About Smart Growth Development decisions affect many aspects of people's everyday lives - their homes, their health, the schools their children attend, the taxes they pay, their daily commute, the natural environmental around them, and economic opportunity in their community. Smart Growth is an overall approach of development and conservation strategies that help protect our health and natural environment and make our communities more attractive, economically stronger, socially diverse, and resilient to climate change. Market Common in Arlington, Virginia is a walkable, mixed-use development with access to public transit. Based on the experience of communities around the nation that have used smart growth approaches to create and maintain great neighborhoods, the Smart Growth Network developed a set of ten (10) basic principles to guide smart growth strategies: Mix land uses. Take advantage of compact building design. Create a range of housing opportunities and choices. Create walkable neighborhoods. Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place. Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas. Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities. Provide a variety of transportation choices. Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost effective. Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions. https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/about-smart-growth Transportation Energy Futures Project | https://www.energy.gov/eere/analysis/articles/transportation-energy-futures-snapshot Regionalism: Definition and Examples - ThoughtCo https://www.thoughtco.com/regionalism-definition-and-examples-5206335 America 2050 - Detailed Plans All SMART CITIES & 11 Planned Mega-Regions The Wildlands Project - “Manhattanizing America” All Of The Circles On The Map Represent Planned "Smart Cities" AKA Digital Prisons. The Colored Area Represent Inter-locked Mega-Regions Designated For "Human" Habitats. Everything Else You See On The Map Is To Be Given To Nature And Humans Removed. "Leave Room For Nature" "Leave Room For Nature" Full Resolution Map https://i.postimg.cc/4yDPM7yb/megaregions.png ‘The Agenda 21 Depopulation of Rural Areas - Will Give Stalin-Like Control Over Food In America https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-agenda-21-depopulation-of-rural-areas-will-give-obama-stalin-like-control-over-food/ Agenda 21 Population Control Map for USA http://www.itsuandi.org/itsui/downloads/Itsui_Materials/Agenda-21-Population-Control-Map-for-USA.pdf America 2050: The Agenda 21 Depopulation of Rural Areas https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/america-2050-the-agenda-21-depopulation-of-rural-areas-has-begun/ Most of America’s rural areas are doomed to decline https://theconversation.com/most-of-americas-rural-areas-are-doomed-to-decline-115343 The plan is called America 2050 and the concept is based upon the creation of megacities. America 2050 : an infrastructure vision for 21st century America https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/harvested/2008-America-2050-an-infrastructure-vision-for-21st-century-America.pdf In order for the megacities concept, which is well underway, to come to fruition, American suburbs and rural areas must be completely depopulated. the 11 mega-regions are already in place southern ca long beach california, los vegas, austin tx. Beyond Traffic 2045 https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/BeyondTraffic_tagged_508_final.pdf THE LONG-TERM STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES 2 THE LONG-TERM STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES create high-quality jobs, improve public health in every community, and spur investments https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/US-Long-Term-Strategy.pdf This will come as a shock to many reading this because they did not learn of these events from FOX or CNN. However, in actuality, the process of moving the United States towards a complete Agenda 21 style of total urbanization has already commenced and it began nearly 20 years ago. In the case of total urbanization, the United States is in the process of dividing the country into 11 large densely populated urban centers. The concept, will explore this “end-game” strategy of the globalists which will depopulate the America’s suburbs and and rural areas. The concept is called megacities and the framework was laid in 1994, when the United States became official participants in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was a ‘liberalized’ trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Under NAFTA, farmers’ income in all three countries has plummeted and millions of small farmers have lost their land, while agribusiness corporations (i.e. large government subsidized corporate farms) have reaped huge profits. Subsequently, NAFTA has had three dramatic effects on farmers in North America and all three effects further the cause dense urbanization as outlined in Agenda 21 documents.’ Whether it is China or the U.S., the United Nations Agenda 21 urbanization policies are designed for the purpose of herding people into dense urban areas for reasons of control and the primary method of control has to do with dominating food production. Through the collectivization of the food production, the Chinese government is working towards gaining complete control over all food in order to control the people. On an ever increasing basis, NAFTA is providing the U.S. government with the exact same ability. Therefore, the third draconian impact of NAFTA is that it has led to even more nefarious free trade agreements and executive orders which led to the loss of control for local communities over their own food supply. Underlying the World Trade Organization, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA which has now morphed into the Organization of American States), and the Central American Free Trade Agreement is the philosophy that all food (i.e. from basic grains, meat, fruits and vegetables) should be exclusively produced for international export. This is a drastic departure from the time honored practice where each country produced the majority of food its citizens needed on local, small farms and only traded in certain products that could not be successfully grown locally. If anyone wonders where this is headed, we only have to look to Africa for the answer. The very first great wave of a NAFTA style of globalization in agriculture took place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as global corporations forced local farmers to give up local food production, and shifted production to plantations using enslaved Indigenous and African labor to grow the luxury crops of coffee, sugar, bananas, and cocoa for export to the colonizing countries. If the changing nature of food production in Africa are not enough to raise the level of concern for most, perhaps a quick history lesson will jolt the more complacent among you into a state of full awareness. Josef Stalin engaged in his own Soviet style Holocaust when, in 1932 and 1933, and estimated six to 20 million people in the Ukraine died from starvation when Stalin implemented his prescription of “hope and change” policies in order to eliminate the Ukrainian’s desire for becoming their own nation-state. Upon assuming power, the Stalinist Communist regime rapidly nationalized the food industry and forced all of the region’s farms into collectives. Thus, Stalin’s version of the Holocaust came to fruition in what history has dubbed, the “Holdomor,” in which millions perished in only a two year period when the Soviet government began to exterminate the Ukrainian population by taking control of food and food production. The large corporate collectivization of food is precisely the same thing that is presently happening in the United States under Obama. The lesson here is, if the government controls the food, the government controls the people. Almost all Americans know about the United Nations, but few know about Agenda 21, or the US government’s implementation of UN policies into our government and society. The UN issued several policies at the 1992 Earth Summit, one of which was the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Compliance with this UN policy is being driven and managed by the Wildlands Network which shares the same goals as the CBD; to set aside half the land in America for animals. https://www.cbd.int/ The process of returning land to its wild state is referred to as “re-wilding.” Wildlands are created by buying land, reducing or eliminated human activities and access to the land, and then putting buffer zones around them. Then another wildland is created nearby, and they connect them with more land purchases. This accumulation of land begins to form corridors, and the corridors then connect to one of the four North American Wildways (migration routes). This project is supported and managed by eco-socialists like the Sierra Club, and The Nature Conservancy The ultimate goal is to erase any sign of human activity (houses, roads, trucks, etc.); therefore, humans will be pushed out of wildland areas. Mr. Foremen, a former board member of the Sierra Club, and The Nature Conservancy stated, “My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with its full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” Rewilding (conservation biology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding_(conservation_biology) Guiding principles for rewilding https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.13730 Rewilding https://consbio.org/publications/rewilding/ ONE WORLD ONE VISION 2050 "We cannot leap into world government in one quick step … [T]he precondition for eventual globalization - genuine globalization - is progressive regionalization. Because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units." Zbigniew Brzezinski , former US National Security Adviser (1977-1981) 1995 https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-national-security-advisers-of-the-United-States-1788874 Power and principle : memoirs of the national security adviser, 1977-1981 https://archive.org/details/powerprincipleme0000brze Spreading the wealth : how Obama is robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities https://archive.org/details/spreadingwealthh0000kurt Obama's Three-Tiered Wealth Redistribution Plan: Individual, Regional, and Global https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/08/obamas_three-tiered_wealth_redistribution_plan_individual_regional_and_global.html SPREADING THE WEALTH: THE EFFECT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND RACE/ETHNICITY ACROSS HOUSEHOLDS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ON CITY CRIME TRAJECTORIES* https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/SPREADING-THE-WEALTH%3A-THE-EFFECT-OF-THE-OF-INCOME-Hipp/776f2421dc08b59eaac3c42a7cd9cdfd11a6cc56 Agenda 21: Multiple States Passing Laws To Protect Property Rights, But Few Americans Are Even