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Pinging the Agenda 21 Folks!

If you want to be on or off the Agenda 21 ping list, please notify me by Freepmail. It is a relatively low volume list in which we have been exploring the UN Agenda21 and related topics. We have collected our studies with threads, links, and discussions on the Agenda 21 thread which can be found here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738418/posts

One of our participants, Whenifhow, has recently been doing some research on some things which have come to his/her attention and wanted to share what he/she found. (I will use the masculine pronoun for ease of written English...Whenifhow, if you are female, please excuse me!) He started looking into information on the Hewlett Foundations and ran into some interesting links, which follow. As of a couple days ago, the links were working.

Neither of us are seeking to do any fill-in-the-dots connections, but are offering these pages as being of interest in and of themselves, but also perhaps helpful for those who ARE seeking to make those connections, or would find the pages helpful for providing links for other researches in related topics.

This is a document entitled “Spectacular Migrations in the Western US, by Keith Aune and Elizabeth Williams. It relates directly with the topic of this thread. Whenifhow directs us to page 5 of the document. There is quite an interesting chart that some may find instructive on the “Quadrant Approach.”
http://www.wcs.org/files/pdfs/Spectacular-Migrations-in-the-Western-US-Version-3.pdf

Strategy Planning tool for Western Conservation
http://www.hewlett.org/uploads/files/Hewlett_Found_Western_Conservation_Strategy_Planning_Tool.pdf

Whenifhow comments that the FOUNDATION’S GOAL IS TO ENSURE THE ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY of the West to benefit wildlife and people. The strategy planning tool includes targets for ecosystems, species, core areas, connectivity corridors, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable human uses. The specific targets are guided by scientific and other expert input and are updated as information improves.

He indicates that: page 2 of the following 3 page document lists various foundations which would be of interest to research who the writers of the document are hoping will come on board with money to support their efforts. Listings of the Foundations include commentary of their role in “food security” and “sustainable agriculture.”:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/g20/Pittsburgh_Fact_Sheet_Food_Security.pdf
Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Rabobank Foundation, World Economic Forum, Initiative for Global Development

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM STARTED ITS MEETING TODAY, 1/25/12 IN DAVOS, SWITZERLAND. If you are inclined to pray about such things, please ask the Lord to take command of that meeting and let only His Will be done!

This is the United States Mission to the European Union page. It has quite a number of relevant articles and links that are of interest to our studies:
http://www.useu.be/

Obama Administration Details the US Agenda for UN Reforms page. It sounds good, but fear there is a twist or layer that may not be addressed in this public policy statement. Supposedly Obama is wanting for the UN to do more with less of the US taxpayer money.

http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2012/01/20120120155253eiznekcam0.1052667.html?CP.rss=true#axzz1kWFRFjF6

Here is a page of Ambassador Rice on Obama's Agenda for UN Reform.
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2012/01/20120120090243su0.5017293.html?CP.rss=true#axzz1kWFRFjF6

Here is a link to a UN website document entitled “Sustainable Production and Consumption.” It deals with two areas of concern, “1.Domestically-focused Agencies and Programs” and “2.Internationally-Focused Agencies and Programs.” That takes in a lot of territory and is quite a long document, but worth looking at.

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_ni/ni_pdfs/NationalReports/usa/scp.pdf

Non-Federal agricultural and forest lands occupy 1.4 billion acres or nearly 70 percent of the contiguous United States. U.S. land types include forests (28 percent), croplands (20 percent), urban, suburban and rural residential areas, (6 percent), miscellaneous other uses (7 percent); and special uses—primarily parks and wildlife areas (13 percent)—
(http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb973.pdf.). In addition to supporting the agriculture and forest sectors, farms and forests also provide a range of ecosystem services including wildlife habitat and corridors that support healthy wildlife populations, filter groundwater supplies, regulate surface water flows, sequester carbon, and provide open space and scenic vistas that improve quality of life for people. Increasingly, methods of valuing and accounting for ecosystem services associated with landscapes and their management are being developed and implemented. (See USDA Office of Ecosystem Services). ESRI Conservation Program Resources: General Conservation

www.conservationgis.org/links/conserve.html

Some of the largest funding agencies are listed on this page. The excerpt below is just one of them.

