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)EPA is one of the founding partners of the Smart Growth Network. The full list of partners includes:

 
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