Local communities face onslaught from self-anointed planners

What was once largely the domain of far-away UN conferences and obscure academic journals has now made its way to Main Street.

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|2014-04-25T22:12:42-04:00April 25th, 2014|19 Comments

Are you killing the planet with a burger and a cuppa joe?

As Maurice Strong who spearheaded the 1991 Rio Earth Summit wrote in the U.N.’s Conference on Environmental Development (UNCED) report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class … involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, small electric appliances, home and work place air- conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable .… A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.”

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|2013-10-17T09:29:17-04:00June 29th, 2013|5 Comments

Watch Now: Exploiting Superstorm Sandy to push global warming at ICLEI

Exploiting tragic natural weather events to push global warming at ICLEI.

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|2013-06-03T21:25:41-04:00June 3rd, 2013|Comments Off on Watch Now: Exploiting Superstorm Sandy to push global warming at ICLEI

Report on ICLEI conference – Mission Bonn

The battle over global warming policy is often viewed as taking place in Washington, D.C. and the UN. But another front that receives scant attention, though is no less important, is in city halls around the globe.

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|2013-10-17T09:31:24-04:00June 3rd, 2013|Comments Off on Report on ICLEI conference – Mission Bonn

Bonn Press release: UN Agenda 21 frustrated by property rights advocates

Property rights vs. UN Agenda 21 ICLEI attendees dismayed over growing grassroots opposition

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|2013-06-01T18:00:31-04:00June 1st, 2013|6 Comments

Press release: CFACT delegation heads to Bonn summit

Can Obama & Kerry jump start the UN climate process? CFACT sends delegation to the UN Climate Summit and ICLEI forum in Bonn

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|2013-10-17T09:31:39-04:00May 30th, 2013|1 Comment

CFACT videos ICLEI’s founder doing his Glenn Beck impression

LIZ KLIMAS ‘Totally Weird’: Sustainability Org. Mocks Beck at Conference But Wants to Adopt His Tactics Newsflash: Glenn Beck is “totally weird,” or so one organization of local governments focused on sustainability says. But that criticism only goes so far: consider that the same group mocking beck, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, actually thinks Beck is a good example for how to gain a following. The founder of ICLEI, Jeb Brugmann, was speaking to members over the weekend in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at its World Congress 2012 meeting ahead of the United Nations sustainability summit — Rio+20 — that begins [...]

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|2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 20th, 2012|Comments Off on CFACT videos ICLEI’s founder doing his Glenn Beck impression

Can you define sustainability? ICLEI can’t…

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) insists we embrace "sustainable development" to save the planet. But when CFACT asked ICLEI members at their "World Congress" in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, we got more "umms" and "uhhs" than anything else!

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|2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 18th, 2012|Comments Off on Can you define sustainability? ICLEI can’t…

ICLEI Members Admit “Bait and Switch” to Boost Climate Agenda

Belo Horizonte, Brazil. To advance public action on global warming, participants attending the ICLEI World Congress admitted today that they are deliberately employing new terminology to misdirect opponents and gain acceptance of their efforts to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases. By utilizing terms like “sustainability” and “sustainable development,” the group wants to mask its objectives and disarm would-be critics who might otherwise oppose their agenda, ICLEI attendees confided with CFACT representatives at the conference.

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|2013-10-17T09:40:59-04:00June 18th, 2012|Comments Off on ICLEI Members Admit “Bait and Switch” to Boost Climate Agenda

Champagne Flows as Enviros Demand Lower Living Standards

The International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is calling for economic "contraction" in America and the rest of the developed world. Their "World Congress" conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, however, is a lavish affair replete with rich food, champagne and opulence. The blatant hypocrisy is stunning.

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|2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 17th, 2012|Comments Off on Champagne Flows as Enviros Demand Lower Living Standards
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