Aware Of The Mounting Threat Against Them https://preparednesshub.com/agenda-21-multiple-states-passing-laws-to-protect-property-rights-but-few-americans-are-even-aware-of-the-mounting-threat-against-them/ Spreading the Wealth Fiscal instruments can reduce inequality, but some yield short-term results while others bear fruit over the long term https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/03/pdf/bourguignon.pdf SPREADING THE WEALTH AROUND: REFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY JOE THE PLUMBER https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15846/w15846.pdf Campus Free-Speech Legislation: History, Progress, and Problems https://www.aaup.org/file/Campus_Free_Speech_2018.pdf Spreading the Wealth David Dollar and Aart Kraay https://www.jstor.org/stable/20033007 “Manhattanizing America” - The Obama Plan The Agenda 21 proponents are so brazen that the existence of this scheme has even become part of the mainstream news. The following video contains a Fox News report on the very urban management principles described in the previous paragraphs. https://youtu.be/jB2fexv5LDE The 11 Emerging Mega-Regions Of The United States https://brilliantmaps.com/usa-mega-regions/ Agenda 21 The United Nations Plan Of Action For The 21st Century This plan is being implemented into every nation on Earth that is a member of the UN. They all signed up for it. Even America... But the constitution says... 300 Page PDF http://www.itsuandi.org/itsui/downloads/Itsui_Materials/Agenda-21-Population-Control-Map-for-USA.pdf PRESIDENT CLINTON'S COUNCIL ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (1993-1999) https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/PCSD/factrep.html Was Removed From The Internet Sometime After Feb 2017 President's Council on Sustainable Development https://clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov/PCSD/Overview/ President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/PCSD/ This Agenda 21 plan was put into action by Clinton after the 1992 Rio summit. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992 https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992 America 2050 Website - Archived National Climate Task Force “THIS IS A CASE WHERE CONSCIENCE AND CONVENIENCE CROSS PATHS, WHERE DEALING WITH THIS EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE PLANET AND INCREASING OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY ARE ONE AND THE SAME. WHEN I THINK OF CLIMATE CHANGE … I THINK OF JOBS.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate/ America 2050 is a project of "Regional Plan Association" https://infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RPA-Getting-Infrastructure-Going.pdf http://www.america2050.org/ 11 Mega-Regions - 2050 https://brilliantmaps.com/usa-mega-regions/ RPA’s research—guided by The Fourth Regional Plan https://rpa.org/work/reports?series=america-2050 The Fourth Regional Plan Making the Regions Work for All of Us http://fourthplan.org/ For 100 Years, "RPA" - "Regional Plan Association" Has Worked To Create A More Equitable, Healthy, Prosperous And Sustainable Region(s). The America 2050 Strategy will provide a framework for the public and private policies and investments needed to accommodate the nation’s growth in the 21st century. This framework is urgently needed in a time of rapid technological, geopolitical, demographic, and environmental change. As never before, the nation’s economic prospects are threatened by global competitors, all of whom have created long-range strategies for growth and competitiveness. In the face of these challenges, America is flying blind. We have no national strategy to sustain our success in the face of this competition. Producing world-class research since 1922, RPA has more than 400 original reports and white papers in its digital library. Our reports have guided policymakers, communities, businesses, and civic organizations in the tri-state region for nearly 100 years. https://rpa.org/ WILDWAYS--THE WILDERNESS PROJECT: SEE THE MAPS... Creating landscapes for life Humans need highways, wildlife needs Wildways https://extension.usu.edu/pdfs/sustainability/files/CreatingLandscapesForWildlife.pdf Redefining Wilderness: How Designers are Grappling with the Radical Interconnectedness of Nature and Culture https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2022/05/designing-for-a-new-wilderness/ ----------- MEGA-REGIONS: Source document at the Federal Highways Administration website. Maps, federal strategy, analysis. Megaregions: Literature Review of the Implications for U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Transportation Planning https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50811 'Megaregions and America's Future.' https://fotac.gsd.harvard.edu/listen/fritz-steiner/ United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to be held in Quito, Ecuador, on 17-20 https://www.un.org/en/conferences/habitat/quito2016 World regions in the SDG framework of the United Nations https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-regions-sdg-united-nation Ranked: The Megaregions Driving the Global Economy https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-megaregions.../ Trans-American Passenger Network - 2050 Infographic https://avalonlibrary.net/Agenda_21/Megaregion_maps_%28US%29/America2050_Intercity_Passenger_Recs.pdf Trans-American Freight Network - 2050 Infographic /https://avalonlibrary.net/Agenda_21/Megaregion_maps_%28US%29/2050_Map_Freight_Network.pdf