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Population and Sustainable Development Program Dc e98 . (200 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC 20005 Tel: (202) 326-6658 * Fax: (202) 289-4958 Email: vdompka@aaas.org GIS Contact: Lars Bromley )

“Funded by a grant from the Summit Foundation, PSD is currently collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to use ArcInfo and ArcView to manage and display the datasets which best depict population-environment interactions. PSD is drawing on the AAAS membership—the worlds largest federation of scientific and engineering societies—and our international contacts for expertise in choosing, analyzing, and commenting on the data gathered to ensure the greatest accuracy....Our outputs from this project will be extensive.

First, a publication entitled “A World Atlas of Populations and the Environment,” will be released in late 1999 to coincide with the anticipated Cairo +5 international population conferences. This Atlas, which Bansen Publishing has expressed interest in, will be distributed among institutions, academia, business, and individuals worldwide. Themes such as ‘Human Populations and Coastal Areas,’ or ‘Human Consumption and CO2 Emissions,’ will be chosen, data gathered from public and institutional sources, and GIS-generated maps created for review.

The most effective of these maps will then be rendered for publishing in the Atlas together with commentary supplied by leading experts in their respective fields.

Smart Growth Funding Resource Guide
www.smartgrowth.org/pdf/funding_resources.pdf

United Nations Owns Most USA National Parks and Park Lands: Did You Know?
http://alternativenewsreport.net/2011/11/22/united-nations-agenda21/

UNESCO established the World Commission on Culture and Development (WCCD) (I could not get this website to open today)

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/ Statement of the Global Migration Group on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/SHS/pdf/GMG_statement.pdf

From page 2 In view of these challenges, the GMG calls on the international community to recognize that migration and displacement induced by environmental degradation and climate change require urgent action. Specifically, the GMG recommends:

- To adopt gender-sensitive, human rights- and human development-oriented measures to improve the livelihoods of those exposed to the effects of climate change and increase their resilience, in order to counter the need for involuntary movements.

- To pay particular attention to the human rights situation of all people affected by the consequences of climate change, regardless of their legal status: international human rights law, including the fundamental principle of non-discrimination, as well as specific instruments such as the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, should guide States’ action towards people who are displaced as a result of environmental factors.

- To explore the complex interrelations between climate change and human mobility in order to collect data, develop expertise and build capacity to address this challenge, and to achieve close cooperation between the climate and social sciences communities to this end.

- To address the migration impacts of both sudden and slow-onset effects of climate change.

- To recognize migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental risks and to make migration an option available to the most vulnerable. Immigration policies could take into account environmental factors in the likelihood of cross-border movement and consider opening new opportunities for legal migration.

- To assist the least-developed countries in responding to climate change by mainstreaming migration and mobility in national adaptation plans.

- To incorporate the relationship between climate change and migration in Poverty Reduction Strategies and national development strategies.

Here’s a listing of the World Heritage sites for the USA, Gettysburg is not included so I do wonder what that AC meant but either way...this is unbelievable.

United States of America
* Mesa Verde National Park
* Yellowstone National Park
* Everglades National Park
* Grand Canyon National Park
* Independence Hall
* Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 33
* Redwood National and State Parks
* Mammoth Cave National Park
* Olympic National Park
* Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
* Great Smoky Mountains National Park
* La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
* Statue of Liberty
* Yosemite National Park #
* Chaco Culture
* Hawaii Volcanoes National Park #
* Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
* Pueblo de Taos
* Carlsbad Caverns National Park
* Waterton Glacier International Peace Park *
* Papahānaumokuākea
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list

From their site:
What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.

High Seas Recognized as Critical for Sustainable Development in UN Process
http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/press-releases/pew-encouraged-that-ocean-protection-is-on-rio20-agenda-85899368825

I (texokie) have just realized as I have previewed this post of the above list, that my html skills are not up to snuff. I did manage to make breaks and paragraphs, but have always had trouble with links. I can do them but it takes me a LONG time.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, my FReep time is quite limited of late. I find I am wanting to get this posted, but have run out of time. PLEASE forgive me the formatting inadequacies and press of time. My apologies especially to Whenifhow, whose research this is.