Agenda 21-Agenda 2030

Agenda 21—Agenda 2030

Agenda 21 to 2030
Sustainability:

The thrust of Agenda 21 is to transform

traditional individual property rights into
collective property rights.

Agenda 21 is based upon the premise that

government planning should replace the
western understanding of private
stewardship.

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Free Market vs Socialism
Troubled Lands: The Legacy of Soviet
Environmental Destruction

D. J. Peterson
Reviewed by By Richard N. Cooper
September/October 1993

Drawing mainly on interviews and Soviet official papers and

press reports, the author documents thoroughly the extensive
and depressing environmental degradation of the Soviet Union.
Environmentalists can take some comfort about their impact in
the West and the improvements there of recent decades, when
they survey this dismal picture. One of the few theoretical
justifications for central planning in an industrial society, as
compared to a decentralized economy based on private
enterprise, is that it is able to take into account the "externalities"
of waste disposal and thereby reduce air and water pollution. We
see here the sharp contrast between theory and reality. The
Soviet central planners basically ignored the externalities
altogether except when public health was directly threatened
(and often half-heartedly even then). The author also discusses
the role of Soviet environmentalists in reducing the wholesale
corruption of the environment and indirectly bringing down the
communist system. The book is a very useful source of
information.
The Green Economy

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 The Green Economy
Celebrating Old Technology

1904 German Electric Car

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 The Green Economy

Is Solar Viable?

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 The Green Economy
Celebrating Old Technology

The wind wheel of the Greek

engineer Heron of Alexandria
in the 1st century AD is the
earliest known instance of
using a wind-driven wheel to
power a machine.

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Private Sector Green Communities
Free Market vs Socialism
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“Everyone shall be
subject only to such
limitations as are
determined by law….”

1948
The 10 Planks of Communism

1. Abolition of property in land and application of

all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants
and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the
State, by means of a national bank with State
capital and an exclusive monopoly.

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The United Nations

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The United Nations

The Alger Hiss Connection

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UN TROOPS

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A Gun To The
Head

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Death By Government

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The Lords of Poverty

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Vancouver Meeting 1976
"All countries should establish as a matter of
urgency a national policy on human
settlements, embodying the distribution of
population...over national territory.
Such a policy should be devised to facilitate
population redistribution to accord
with the availability of resources."
(Recommendation A.1, HABITAT I,
Vancouver).
The Commission on Sustainable Development's
report laments "The U.S. does not
Our Common Future
Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy To Save Our Problem

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will

require a profound reorientation of all
human society, unlike anything the
world has ever experienced—a major
shift in the priorities of both
governments and individuals and an
unprecedented redeployment of human
and financial resources. This shift will
demand that a concern for the
environmental consequences of every
human action be integrated into
individual and collective decision-
making at every level
Maurice Strong – Founder of the UN Environment Programme

“ "Isn't the only hope for the planet

that the industrialized civilizations
collapse? Isn't it our responsibility
to bring that about?"
- Maurice Strong, founder of the
UN Environment Programme

”
Stealth Agenda
Jacques Yves Cousteau

“ “One American tires the earth much more than

twenty Bangladeshis. … World population must
be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate
350,000 people per day.” UNESCO Courier,
November 1991

“An American-born child environmentally is too

expensive to maintain to his or her adulthood in
a world economy. American women must be
subjected to some manner of regulation beyond
licensing and mandatory abortion practices.”
Speech at Earth Summit, 1992
Sustainable America
J. Gary Lawrence – Advisor to Bill Clinton

“ Participating in a UN advocated planning

process would very likely bring out many
of the conspiracy-fixated groups and
individuals in our society….This segment
of our society who fear ‘one-world
government” and a UN invasion of the
United States through which our
individual freedom would be stripped
away would actively work to defeat any
elected official who joined ‘the
Stealth Agenda conspiracy.” So let’s call our processes
something else such as comprehensive
planning, growth management or smart
growth
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ICLEI: International Council for
Local Environmental Initiatives http://www.icleiusa.org/

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an

association of over 1220 local government Members who
are committed to sustainable development. Our Members
come from 70 different countries and represent more
than 569,885,000 people.

ICLEI is an international association of local governments as

well as national and regional local government
organizations who have made a commitment to sustainable
development.