Megaregions, Large Landscapes, and America’s Great Outdoors: a Planning Synthesis Wildlandsand Woodlands Partnership Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA December 8, 2010 https://www.wildlandsandwoodlands.org/sites/default/files/Armando%20Carbonell%20W&WP%2012-8-10%20Meeting%20Presentation.pdf The Challenge of Transportation Planning for Megaregions https://www.volpe.dot.gov/sites/volpe.dot.gov/files/docs/The_Challenge_of_Transportation_Planning_for_Megaregions.pdf Underperforming Counties Infographic Cascadia Megaregion and Its Environs Washington State & Vancouver, Canada Infographic The Cascadia Megaregion: Facts and Figures https://cascadiabioregion.org/the-cascadia-megaregion-facts-and-figures America 2050 An Infrastructure Vision for the 21st Century https://rpa.org/work/reports/an-infrastructure-vision-for-the-21st-century President Biden Announces $8.2 Billion in New Grants for High-Speed Rail and Pipeline of Projects Nationwide https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/president-biden-announces-82-billion-new-grants-high-speed-rail-and-pipeline-projects FACT SHEET: CLIMATE ACTION AT THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2022-11/COP%20Fact%20Sheet_new%2011_17_22FINAL.pdf Expanding Passenger Rail Service on America’s Growing Corridors States and Amtrak working together for new and improved passenger rail service through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act https://texasrailadvocates.org/share/swrc2022/slides/ray-lang-amtrak.pdf National Rail Corridors - 2050 Infographic https://brilliantmaps.com/usa-mega-regions/ America 2050 High Speed Rail in America https://rpa.org/work/reports/high-speed-rail-in-america Major North American Rail Corridors Improved since 2000 https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter5/rail-transportation-pipelines/rail-corridors-north-america-improvement/ High-Speed Rail Timeline https://railroads.dot.gov/passenger-rail/high-speed-rail/high-speed-rail-timeline Future of Rail 2050 https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/future-of-rail-2050 National Rail Plan Vision – 2030 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1806617 Minister of Railways inaugurates Website of National Rail Plan, 2030 https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/prd/PR/MR_Inaug_Website_08122016.pdf Regional Passenger Rail Services - Infographics Northeast https://www.railpassengers.org/site/assets/files/3433/nec.pdf Rail - ASCE's 2021 Infrastructure Report Card https://infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rail-2021.pdf Amtrak Five-Year Service Line Plans Fiscal Years 2020–2025 (Base + Five-Year Strategic Plan) https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/businessplanning/Amtrak- New Strategies for Regional Economic Development 36 Page PDF https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/44931258/new-strategies-for-regional-economic-development-america-2050 Regional Integration, Economic Development and Global Governance https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781849809146/9781849809146.00008.xml An Infrastructure Vision for 21st Century America 24 Page PDF https://rpa.org/work/reports/an-infrastructure-vision-for-the-21st-century https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/harvested/2008-America-2050-an-infrastructure-vision-for-21st-century-America.pdf High-Speed Rail Plans in America https://web.archive.org/.../high-speed-rail-in-america.html And 56 Page PDF Report https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R40973.pdf America 2050: Transportation Maps 50% live in cities now and 75% will in 2050. America 2050 works to confront the infrastructure issues associated with that growth and suggest ways it could improve. For five years, we've created new maps based upon the needs of the project. This is a sampling of maps that show how we've represented some of the specific facets of the complex and large-scale issues facing American megaregions . https://www.behance.net/.../America-2050-Transportation-Maps Nazarene Presence in the Cascadia Megaregion (1905-1915) https://www.professorprice.net/blog/nazarene-presence-in-the-cascadia-megaregion-1905-1915 City of Vancouver needs to focus more on growing the economy, says chief planner https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-economic-growth-2019 Obama's Strong Cities Network & ICLEI For World Governance OMG...It Is Real... Did Your Governor or Mayor Sell-Out Your City And People To The United Nations And One World Government ? Mine Was...Find Out Here: It Is Real And International, Not Just In America... Defund The Police Is Not Just Antifa and BLM...It Is A Globalist Organization...For World Governance And Anti-Extremist Police Force!!! ---------- ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (or simply ICLEI) is an international non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable development. ICLEI provides technical consulting to local governments to meet sustainability objectives. Founded in 1990 and formerly known as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, the international association was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at its inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York in September 1990. As of 2020, more than 1,750 cities, towns, counties, and their associations in 126 countries are a part of the ICLEI network. As of 2021, ICLEI has more than 20 offices around the world. ----------- Do you