate in an “invitation-only tour” of Dole Food Company pineapple and banana plantations in Costa Rica that would bring together "key leaders in sustainability.” I was eager to go on the all expenses paid junket for two reasons: (1) I have long been puzzled by what is meant by “sustainability” and (2) I used to work for the Tico Times many years ago and have a great affection for...
  • Tea partiers to the rescue (Agenda 21)

    06/04/2011 11:46:26 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 14 replies
    WND ^ | June 4th | Henry Lamb
    Whenever America gets into trouble, it is the ordinary people who come to the rescue. It's not the government. It's not the Hollywood stars who think their opinion is required to make the sun rise. It's not even the matriculated messiah in the White House. It is the ordinary, hardworking people who see their country in trouble and organize themselves into ferocious freedom fighters against whom the gates of hell cannot prevail. The current version of this uniquely American response to danger has been labeled the tea party. ............... At the local level, tea-party activists are showing up at city...
  • The Sustainable Development Hoax

    04/22/2011 11:37:02 PM PDT · by neverdem · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | April 22, 2011 | S. Fred Singer
    "Sustainable Development" (SD) is basically a slogan without a specific meaning.  Linked to Earth Day (April 22), it masquerades as a call for clean air, green energy, and suggests a pristine bucolic existence for us and our progeny -- forever.  But in reality,  it has become immensely useful to many groups who use the slogan to advance their own special agenda, whatever they may be. The term itself was invented by Gro Harlem Bruntlandt, a Norwegian socialist politician and former prime minister.  After her term there, she landed in Paris and, together with Club of Rome veteran Alexander King,...
  • 'Green' products don't live up to label claims

    04/03/2011 10:23:46 PM PDT · by neverdem · 19 replies
    Chemistry World ^ | 01 April 2011 | Fiona Case
    Household and personal products making claims about the sustainability of their ingredients may not be all they seem. According to analysis by US researchers, many such products contain surprising amounts of petroleum-derived ingredients. Some 'green' products contained over 50 per cent petroleum-based carbon components Researchers at Seventh Generation in Vermont - which makes its own range of household products from predominantly plant-derived ingredients - have been using carbon-14 analysis to reveal the origins of components in  liquid laundry detergent, washing up liquid, and hand wash products. Their results - particularly for products making sustainability claims - were quite surprising. For products sold in...
  • Confronting Sustainability

    03/28/2011 9:38:45 AM PDT · by wheresmyusa · 12 replies
    gopusa.com ^ | 3/28/2011 | Henry Lamb
    Four communities have rejected “Sustainability” since the first of the year. More will surely follow. To confront sustainability in your community you should learn everything you can about it. More than 600 American communities have entered into agreements with ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives), an international non-government organization created by the United Nations. ICLEI-USA was formed in 1995. ICLEI is a tool of both the U.N. and the federal government, used to transform American cities into “Sustainable Communities.” What is, and is not, sustainable is defined in Agenda 21, a 40-chapter document adopted in 1992 by the United...
  • The reason for RIO -the purpose within that urgent trip to Brazil (vanity)

    03/25/2011 8:45:38 AM PDT · by Baynative · 6 replies
    Baynative - Vanity ^ | 3/25/11 | Baynative
    Amidst a clutter of wide ranging New World Order platitudes was Obama's effort to eliminate borders, round up everyone into urban collectives and give Marxists the rope they need to hang us with a noose desguised as environmentalism.
  • The UN's Comic Attempt to Indoctrinate the Young

    03/09/2011 11:50:45 AM PST · by IbJensen · 7 replies
    New American ^ | 08 March 2011 | Joe Wolverton II
    While many of the acts of the United Nations are accurately described as laughable, their latest idea is literally comical. With only four years until the 2015 deadline for achieving its notorious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the UN has taken up the challenge of making children “fully aware of them” and “of the important role they can play in achieving them.” To that end, the discerning minds at that Manhattan morass have enlisted the aid of world famous soccer players to shill for the global shadow government. Claiming that sports figures “often act as role models” (all that planning for...
  • Archie bunker on sustainability and Democrats (Video)