ICLEI provides technical consulting, training, and information

services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support
local government in the implementation of sustainable
development at the local level. Our basic premise is that
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ICLEI Membership Un-Constitutional

United States Constitution: Article 1

Section 10

No state shall enter into any treaty,

alliance, or confederation; … enter
into any agreement or compact with
another state, or with a foreign
power…

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Communities Initiative
Page 15:

 Strategy to Address Barriers and Incorporate Existing

Plans:

 Anticipated barriers include NH’s strong tradition of

individual property rights…
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Education: Promise & Paradox
“Generally, more highly educated
people, who have higher incomes,
consume more resources than
poorly educated people, who tend
to have lower incomes. In this case,
more education increases the
threat to sustainability.”
The ESD Toolkit version 2.0: See the Introduction subheading
– Education: Promise and Paradox

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The Greening of the Dept. of Education

“Today, I promise you that [the Department of

Education] will be a committed partner in the
national effort to build a more environmentally
literate and responsible society… We must
advance the sustainability movement through
education… Education and sustainability are
the keys to our economic future-and our
ecological future…”

The Greening of the Department of Education: Secretary Dunc

an's Remarks at the Sustainability Summit
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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Stack Them & Pack Them Housing ---
The Wave of the future?

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Benefit Corporations
From the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability

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Sustainable Rhode Island
Sustainable RI is a multi faceted initiative to transform
Rhode Island into the nation’s first Sustainable State.
The Apeiron Institute launched Sustainable RI as the
Rhode Island Sustainability Coalition in 2001 to put
“sustainable” thinking at the heart of how we grow and
develop our state. The Coalition, with more than 50
partners, can point to a number of successes
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 What Is Sustainable Medicine ?

