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https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth

WHO FUNDS UN AGENDA 21/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?


TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PAGE FOR A PARTIAL LIST
Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook Model Statues for Planning and the Management
of Change was funded by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban
Development (the lead federal agency); Federal Highway Administration (US
Department of Transportation); US Environmental Protection Agency; the Federal
Transit Administration (DOT); the Rural Economic and Community Development
Administration (US Department of Agriculture). All of these agencies were members
of the President's Council on Sustainable Development which ran from 1993-1999.

Private funders included the Siemens Corporation; Henry M. Jackson Foundation;


Annie E. Casey Foundation; and the American Planning Association. These private
organizations promote smart growth.

Siemens, for instance, benefits from the development of the 'smart grid' and is a
key private for-profit corporation for solar, biomass, and other subsidized power
generation. This huge multi-national corporation is involved in health care,
building systems, financing, communications and more. Siemens is a German company
that was nearly bankrupt until Hitler supplied free slave labor and money for
technological development. Siemens USA has revenue of over $20 Billion. They also
just appointed Michael Kruklinski Head of Siemens Real Estate for the Americas. In
this role he'll oversee all operations for Siemens Real Estate in the U.S. He also
is on the NEW YORK CITY REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION BOARD.
http://www.usa.siemens.com/answers/en/
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation is a major grant funder. Their involvement on an
international scale is detailed here:
The Foundation seeks to leverage its influence and effectiveness by convening and
participating actively in groups of like-minded funders to discuss topics of mutual
interest. Examples of funder partners or networks follow:

International Human Rights Funders Group


The Jackson Foundation is a founding member and former steering committee member of
the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG), an association of grantmakers
dedicated to supporting efforts to protect human rights on both national and
international scales. Members meet at least twice yearly to discuss issues of
common concern in human rights philanthropy and reach out to potential funders to
attract greater dollars to the human rights field. IHRFG also seeks to inform
public policy on a national level. (text in italics is directly from the Jackson
Foundation website)

The Funders' Network for Smart Growth


The Jackson Foundation is a founding member of the Funders' Network for Smart
Growth and Livable Communities, a coalition that seeks to strengthen and expand
philanthropic leadership and grantmaking that improves communities through better
development decisions and growth policies. It brings together foundations,
nonprofit organizations and other partners to address a range of environmental,
social, and economic problems. (Text in italics is from The Funders' Network for
Smart Growth website)

The Funders Network membership list is vast. Annie E. Casey Foundation is just one
of many members. Read the membership list here:
http://www.fundersnetwork.org/connect
We suggest that you look carefully at the members of the Funders' Network for Smart
Growth and Livable Communities to see where the UN Agenda 21/Sustainable
Development money trail leads. Money and power flow back and forth along these
channels. Enterprise Community Development and LISC, for example, are on the list.
They are for-profit affordable housing developers who benefit hugely from subsidies
in smart growth and redevelopment (urban renewal) zones. Wal-Mart is a partner.
The Orton Family Foundation is a partner. You'll find over 100 foundations and
corporations on the list. Take a look. and look at this too, as an example of who
funds the Smart Growth conferences.

On the issue of devaluation of property through regulatory means, we find it


reprehensible that counties and cities recognize that development rights have value
when they're being purchased in conservation easements, but they have no value when
they're being taken away through regulations. You won't find many General or
Comprehensive Plans that don't embed sustainable communities strategies in their
elements. Most states require it by law through their legislation. These
policies fund and support UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.

More and more non-profit organizations are being created, fragmenting from others,
spinning off and creating more non-profits. Funding comes from state and federal
grants, from your taxes and fees, private grants, donations (tax write-offs), and
from lawsuits. You'll find the League of Women Voters advocating for Smart Growth.
The Lung Association lobbies for Smart Growth. The National Association of
Realtors advocates for Smart Growth. The Chamber of Commerce does too. So does the
AFL-CIO. Are your dues or professional fees paying for UN Agenda 21/Sustainable
Development. Are you volunteering for a group supporting UN Agenda 21/Sustainable
Development?

SPEAK OUT. REFUSE TO PAY OR PAY UNDER PROTEST, AND TELL THE
MEMBERSHIP WHY YOU ARE TAKING ACTION.