    02/25/2011 7:55:48 AM PST · by wheresmyusa · 3 replies
    Youtube ^ | 11/13/10 | Youtube
    Archie Bunker on Democrats, sacrifice, & climate change.
  • Commissioners sever ties with environmental group (ICLEI gets the boot)

    01/24/2011 9:35:59 PM PST · by wheresmyusa · 6 replies
    Carroll County Times ^ | 1/21/2011 | Christian Alexandersen
    The Carroll County Board of Commissioners has made it clear it believes there is a distinction between "sustainability" and "environmentalism." On Jan. 12, the new, five-member board unanimously voted to terminate its membership with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an organization that provides technical consulting, training and information services to support local government in the implementation of sustainable development at the local level. Board President Doug Howard, R-District 5, said the definition of sustainability has changed over time to no longer just focus on protecting and preserving the environment, which is now environmentalism. Sustainability, Howard said, now includes...
  • EPA Shifting Its Emphasis to ‘Sustainability’

    12/02/2010 8:11:46 AM PST · by Nachum · 39 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | 12/2/10 | Susan Jones
    (CNSNews.com) - The Environmental Protection Agency, marking its 40th anniversary this week, announced that "sustainability concepts" will govern its programs from now on. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said her agency has commissioned a "groundbreaking" National Research Council study that will help the agency "incorporate sustainability into the way the agency approaches environmental protection." The announcement signifies an important step toward building a society that can meet its needs while preserving the ability of future generations to meet their needs, the EPA said in a Nov. 30 news release. Historically, environmental programs have focused on reducing air pollution and water...
  • World Mayors Sign Climate Agreement in Mexico City

    11/22/2010 12:21:59 PM PST · by wheresmyusa · 11 replies
    PR Newswire ^ | 11/21/2010 | PR Newswire
    MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayors from around the world today signed an agreement to address climate change at the World Mayors Summit on Climate, hosted by the Government of Mexico City and Marcelo Ebrard, mayor of Mexico City and chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate. During the summit, representatives from 135 global cities signed the Mexico City Pact, which establishes a monitoring and verification mechanism for cities to address climate change. The Mexico City Pact will be presented to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) when it meets later this month in...
  • NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index Expands to 100 Companies

    11/22/2010 7:56:23 AM PST · by wheresmyusa · 3 replies
    nasdaqomx.com ^ | 11/22/2010 | Press Release
    The following fifty one securities will be added to the Index: Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT), Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Nike, Inc. (NYSE:NKE), Pepsico, Inc. (NYSE:PEP), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM), Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE:KMB), Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. (NYSE:PHG), Royal Bank Of Canada (NYSE:RY), Portugal Telecom SGPS, S.A. (NYSE:PT), STMicroelectronics NV (NYSE:STM), General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS), Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc. (NYSE:FCX), Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX), Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE:PFE), France Telecom S.A. (NYSE:FTE), Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (NYSE:PCG), Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE:RDS-A), Rockwell Automation Inc (NYSE:ROK), EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC),...
  • The Tea Party Targets... Sustainable Development?

    11/18/2010 7:32:00 AM PST · by wheresmyusa · 31 replies
    Mother Jones ^ | 11/18/2010 | Stephanie Mencimer
    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...
  • EPA Draft: Shut Down Unsustainable Schools

    11/17/2010 11:06:21 PM PST · by wheresmyusa · 11 replies
    EPA ^ | 11/17/2010 | EPA
    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...
  • UN draft proposals: G77 & China will submit to Agenda 21

    11/09/2010 9:21:42 AM PST · by wheresmyusa · 7 replies · 1+ views
    United Nations ^ | 11/8/2010 | Yemen (bonus)
    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