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NGOs and Land Trusts
Nature Conservancy: President Mark Tercek, CFR and
Goldman Sachs
Rhode Island Land Trusts
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 Agriculture in RI
 Five farmers share their stories - the urgent need to protect Rhode Island's remaining working farms is complicated by
challenges that farmers face: finding land to farm and sustaining the economic viability of farms.
 Click on the photo above to watch the video.
 Protecting Rhode Island's Working Farms
 Go to the Farm Conservation page for the Council's other videos and reports about farm conservation in Rhode
Island.
 Rhode Island Land Trust Council
 The Rhode Island Land Trust Council is a coalition of the state's land trusts - community-based organizations formed
to protect land that preserves the open spaces, natural areas, scenic character, farm lands, forests, historic sites,
watersheds, and drinking water supplies that define the character of our communities and our state. Collectively, land
trusts are preserving the special places that are our heritage and will be our legacy for future generations.
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 Photo credit: David Thalmann, Aquidneck Land Trust
 Land Trusts in Rhode Island are grass roots organizations that reflect the uniqueness and priorities of their
communities. The first land trusts in Rhode Island were formed in 1972 (Sakonnet Preservation Association and Block
Island Conservancy). Today there are over 45 land trusts in Rhode Island operating in all but four of the state's 39
municipalities.
 Only seven Rhode Island land trusts have staff - the others are volunteer organizations. Dozens of people across the
state dedicate 100's of hours of their time to preserve and manage
Maine Land Trusts
 Maine now ranks second in the nation (after California) in acres conserved, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Land Trust Alliance, self-described as “the national convener, strategist and representative of more than 1,700 land trusts
across America.”
 The LTA’s 2010 Census Report revealed 88 land trusts operating in Maine, including 60 staffed groups and 16 all-volunteer groups.
 Conservation easements are a tool many organizations—primarily land trusts—are using to shape the future use of land across the state and nation. Land trusts are usually organized as private, non-profit corporations, which—as part of
their mission to prevent land from future human developments and to augment ecosystems—pursue conservation easement acquisitions from private landowners, often utilizing a combination of public and private funding.
 Sometimes trusts buy land outright, applying a conservation easement to the deed; other times they buy or have donated to them an easement for a privately held parcel of land.
 Donated easements of privately held land can take many forms, but ultimately they provide the holding organization a certain right to use or control the real property of another without actually possessing it. Most conservation easements
transfer some present or future usage rights of the landowner to the corporate trust and create an enforceable land preservation agreement between the two entities. As an encumbrance to the deed, an easement tends to significantly reduce the
fair market and taxable value of the land it covers.
 The sale or donation of conservation easements on the part of a private landowner to a trust is strictly voluntary, but the implications for the decision last in perpetuity: easements pass with the transfer of the deed to a property. The terms are
perpetual—forever binding all future owners of the property to the terms of the easement.
 For centuries, land trusts offered individuals and organizations a mechanism to hide ownership and to provide a way of skirting the financial burdens of land ownership. Today, land trusts actively market the sale or donation of easements as a
tax management tool. On the national scene, Mark Warda, in his book “Land Trusts for Privacy & Profit,” details strategies for using land trusts to keep the purchase price of land secret, and to avoid probate losses, deed transfer costs, liens
and lawsuits.
 A perusal of promotional documents from the late 1990s to 2005 from a number of Maine land trusts, reveals an intense marketing of easement donations as a way for landowners to obtain substantial income tax deductions and reduced
property and estate taxes. While those factors still exist today, many trusts have limited this message and asserted the environmental and “common good” benefits of conserved land.
 “Land trusts are like snowflakes,” says Rob Aldrich, communications director for the Land Trust Alliance. “They’re all unique. The land trusts that are all-volunteer that are run by boards can be very effective and they can do great work at the
community level. But we have noticed—and we’ve done a number of these censuses—that many times it’s the groups with the larger staff that can conserve larger parcels of land or more acres per year.”
 These groups also have larger budgets. “The budgets they have are used to protect that land in perpetuity,” Aldrich said. “They have a large stewardship fund, they have a large conservation defense fund, and they have larger endowments. So
some of those larger groups are more sustainable.”
 “On the other hand, some of these small groups that are all-volunteer have been all-volunteer for many, many years,” he said. “They have just proven by their existence that they are themselves sustainable. It’s just that they do different things
for the land trust community. The smaller groups have deep roots in the community; they know the community, they know the area, they know the landscape. They know what land the community needs. The smaller groups have that deep,
intimate knowledge of their smaller communities, which is a big asset. Oftentimes the larger groups have the capacity to save more land.”
 But as time goes on, smaller land trusts may not be able to raise funds to meet stewardship and administrative responsibilities associated with the land they control.
 “We’re seeing a lot of land trusts that are merging with each other,” Aldrich said. “They are just finding that banding together and having administrative costs borne by a larger organization allows people to be freed up to do the other work of
the organization, which is the community outreach and things like that—the things that help organizations to be stronger.”
 “The best, most successful mergers are ones that really only happen when both trusts want to merge,” Aldrich said. “There has actually been a case where, I think, seven organizations merged into one. They all merge because they have the
same interests.”
 Concerns have been raised by the property-rights community in objection to the removal of landowner rights. How does Aldrich respond to their concerns?
 “Frankly, I’m a little bit puzzled,” he said. “The whole nice thing about what land trusts do is that its private money—sometimes there’s government money involved—but it’s private organizations working with private landowners working to
save land for the community.
 “These are voluntary agreements, they are private agreements,” Aldrich said. “A person has a right to do with their land what they as they want. If they want to build a shopping mall on it, well, they have that right. If they want to protect it so
there is no shopping mall on it, they can do that.
 “These property rights people seem to have an agenda, but I’m not sure what that is,” Aldrich said. “We have tried in the past to talk to property rights folks, but that doesn’t seem to get us anywhere.”
 This is the second in an ongoing series about Maine Land Trusts – Read all articles here.
 Diana George Chapin is a freelance writer and a fourth-generation family farmer from Montville, Maine.
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 CLURPA-unelected regional planning commissions

 Proposed mileage tax
 Smart Meters
 Trash Police
 Flush tax?
 Green Codes
 Roads closed
 Idling laws and ordinances
 Manufacturing gone
 Property tax increase
 Rent Increases
 Lack of local, state and federal sovereignty
 Public and Private Schools promoting Agenda 21

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Bottled Water Ban Rezoning of towns
Plastic bags Towns forced to reduce
Permit Banks their “carbon footprint.
Higher food prices due
to the ethanol
HUD funded projects
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 Bills and/or resolution in NH, TN, GA
 Gateway 1 in Maine defeated
 Proposed legislation in Arizona
 Resolution against Agenda 21 passed in Tennessee
 Alabama bans ICLEI from state
 Klamath County, WA
 Plantation, FLA
 Carver, MA
 Norman, Ok
 Lexington and Abington, VA
 James County and Albemarle Counties, VA
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 Somerset and Monmouth Counties, NJ
 Ocean County, NJ Resolution against Agenda 21
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