Wildlands Network
Local UN Agenda 21 Meets Resistance
3/24/2005 – Local UN Agenda 21 Meets Citizen Resistance
Feds driven out of County Fire Safe Council […]
Articles
Articles
Summary of Fire Safe Council, Habitat Conservation Plan for Santa Cruz County
By Michael Shaw 23 March 2005 Local UN Agenda 21 Meets Resistance Habitat Conservation Plan Adoption Slowed State Dictates CDF Support of Federal HCP
Illegitimate Government
The Insanity of Celebrating Human Rights Day
By Michael Park, 2/23/2005 –
Some Santa Cruz County politicians celebrated the United Nation’s Human Rights Day with typical public deception. Papers were handed out that OMITTED a critical part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Smart Growth - Planning
What’s Behind “THE VISION” in Your Town?
By Susanna L. Jennings, 2/15/2005 – The visioning process includes: “values” research, how to run "facilitated" workshops and to how to use “consensus building” to create scenarios for area “change”. When public officials and NGOs (non-government organizations) use the term "visioning" it really means Agenda 21 principles are being implemented.
Education Transformation
Environmentalist Propaganda for Kids
By Jay Lehr, Ph.D., 2/10/2005 – When textbooks preach Sustainable Development "science" rather than teaching the facts, children are being indoctrinated. Heartland’s Jay Lehr reviews the recently-released The Future of the Earth: An Introduction to Sustainable Development for Young Readers.
Articles
Just the Facts, Please! — The Ties Between Transportation and Housing in Santa Cruz County
By Michael Park, 1/28/2005 –
LA SELVA BEACH, CA — A handful of county government insiders posing as community service volunteers were vocal participants in a successful attempt to shut down Michael Park as he delivered a facts-based speech on local Smart Growth policies regarding transportation and housing to the La Selva Beach Improvement Association on October 21, 2004. Read the transcript and see for yourself what they didn’t want the public to know.
Wildlands Network
The Real Price of Wilderness Designation
By Chris Horgan, 10/13/2004 – Designated Wilderness is land where no mechanized use is allowed. It is severely restrictive.
Wildlands Network
An Open Letter to the King and His Game Keeper
By Thomas Paine –
Summary:
As land around the country becomes swallowed up by the government and its partners through "habitat protection plans" the silence behind the science is deafening. The red-legged frog is another species used on the central coast in steal land and limit human action.
Illegitimate Government
The California Performance Review: Devolving Constitutional Government in the Golden State
Susanna Lynton Jennings, 10/13/2004 –
"My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it… People need somebody to watch over them… Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. News & World Report, November 26, 1990
Private Property
Seeds of Change: Landowner Talks on Abundance Ecology
By Nancy Redwine –
Summary:
"Liberty Garden proves that if people are free to create voluntary
associations, the laws of economics and the consequence of stewardship
will cause the earth to improve."
Michael Shaw, Abundance Ecologist