Water
Fishy Business in the San Lorenzo Valley Water District
By Jenna Moore, 5/22/2003 –
The San Lorenzo Valley Water District exceeds jurisdiction to promote water programs opposed to local public interest.
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Climate Change
Global Warming Myth Debunked
By oism.org, 5/22/2003 – Will Chicken Little finally get the pink slip from “special interest” groups? Right. on the bright side: maybe the emperor doesn’t need clothes after all. This summary of Access to Energy research provides access to vital information you should know about the Global Warming myth, including a petition signed by 17,000 scientists opposed to the Kyoto protocols and the myth of human-caused global warming. […]
Transportation
Rails Fails in San Jose, California
By Freedom Advocates Staff, 5/21/2003 –
When it comes to travel, Californians still want independence and freedom of choice. An endless barrage of expensive "expert studies" has failed to convince taxpayers to opt for collectivist models of transportation, yet road maintenance and infrastructure improvement have been "sidetracked" for 30 years. Why?
Liberty - Legitimate Government
American National Sovereignty vs. UN “International Law”- Time for Congress to Vote
By Ron Paul, 4/30/2003 –
“Perhaps it’s time to stop trying to manipulate the UN, and start asserting our national sovereignty,” Representative Ron Paul told Congress in this April 29, 2003 speech. “Americans deserve to know how their representatives stand on the critical issue of American sovereignty.”
Wildlands Network
ESA: Flawed Law
4/28/2003 – Summary: The ESA has become a most effective tool in the hands of the preservationists and those intent on destroying the livelihoods of millions of Americans. T. R. Mader, Research Director for the Abundant Wildlife Society of North America tells how and offers solutions.
Sustainable Development
A Letter to the CATO Institute
SUMMARY: Excerpts from a letter to Cato Institute Director of Natural Resource Studies Jerry Taylor, from Michael Shaw regarding "Sustainable Development: A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem."
"Sustainable Development/Agenda 21 is the ultimate collectivist design, and is therefore, more than dangerous. Fortunately, its underlying precepts are simple to understand and condemn. The challenge is in the exposure."
Articles
Wildlands Project Writ Large
By Henry Lamb, 3/3/2003 –
When Earth First! co-founder, Dave Foreman, first voiced his vision in 1990, of wolves and grizzly bears roaming, unmolested by humans, through unbroken wilderness from Mexico to Canada — many people laughed. The "Wildlands Project" is no longer a laughing matter. Nine bills have been introduced to expand wilderness in America and surround them with "primitive areas" in which human activity is severely limited. Dave Foreman’s vision should be rejected. Free people create free markets; neither can survive when the government owns the sources of production.
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Sustainable Communities: Under Construction Everywhere
By Henry Lamb, 2/24/2003 –
Sustainable communities will ensure that individuals and nations pursue the future only along the paths deemed "sustainable" by those self-appointed bureaucrats who think they know what is best for the world. [California’s Senate Bill SB 375 "Sustainable Communities Strategy" of 2008 follows this principle.]
Sustainable Development
What is “Unsustainable”?
By Freedom Advocates, 2/23/2003 –
The Global Biodiversity Assessment report directed by the United Nations Environment Programe (UNEP) calls for urgent action to reverse unsustainable effects on global biodiversity. The report is based on the false premise that “Population growth has exceeded the capacity of the biosphere.” In order to understand what is sustainable, one must understand what is not sustainable…
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Sustainable Development in Santa Cruz County and Across the Country
By Nick Peros, 2/20/2003 – If there is a bedrock principle upon which our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our nation was constructed, it is this: "government is empowered by the Consent of the governed"… There are people among us in Santa Cruz County and other portions of the United States and other nations that believe this method of public policy development is obsolete.