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Presents
The Global to Local Action Plan Sustainable
Development AGENDA 21
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1992 CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT
DEVELOPMENT Earth Summit Adopted by 178
nations including the United States.
http//www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
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1. Preamble 21. Management of solid
waste 2. International Cooperation 22.
Management radioactive waste 3. Combating
Poverty 23. Strengthening major groups 4.
Changing Consumption Patterns 24. Global action
for women 5. Demographics Sustainably 25.
Children youth in sus dev 6. Protecting Human
Health 26. Indigenous people 7. Human
Settlements 27. NGO
partners 8. Integrating environment 28.
Local authorities in support development
decisions of Agenda 21 9. Protecting
the atmosphere 29. Strengthening trade
unions 10. Planning management of land 30.
The role of business industry 11. Combating
deforestation 31. Scientific technology 12.
Desertification drought 32. The role of
farmers 13. Sustainable mountain development
33. Financial resource mechanisms 14.
Sustainable agriculture 34. Transfer
technology 15. Conservation biodiversity 35.
Science for sustainable development 16.
Management of biotechnology 36. Promoting
education training 17. Protection of
oceans 37. International cooperation 18.
Management of the use of water 38.
International Institutions 19. Management of
toxic Chemicals 39. International
mechanisms 20. Management of hazardous wastes
40. Information for decision-making
CONTROL OF Land Use Housing Transportation Food
Production Consumption Patterns Water Energy Educa
tion Role of Business Industry Health Care
http//www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
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1976 U.N. Conference on Human Settlements Habitat
I From the Preamble Land...cannot
be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled
by individuals and subject to the pressures
and inefficiencies of the market. Private
land ownership is also the principle
instrument of accumulation and concentration
of wealth, and therefore, contributes to
social injustice..."
http//habitat.igc.org/vancouver/vp-intr.htm
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Recommendations from Habitat I A-1.
Redistribute population in accord with
resources D-1. Government must control the use
of land to achieve equitable
distribution of resources D-2. Control Land Use
through zoning and land-use planning
D-3. Excessive profits from land use must be
recaptured by government D-4. Public
ownership of land should be used to exercise
urban and rural land reform D-5. Owner
rights should be separated from development
rights which should be held by public
authority.
http//habitat.igc.org/vancouver/vp-intr.htm
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The Three Es - Equity (Social) Using the Law
to Restructure Human Nature to transform our
system of equal justice to one of social justice.
Economy Redistribution of Wealth -
Public/Private Partnerships Draft Covenant on
Environment Development Article 8 ...equity
will be achieved through the transfer of
resources to developing countries. The
economic policy restructures the economy molding
it not on private enterprise but on
public/private partnerships. Environment
Nature Above Man Every societal decision would
first be questioned as to how it might effect
the environment.
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AGENDA 21 COMES TO AMERICA White House Press
Release June 14, 1993 Announcing President's
Council on Sustainable Development
http//archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u0
61493-press-release-on-sustainable-development.htm