remember Obama's "Strong Cities" Network Intiative ? The Strong Cities Network was written into law by President Barack Obama on July 11th, 2011. His Executive Order is linked here: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/11/obama-administration-launches-strong-cities-strong-communities-support-l Why President Obama Is Taking Steps to Demilitarize Local Police Forces May 18, 2015 Today, President Obama traveled to Camden, New Jersey -- a city that has struggled with one of the nation's highest violent crime rates. Dedicated to building a stronger, safer community, the Camden County Police Department and the community have worked together to help police do their jobs more safely, to reduce crime, and to create more economic opportunity in communities that have been saddled with a history of isolation. As President Obama said, it will take a concerted, "all-hands-on-deck" effort to change the odds for these communities: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/18/why-president-obama-taking-steps-demilitarize-local-police-forces What is the Strong Cities Network? Launched at the United Nations in September 2015, the Strong Cities Network (SCN) is the first-ever global network of mayors, municipal-level policymakers and practitioners united in building social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism in all its forms. Led by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and comprised of more than 140 cities across 45 countries, the SCN builds collaboration between mayors, political actors and frontline teams to tackle polarization, hate and violence in local communities in every major global region. The Global Parliament of Mayors is a governance body of, by and for mayors from all continents with a vision to the world in which mayors, their cities and networks are equal partners in building global governance. The SCN’s Fundamental Principles? 1. A commitment to address violent extremism in all its forms; 2. A recognition that violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnicity group; 3. A commitment to work in partnership with local communities on an inclusive, collaborative, and non-discriminatory basis and in compliance with international human rights standards. https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/en/what-we-do/ ------ The Strong Cities Network is led, managed and facilitated by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). For 15 years, ISD have responded to the rising challenge of extremist movements and the ideologies that underpin them, delivering cutting-edge programs built from world-leading expertise in communications and technology, grassroots networks, knowledge and research, and policy advice. What We Do The SCN works to prevent the challenges of hate, polarization and extremism by identifying and addressing the local drivers behind these global threats. Whether through intensive capacity-building projects or standalone research and analysis, we work on a diverse set of members’ needs to build evidence-based policy and globally informed local practice. DESIGN Policy & Strategy: Defining a local role in responding to hate, polarisation and extremism often presents unique challenges. Working closely with our members, the SCN helps establish a local mandate, identifying the practical infrastructure and policy frameworks they need. To develop effective prevention strategies, we connect local officials to their counterparts in other cities, translating what has worked elsewhere to their own context. https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/en/what-we-do/ Strong Towns Build Your Strong Town Thousands of people across North America are choosing to make their cities stronger and more financially resilient. It's time to build prosperity in your strong town. https://www.strongtowns.org/ Congress pays 125 cities to defund their police Only 46 are in the U.S. The rest are overseas. The world police force of “Strong Cities” is run by the 25 persons pictured at the top of this story. “Strong Cities” in the U.S. include: Atlanta Austin Brownsville, TX Camden, NJ Charlotte-Mecklenberg, NC Chattanooga, NC Chester, PA Cleveland Cincinnati Columbia, SC Columbus Dallas Denver Detroit Flint, MI Fresno, CA Gary, IN Hampton, VA Houston Indianapolis, IN Knoxville, TN Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County, CA Las Vegas Louisville Macon, GA Memphis Minneapolis Montgomery County, MD New Orleans New York Newport News, VA Newark Oakland Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Richmond, CA Rockville, IL Rocky Mount, NC Rutland, VT San Diego St. Louis, MO Seattle Tampa Youngstown, OH https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/en/cities/member-cities/ International Steering Committee The Strong Cities Network is driven by an International Steering Committee of 26 cities and municipalities from different regions across the globe. Cities and municipalities selected for the Steering Committee were chosen based on their leadership and commitment to sharing information and expertise through the SCN. Steering Committee members are drawn from different global regions to ensure diversity within the network. International Steering Committee members: Aarhus (Denmark); Antalya (Turkey); Atlanta (USA); Beirut (Lebanon); Copenhagen (Denmark); Dakar (Senegal); Denver (USA); Kaduna (Nigeria); Kano (Nigeria); Kiffa (Mauritania); Kristiansand (Norway); London (UK); Medellín (Colombia); Minneapolis (USA); Mombasa (Kenya); Montréal (Canada); Mumbai (India); New York City (USA); Oslo (Norway); Palermo (Italy); Paris (France); Puno (Peru); Rotterdam (Netherlands); Stockholm (Sweden); Tunis (Tunisia); Victoria (Australia). https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/.../steering-committee/ Strong Cities Network Cities are uniquely able to safeguard their citizens from polarization and extremism to create stronger and safer communities. https://www.isdglobal.org/strong-cities-network/ ***Strong Cities Are All Part Of ICLEI*** U.S. Cities That Belong to ICLEI Posted on March 13, 2013 by ATC | Comments Off on U.S. Cities That Belong to ICLEI U.S. Cities who have a Membership in ICLEI (as printed of in 2/2013) NOTE TO READER: It would be recommended that you not assume this listing is totally accurate, as membership roles can and do change with time. Agenda 21 Course Understanding Sustainable Development and How It Affects You https://www.agenda21course.com/u-s-cities-that-belong-to.../ You've heard of UN Agenda 21/2030 yes? That's for nations but there is also a part of that centered just on cities known as ICLEI and your cities are probably one that signed onto this international beast associated with the UN Agenda 21/2030. "ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, founded in 1990 as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. The association was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at its inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York in September 1990. Today, more than 1200 cities, towns, counties, and their associations in 84 countries comprise ICLEI's growing membership. ICLEI works with these and hundreds of other local governments through international performance-based, results-oriented campaigns and programs. It provides technical consulting, training, and information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local government in the implementation of sustainable development at the local level. ICLEI's basic premise is that locally designed initiatives can provide an effective and cost-efficient way to achieve local, national, and global sustainability objectives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICLEI Take a look at the ICLEI website http://icleiusa.org/ So get mad at your cities, your mayor and city council. Get mad at the people, the elites, in your communities that are signed onto ICLEI because it was THEY that did this all under the guise of 'sustainability'...that good old buzzword. A great resource for those who wish to confront their cities and get out of this behemoth can go here for a FANTASTIC education http://www.freedomadvocates.org/ GLOBAL COVENANT OF MAYORS link ---> 7,451 cities, representing 674,790,274 people worldwide and 9.32% of the total global population, have committed to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. http://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/ ICLEI Teaches Local Governments How To Support The Paris Climate Agreement How your local government can support Paris Climate Accord https://icleiusa.org/how-your-local-government-can.../ Mayor's Conference Miami, Florida - Here is a video for Climate Protection Awards https://youtu.be/EBrR5DPRVuw On page 5 [ do not go by the counter page on the left hand side but the page number at the bottom- Here is the map of smart cities for our country ] 88 cities in the world are designated to be smart cities within 10 years and it seems each day more governments are working on the smart city movement. 36 Page PDF https://icma.org/sites/default/files/308555_2016%20smart%20cities%20survey_summary%20report_final.pdf Governing Smart Cities: Policy Benchmarks for Ethical and Responsible Smart City Development WHITE PAPER JULY 2021 https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Governing_Smart_Cities_2021.pdf https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Sustainable%20Smart%20Cities%20Profile%20and%20survey%20ENG.pdf 2016SmartCitiesSurvey.pdf https://www.usmayors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016SmartCitiesSurvey.pdf Cities of the 21st Century - United States Conference of Mayors https://www.usmayors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016SmartCitiesSurvey.pdf Cities of the 21st Century - usmayors.org https://www.usmayors.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-Smart-Cities-Report.pdf Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities https://www.usmayors.org/programs/smart-cities/ Bill Clinton: ‘Creative Societies Are About Multiplication, Not Division’ June 24, 2017 https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/bill-clinton-addressing-nations-mayors-miami-beach/ 85th Annual Meeting: Mayors Climate Protection Luncheon https://youtu.be/EBrR5DPRVuw 90th Annual Meeting: Mayors Climate Protection Awards Luncheon https://youtu.be/vCGD1Mi8qms H/T Carol Ray - Painful Truth Here: The list of Mayors ready to sign the Paris Agreement/Agenda 2030 has now grown to 331 Mayors in Miami, Florida hosted by Bill Clinton. 