Slide 1

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska
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Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona
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Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO
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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 2

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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

Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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











Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 3

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO

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
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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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










Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 4

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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


Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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


Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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

Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 5

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County



























Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa



























Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


























Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 6

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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
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




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



Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 7

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County












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











Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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

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








Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


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

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













Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 8

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO

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
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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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










Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 9

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County


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

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




Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa


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





Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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
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


Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 10

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County



























Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa



























Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


























Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 11

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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
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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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




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
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

Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 12

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County












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












Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa










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

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











Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia







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













Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 13

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona
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







Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO

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
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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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








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Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 14

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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
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



Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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

Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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
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

Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 15

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County



























Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa










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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO

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
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





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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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











Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 16

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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











Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 17

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County












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













Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa



























Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


























Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 18

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska
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Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona
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Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO
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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 19

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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

Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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

Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 20

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona
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






Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO

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









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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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











Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 21

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 22

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County



























Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa



























Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


























Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 23

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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
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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO















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




Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 24

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County


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
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




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











Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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

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








Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


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






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





Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 25

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona
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







Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO

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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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
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
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Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 26

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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


Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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

Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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

Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute














Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 27

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska





Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona









Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County



























Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa



























Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia


























Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO





















Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.


Slide 28

Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights

UN Agenda 21 – A Global to Local Action Plan,

…called Sustainable Development

Property Rights Matter

Without property rights there
is no freedom or liberty.

“unalienable” right to “life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
- Declaration of Independence

Property Rights Matter

“No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
- U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

What is “Sustainable Development?”

“Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs.”
-1987 Brundtland Report to UN,
Our Common Future

“Poverty is a major cause and effect of global
environmental problems.”

UN Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 - 1992

June 1992, George H.W. Bush signs Agreement in Rio to
implement Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in U.S.

June 1993, Bill Clinton signs EO creating the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development to begin
implementation in federal agencies.

1997, The U.S. Conference of Mayors creates the Joint Center
for Sustainable Communities.

2001, The National Governor’s Association endorses Smart
Growth advancing statewide Sustainable Development.
June 2011, Barack Obama signs EO creating WH Rural
Communities Act enabling implementation of Sustainable
Development in 16% of U.S.

J. Gary Lawrence
- Advisor to Pres. Clinton’s PCSD
- Urban Strategies Leader, Arup Consulting
- U.S. Smart Growth Leadership Council

“Participating in a UN 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
“The Future of Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” – The Millennium Papers

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Uses Fuzzy Names

Smart growth
Smart streets
Visioning projects
Consensus
Urbanist communities
Public Private Partnerships
Historic preservation
Sustainable communities

Open spaces
Walkable communities
Sustainable [your state or community]
Environmental justice
Multi-use dwellings
Greenways
High density urban development units
Buffer zones

“States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by
appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Principle 26, UN Rio Declaration, Agenda 21

Core UN Political Philosophy
U.S. Constitution and
Bill of Rights

UN Declaration of
Human Rights

Amendment V:

Article 17 Sec 2:

“nor shall private property
be taken for public use
without just
compensation”

“Property shall not be
arbitrarily taken”

Man’s rights are inherent
to his nature as man. As
such, they are
unalienable.

Man’s rights are granted
by other men. As such,
they can be taken away by
men.

Which Philosophy of Rights?
Nature
Source

Individual Rights
US Declaration of
Independence

Community Rights
UN Declaration of Human
Rights

Purpose of Government

Protect the natural or
unalienable rights of each
individual.

Control the individual for the
greater good of the global
community.

“That all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable
rights…”

“Rights and freedoms may in no
case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the
United Nations…”

You are born with rights.
Government exists to protect
them.

Government grants, restricts or
withdraws your rights according to
its needs.

You and the product of your
labor belong to you.

You and the product of your labor
belong to the community.