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AGENDA 21 COMES TO AMERICA
President Bill Clinton's Executive Order
12852 Created the President's Council
On Sustainable Development (PCSD) June 29, 1993
http//www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive
-orders/pdf/12852.pdf
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150 policy recommendations taken from Agenda 21
http//clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/Publications/TF_Repo
rts/amer-top.html
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Participating in a U.N. advocated planning
process would very likely bring out many ... who
would actively work to defeat any elected
official ... Undertaking Local Agenda 21. So we
will call our process something else, such as
comprehensive planning, growth management, or
smart growth.
J. Gary Lawrence
Advisor to the Presidents Council
on Sustainable Development
http//www.unedforum.org/publications/millennium/m
ill20paper2.pdf
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CONVENTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Obama's
Executive Order 13575 White House Rural Council
June 9, 2011
http//www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/DCPD-201100431/pdf/DC
PD-201100431.pdf
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AGENDA 21 COMES TO VIRGINIA
http//leg2.state.va.us
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AGENDA 21 COMES TO VIRGINIA 15.2-4200
Regional Cooperation Act of 1995 - Power to
regulate, create debt and apply directly to the
federal government for grants. HB3202 Urban
Development Areas (2007)- Mandates high-density
urban development using new urbanism design
principles 10.1-1700 - Open-space Easement Act
Chapter 10.1 - Virginia Conservation Easement
Act to provide incentives for the conservation
of land into perpetuity. 10.1-563. Regulation
of land-disturbing activities 15.2-2316.2.
Purchase and transfer of development rights.
15.2-5102 Water, sewer refuse authorities,
etc. specified as political subdivisions of
State 15.2-5114 given powers of eminent
domain.
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2003 International Conference on Education for a
Sustainable Future The Decade of Education for
Sustainable Development (DESD) 2005 2014
UNESCO named leader The Decade of ESD is a
far-reaching and complex undertaking that
potentially touches on every aspect of life. The
basic vision is a world where everyonelearns
the values, behavior, and lifestyles required
for a sustainable future and for positive
societal transformation.
http//www.desd.org/About20ESD.htm
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http//vsbn.org/docs/GreeningVA_K-12_Schools_Repor
t2008.pdf
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Partners for Sustainable Development in
Virginia ICLEI - International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives ICMA International
County/City Management Association American
Planning Association member of the
PCSD Virginia Municipal League - association of
city, town, and county governments VaCo -
Virginia Association of Counties VSBA - Virginia
School Board Association VAIS Virginia
Association of Independent Schools
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AKA International Council for Environmental
Initiatives Assisting Local Governments with
boilerplate solutions for Sustainable Development.
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• ICLEI Member Requirements
• Identify liaisons elected officials, media, and
  staff
• Pass a resolution within 6 months to prioritize
  "Climate Change
• Mitigation" and how they'll go forward with
  Climate Change
• Mitigation policies.
• Set 5 milestones to reduce carbon footprint.

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PLANNERS NETWORK MEMBERSHIP
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PLANNERS NETWORK
http//www.plannersnetwork.org/about/statement.htm
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• IMPLEMENTATION Global to Local
• Millions in grants awarded to the American
  Planning Association
• for the Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
• The EPA issued millions in grants to local
  governments and organizations
• for visioning projects.
• HUD issued millions in grants for sustainable
  communities programs
• The Dept. of Energy issued millions in grants to
  local governments under
• the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant
  Program. (Cap Trade)
• Department of Education NGOs issued millions
  in grants for education
• in sustainable development and social justice.

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Local Visioning Projects
EPA Grant
NGO Organization
Local Government
Initiator
Visioning Council (Bankers, Politicians, NGO
leaders, Businessmen, Planners, and Bureaucrats)
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Visioning Council
Present PCSD recommendations as local goals
for the community Through the consensus
process, eliminate any objections that might
arise Develop specific recommendations to
achieve goals
Comprehensive Plan of Action
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• LOCAL AGENDA 21 COMP PLAN FOR LAND USE
• Zoning for high-density (clustering, mixed-use
  housing, affordable housing, workforce housing,
  businesses, public transportation
• Down-zoning in rural areas to require 25 or more
  acres to build one home.
• Incentives for land conservation historical
  preservation
• Land disturbance ordinances (tilling/plowing is
  prohibited)
• Landscape and food production regulations
• Tree removal ordinance
• Higher percentage of land left natural and
  undisturbed
• Decreased setbacks in high-density areas and
  increased set backs in rural areas.
• Open space, greenways

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• LOCAL AGENDA 21 COMP PLAN FOR TRANSPORTATION
• Traffic circles
• Bicycle paths walking trails
• High speed rail
• Narrowing of roads
• Elimination of cul-de-sacs
• Steering of all future growth to public
  transportation hubs
• No parking zones
• Road closings

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• LOCAL AGENDA 21 COMP PLAN FOR ENERGY
• Smart meters
• Energy Star appliances, heating air
  conditioning
• Wind solar energy
• Energy audits of homes and businesses
• Energy efficiency strategies (reduce
  consumption, rationing)
• Green building codes to meet LEED standards
  (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
• Retrofitting of existing buildings to meet new
  standards

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• LOCAL AGENDA 21 COMP PLAN FOR WATER
• Greater expansion and protection of wetlands
• 100 300 ft. buffers to streams ponds
• Expansion of watershed
• Water conservation strategies (reduce
  consumption, rationing)
• Green building codes to meet LEED standards
• Meters on private wells
• Strict ordinances on septic tanks often
  prohibits them
• Increased setbacks in rural coastal areas
• Wetlands mitigation