407 US Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals STATEMENT FROM THE CLIMATE MAYORS IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT https://medium.com/@ClimateMayors/climate-mayors-commit-to-adopt-honor-and-uphold-paris-climate-agreement-goals-ba566e260097 U.N. Releases Paris Agreement Climate Analysis Ahead Of COP28 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2023/09/13/un-releases-paris-agreement-climate-analysis-ahead-of-cop28/?sh=5e20469f4561 Technical dialogue of the first global stocktake https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake/components-of-the-gst/technical-dialogue-of-the-first-global-stocktake#Relevant-documents Why the Global Stocktake is Important for Climate Action this Decade https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake/about-the-global-stocktake/why-the-global-stocktake-is-important-for-climate-action-this-decade To Cut Emissions to Zero, U.S. Needs to Make Big Changes in Next 10 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/america-next-decade-climate.html New research details major infrastructure work — including immense construction projects — that would need to start right away to achieve Biden’s goal of zero emissions by 2050. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/america-next-decade-climate.html Boston Mayor Marty Walsh: "Today we're signing the Paris Agreement on behalf of our individual cities." I kept wondering how global governance would take control and now we know through the puppet mayors. Oh it is real and we have young people who are being indoctrinated as you know - They are whipping us into a global communist society and all we can do is watch - Dept. of Labor Acosta was in attendance at that conference too as well as D J Gribbin, Special Assistant to President on Infrastructure.. "There's near unanimity in this conference that climate change is real and that humans contribute to it. There may be a little bit of a disagreement about how actually to deal with it," said Landrieu, who will replace Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett as conference president this weekend. Bill Clinton applauded the Mayor who signed the Paris Climate Accord " "if you sign, you've got to seal and deliver." And people within the cities have absolutely no idea what their mayor's are doing to them. When SHTF....not so sure there won't be pitchforks and torches but I reckon that's wishful thinking on my part. I honestly believe Americans have become complacent , full of apathy and have lost the guts to stand up to all of this . As Andres Duany stated in a meeting in Fla. a few years ago " Fascism is efficient " when he spoke of the UN ---------- Example: H/T Carol Ray Writes: Take for instance Atlanta on the West side you have Peach Tree City , Newnan, etc.. they are connecting to Atlanta and I am sure the east side will also - It is to be developed into mega regions - As metropolitan regions continued to expand throughout the second half of the 20th century their boundaries began to blur, creating a new scale of geography now known as the megaregion. Interlocking economic systems, shared natural resources and ecosystems, and common transportation systems link these population centers together. As continued population growth and low density settlement patterns place increasing pressure on these systems, there is greater impetus to coordinate policy at this expanded scale. Most of the nation's rapid population growth, and an even larger share of its economic expansion, is expected to occur in 11 megaregions: large networks of metropolitan regions, each megaregion covering thousands of square miles and located in every part of the country. The megaregions of the United States are defined by layers of relationships that together define a common interest; this common interest, in turn, forms the basis for policy decisions. ICLEI World Congress https://worldcongress.iclei.org/ Sustainable Mobility at ICLEI ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network of more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development. Through the Sustainable Mobility agenda, ICLEI supports its Members to provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, resilient, low-emission and sustainable mobility systems to create livable cities that fulfill the mobility needs of all. Sustainable Mobility at ICLEI https://sustainablemobility.iclei.org/ ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability: The origin story CLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (iclei.org), formerly, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, is the largest global network of city governments cooperating on environmental governance goals--including climate change. But how did this great innovation in "bottom-up" global governance come about? ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability: The origin story https://youtu.be/vKUrL2_xCQU ICLEI's Governance Structure ICLEI is driven by its Members. They shape this organization, and with their leadership, we remain a united global force. Our governance bodies, elected every 3 years, are designed for Members to steer the organization and to make sure it directly reflects their ideas and aspirations. ICLEI's Governance Structure https://youtu.be/bP6emzgKQw4 America 2050 Development Website https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.america2050.org/ The Emerging Mega Regions - The United States https://archive.fo/GyF2 http://i.imgur.com/HYeJHbu.png https://rpa.org/work/reports?series=america-2050/images/2050_Map_Megaregions2008_150.png US 2050 https://www.pgpf.org/us-2050 America Year 2050 https://archive.ph/M5dX Here is a interactive map of all US cities in the ICLEI network - Meet the ICLEI USA Network The map shows American cities in partnership with the UN's sustainable development goals as part the global governance of the Earth.... https://icleiusa.org/network/ original found on ZP ZAP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2fexv5LDE