Summary

3 E’s

“Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”

Social Equity

Economic
Prosperity

Ecological
Integrity

Social Equity

 Laws coerce individuals to
give up personal wants for
needs of the community

 Member ICLEI Exec. Committee
 Clerk of the Courts – Miami-Dade County
 Chair Climate Change Advisory Task Force
 Keynote Speaker at ICLEI 2010

“individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective”
in the process of implementing Sustainable Development.
- Harvey Ruvin

Economic
Prosperity

 Redistribution of
American wealth
 Free market replaced by
public/private
partnerships

 Secretary General UN Agenda 21 Rio 1992

“...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class –
involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air
conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Maurice Strong – Opening speech at Agenda 21

Economic
Prosperity

Transfer of Wealth

Agenda 21 Preamble –
“The developmental and environmental objectives of agenda 21 will require a
substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing
countries.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , Article 8 –
“…equity will be achieved through implementation of the international
economic order …and through transfers of resources to developing countries…”

Economic
Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships

PPP
Tax breaks
Ltd. liabilities
Easy Fed. access
Monopolies
Subsidies
Large contracts

Ecological
Integrity

 Individual rights
subordinated to nature

Nature Over Man

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development –

“Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.”
-Principle 1
“To achieve sustainable development…States should reduce and eliminate
unsustainable patterns of production and consumption…”
- Principle 8

Sustainable Development Process
Planning
Group
ICLEI/NGO

Local
Committee
persons

Survey

Filter

Stakeholders

Invite
stakeholders

Visioning
(Consensus)

Filter

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Implementation
committees

A treasure trove of boilerplate solutions

Alabama
 Birmingham
 Huntsville

Alaska
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Fairbanks
Homer
Juneau
Sitka

Arizona
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Chandler
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Maricopa
Peoria
Phoenix
Tempe
Tuscon

Arkansas
 Fayetteville
 North Little Rock
 Pulaski County

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Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Merced
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Milpitas
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Murrieta
Napa

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Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Ventura
San Carlos
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara
Santa Clarita
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma city
Sonoma County
South Gate
Temecula
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia

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Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Plantation
Sarasota
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
Volusia County
West Palm Beach

Funding Sources are Impressive
National NGO
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Akron Zoological Park
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Atlantic Center for the Environment
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History, NY
Center for Environmental Legal Studies
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Plant Conservation
Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park
Chicago Zoological Society
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Network
Environmental Defense Fund
Foundation for Environmental Security and
Sustainability
George Wright Society
Global Institute of Sustainability
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
National Heritage Institute

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Ocean Conservancy
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Zoological Park
The Heinz Center
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wildlife Society
United Nations Foundation
Wildlife Alliance
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Wildlife Fund – US
Zoological Society of San Diego

Affiliates
 US Department of State
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
 US Department of Commerce
 US Department of Agriculture
 Forest Service
 US Department of the Interior

Communities are pushing back

5 Steps to Protect Your Rights
1. Refuse federal or state money for new Sustainable Development programs and
transition out of existing ones.

2. Avoid partnerships with the federal government, NGOs, foundations, and
corporations that advance the anti-liberty Sustainable Development agenda.
3. Understand your role in the community as a public official: to administer
government in a manner that protects individual liberty and ensures equal justice.
4. Know and apply the US and your state’s Constitution to which you swore an oath.
Pay particular attention to Article 1, Section 8 and the 9th, 10th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution. These address the limits on federal power
and on the states’ police power.
5. Hold all government employees accountable to honor their signed oath to protect
our individual rights.

Conclusion

Our local communities are in peril because a small group seeks to convince us that
unless we surrender our property and freedoms; unless we subsume our individual
rights to the good of the community, the planet will not survive.
Yet, this is a false choice. For over 200 years Americans have protected our planet,
our nation and our liberties. As communities, we can pull together to create our
own plans to improve the environment without the control of international groups
and the seductive lure of easy federal grants.
Together, we can save our environment, and keep our rights and freedoms. That is
the real choice.