Here's a light rail train made by .... Siemens. High cost trains to nowhere...you
vote for that 1/2 cent sales tax increase and you pay and pay.
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ICLEI--International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives: Funders


From the website: iclei.org
Generous Giving. Sustained Growth
ICLEI is able to provide best-in-class service to our members and elevate local
climate action and sustainability to remarkable levels only through the generous
support of the following private foundations, federal agencies and other entities:

Boone Family Foundation


ESRI
Houston Endowment
Meadows Foundation
Oak Hill Fund
Rauch Foundation
Seattle Foundation
Siemens
The Cadmus Group Incorporated-Arlington
The Energy Foundation
The Kaiser Foundation
The Kendeda Fund
The Kresge Foundation
The Overbrook Foundation
The San Diego Foundation
The Summit Foundation
The Surdna Foundation
The Turner Foundation
The University of Michigan, School of Public Health (Ann Arbor)
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Green Building Council
Waste Management

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PLANNING GRANTS

What do HUD, EPA, and DOT have in common besides being federal agencies? They were
all on the President's Council on Sustainable Development. What else? They form
the Partnership for Sustainable Communities and give grants for 'sustainability
planning.' HUD gave out $100 million in Sustainable Communities Planning Grants in
2010. These grants are for planning only. This money doesn't build anything or
help anyone in your city but the planners and consultants. The money goes for
visioning meetings--for propaganda and indoctrination. Support your city council
and board of supervisor members who vote against taking these grants.

WHO WAS ON THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (1993-1999)?


http://clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/Members/index.html

M E M B E R S

Ray C. Anderson, Chairman, President and CEO, Interface, Inc.


Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute
John H. Adams, Executive Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Aida Alvarez, Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration
Bruce Babbitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
David T. Buzzelli, Director and Senior Consultant, The Dow Chemical Company
Andrew Cuomo, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
William Daley, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Executive Director, Women's Environment and Development
Organization
E. Linn Draper, Jr., Chairman, American Electric Power
Randall Franke, Commissioner, Marion County, Oregon
Dan Glickman, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Samuel C. Johnson, Chairman, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Fred D. Krupp, Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund
Kenneth L. Lay, Chairman and CEO, Enron Corporation
Harry J. Pearce, Vice Chairman, General Motors Corporation
Steve Percy, Chairman, CEO, BP Amoco Inc.
Michelle Perrault, International Vice President, Sierra Club
Bill Richardson, Secretary U.S. Department of Energy
Richard W. Riley, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Susan Savage, Mayor, City of Tulsa, Oklahoma
John C. Sawhill, President, The Nature Conservancy
Rodney Slater, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
Theodore Strong, Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

D. James Baker, Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA, U.S. Department of
Commerce
Sherri Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security),U.S.
Department of Defense
Richard E. Rominger, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Richard Barth, President, Chairman, and CEO (retired), Ciba-Geigy Corp.


Richard Clarke, Chairman and CEO (retired), Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Jay D. Hair, President, World Conservation Union

George Frampton, Acting Chair, Council on Environmental Quality


Martin Spitzer

Regional Smart Growth Organizations (from the EPA website--CLICK HERE FOR MORE)
1000 Friends of Florida
1000 Friends of Iowa
1000 Friends of Maryland
1000 Friends of Oregon
1000 Friends of Wisconsin
10000 Friends of Pennsylvania
Campaign for Sensible Growth (Chicago area)
Environment Colorado
Envision Minnesota
Futurewise (Seattle, WA)
The Georgia Conservancy
Greater Ohio
Greenbelt Alliance (San Francisco Bay Area)
Grow Smart Rhode Island
GrowSmart Maine
Gulf Coast Institute (Houston, TX)
Hawaii's Thousand Friends
Idaho Smart Growth
Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Michigan Environmental Council
Montana Smart Growth Coalition
New Jersey Future
North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Piedmont Environmental Council (Virginia)
Regional Plan Association (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York)
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council (Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin, and Palm
Beach Counties, Florida)
Smart Growth Vermont
EPA is one of the founding partners of the Smart Growth Network. The full list of
partners includes:

American Farmland Trust


American Institute of Architects, Center for Communities by Design
American Planning Association
American Public Health Association
American Society of Landscape Architects
Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Cascade Land Conservancy
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Congress for the New Urbanism
Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance
Enterprise
Environmental Finance Center Network
Environmental Law Institute
Florida Department of Health
Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Institute of Transportation Engineers
International City/County Management Association
Local Government Commission
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
NACo Center for Sustainable Communities
National Association of Conservation Districts
National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals
National Association of Realtors
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education
National Multi Housing Council
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Natural Resources Defense Council
Northeast-Midwest Institute
Project for Public Spaces
Rails-To-Trails Conservancy
Scenic America
Smart Growth America
State of Maryland
Surface Transportation Policy Project's Transportation Action Network
Sustainable Community Development Group
The Conservation Fund
Trust for Public Land
Urban Land Institute
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Virginia Tech Metropolitan Institute

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