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• LOCAL AGENDA 21 COMP PLAN FOR THE ROLE OF
  BUSINESS INDUSTRY
• Public/Private Partnerships (subsidies, tax
  breaks, insider privilege)
• Green Marketplace - Carbon Credits, water
  credits, riparian habitat credits, conservation
  banking credits, wetlands mitigation
• LEED approved building materials
• Energy Star Appliances and Heating/Air
  Conditioning
• Forestry strict limits on forestry
  preservation of forests
• Agriculture restricts what and how much you
  can grow.
• Aquaculture restrictions or elimination of
  commercial fishing

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• TWO QUESTIONS
• What decisions are left that we don't need
  government permission for on our land?
• How does this differ from Socialism?
• Socialism is defined as
• A political and economic theory that advocates
  that the means of production, distribution, and
  exchange should be owned or regulated by
  government

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• CONSEQUENCES Growth management (Smart Growth)
  
• Redistribution of wealth, tax liability, and
  resources
• Leaves taxpayers on the hook for grants,
  subsidies, tax breaks, and other incentives.
• Creates monopolies kills jobs through
  Public/Private Partnerships LEED standards.
• Makes home ownership less affordable increasing
  the cost of homes to up to 4
• times what is considered affordable by standard
  qualifying lending practices.
• Higher rate of foreclosures
• Increase in unoccupied housing stock
• Extinguishes the right of rural landowners to
  ever develop their land
• Discourages economic growth(Government
  manipulated market, picking the winners
• losers in business)

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THE EXCUSE Global Warming/Climate Change RIO
DECLARATION 15 Precautionary Principle. In
order to protect the environment, the
precautionary approach shall be widely applied
by States according to their capabilities. Where
there are threats of serious or irreversible
damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall
not be used as a reason for postponing
cost-effective measures to prevent environmental
degradation. (Global Warming)
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• How do they do it?
• What if you wanted to eliminate candy
  manufacturers
• from the world? How would you do it?
• Which would be easier Banning candy or
  promoting
• healthy teeth?
• And if we were going to promote healthy teeth,
• shouldnt we also promote general health and
  avoidance
• of diabetes?

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• How would you do it?
• Get a NGO like the American Dentistry
  Association on your side
• Create a health sustainability coordinator that
  belongs to an
• international organization that promotes the
  benefits of a
• candy-free society
• Pass legislation that requires schools and
  households to use
• healthy diet templates
• Require schools to teach the evils of candy

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• How would you do it?
• Explain how the consumption of Candy consumes an
  
• excessive portion of the worlds sugar cane
  supplies.
• Publish selective articles proving that candy
  is harmful
• to your health
• Endorse organizations that promote healthy
  eating.
• Offer smart sugar-free growing awards
• Pass resolutions that argue, in the absence of
  positive
• proof, we should err on the side of caution and
  avoid candy.

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• How do they do it?
• Get non-candy companies to sell alternatives
• Offer grants to companies that manufacture
  healthy
• desserts.
• Offer grants to schools, communities, and
  businesses
• that provide healthy desserts in lieu of candy
• Promote technology that would monitor sugar
  consumption

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• How would you do it?
• Require a transfer of funds from rich countries
  to poor
• countries in order to help wean them off of
  sugar-based
• foods.
• Have government create dietary commissions
  staffed with
• anti-sugar political appointees.
• Require all schools and businesses to adopt a
  sugar-free
• diet planning template.
• Require all members of the dietary commission be
  trained
• in proper diets

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• How would Michael Moore or Al Gore do it?
• Produce a movie about corruption at Hersheys
  Chocolate,
• Candy and Me
• Produce a movie denigrating the system that
  enables us to
• have chocolate in every household, Capitalism
  and Candy-
• How greed is killing America
• Produce a movie on the evils of cavities,
• An Inconvenient Tooth

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• And finally -
• Create a false moral equivalency if you do not
  support the
• banning of candy, you must be cold, callous,
  selfish, and in
• favor of harming children.
• Declare the debate is over. Sugar must go!
• Blame the poor health of children worldwide on
  capitalism
• the wasteful exporting of sugar and wasteful
  sugar
• consumption habits of wealthy nations.

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GLOBAL TO LOCAL PLAN
Comprehensive Plan of Action
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Sustainable Development - Control over every
aspect of human life. You have a right to own
property OR YOU BECOME PROPERTY!
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