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About Christina Norman

Christina Norman serves as the Director of Development for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. She is also responsible for CFACT’s website building, web maintenance, and graphic design. Christina holds a BA from the University of MN-Duluth and is a graduate of the Koch Associate Program. Christina is passionate about the environment and outdoors, particularly our lakes and rivers in Minnesota. She and her husband live in Lake Elmo, and have 3 beautiful children.

Press Conference Thursday 10:30 AM

Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday June 21, 2012 CONTACT: Russell Cook, 602-753-9141, [email protected] Rio+20: 'Sustainable development' = the new 'climate change' CFACT exposes the UN's latest ruse de guerre Shows a constructive path to rescue Rio+20 CFACT Press Conference -- Thursday, June 21, 10:30 AM, Pavilion 3, Room 8 (P3-8) (Rio de Janeiro) Having failed to secure a binding climate treaty and with the public increasingly skeptical about climate pronouncements of doom, the UN and its allied Green pressure groups hope to rebrand their multi-billion dollar eco-enterprise in Rio. “Follow the money,” said CFACT [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T20:56:07-04:00June 21st, 2012|Comments Off

Inhofe at CFACT press conference: Why isn’t Obama in Rio?

Planet Gore By Harry Graver June 20, 2012 6:30 P.M. Today marked the opening day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, and in a press release and video, Senator James Inhofe (R., Okla.) blasted the conference’s “radical global-warming agenda,” as well as President Obama’s political maneuvering around the topic. “The bottom line is simple: President Obama is running for reelection and is too busy trying to tell American voters that he is the new fossil-fuels President and that he actually supports the development of oil, gas, and coal,” Inhofe said in the video. “I don’t think that message would sell [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 20th, 2012|Comments Off

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 [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 20th, 2012|Comments Off

Mission Rio picked up by National Review’s Planet Gore

Keep an eye on National Riview Online's "Planet Gore" for more updates from CFACT's Mission Rio. Planet Gore Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, environmentalists and U.N. bureaucrats are back in Brazil. After a decade of railing about gloubal-warming climate-change “tipping points” — which were always just around the corner, but never arrived — they have changed their tune once again. Now they say the “real threats” involve sustainable development, biodiversity, and widespread species extinction. In Rio, they are hosting the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development — seeking greater power to control national, state, community, and [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-06-20T08:11:26-04:00June 20th, 2012|Comments Off

Senator Inhofe to level strong criticism of Rio+20

ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday June 20, 2012 U.S. Senator Inhofe to level strong criticism of Rio+20 – Will Ask ‘Where is President Obama?’ ABIDES Event -- Wednesday, June 20, 2 PM, Major Groups - Pavilion T (Rio de Janeiro) U.S. Senator James Inhofe will deliver an important message to the Rio+20 summit that will both answer and raise important questions. Where does the U.S. Senate stand on Rio+20? What will American policy be? What will America spend? Where is President Obama? The United States has always been a principal funder of the UN and understanding America’s policy response [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T23:50:49-04:00June 19th, 2012|Comments Off

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!

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 18th, 2012|Comments Off

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.

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 17th, 2012|Comments Off

Socialism, taxes & Castro: Mission Rio+20 Day 2

Is Fidel Castro your eco-hero? Do you think we need confiscatory taxation, wealth transfers and socialism? Are you prepared to change your lifestyle and live as Greens gathered in Rio de Janeiro decide? If Europe is not sufficiently progressive and needs to shift further left, what are they planning for the United States? We're still at the planning conference for major groups. This weekend, 45,000 more people are traveling to this UN summit. It is hard to imagine what we are seeing and hearing multiplied by that kind of magnitude, but that is what's coming. Take a look at our video [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 15th, 2012|Comments Off

Video Blog – Mission Rio+20 Day 1: The Future We Dread

Yesterday was our first day attending the Rio+20 pre-conference, and boy did we have an interesting time! The radical Greens are out in force, calling for rights for "Mother Earth" and for billing individuals, governments and corporations for their eco-debt. Watch the video to see what CFACT has been up to at this conference. CFACT is back at the conference today as well, documenting the radical policies they want to impose on you through their "The Future We Want" document. Be on the lookout for our next video blog, or subscribe to our YouTube channel for instant notification.

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 14th, 2012|Comments Off

Bureaucrats’ flawed science drives Florida mercury scare

By Willie SoonRegulatory actions being debated in Florida should raise bright red flags for Sunshine State residents, other US states, and even other countries. On May 24, the Environmental Assessment and Restoration Division of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) issued a seriously flawed draft report, proposing much stricter limits for mercury in Florida’s river, stream, lake and coastal waters. The FDEP claims the rules are based on sound science and will improve environmental quality and public health. However, my studies of mercury (Hg) and its biologically toxic form, methylmercury (MeHg), over the past ten years make it clear that [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-16T22:32:42-04:00June 14th, 2012|Comments Off

International climate conference – Berlin June 15th

EIKE hosts a climate conference in Berlin on the very eve of the UN's Rio+20 conference on sustainable development. More information and sign up here.

By Christina Norman |2012-12-31T04:41:23-05:00June 13th, 2012|Comments Off

The future we dread: Marked-up draft of UN Rio+20 agenda reveals shocking “sustainability” wish list

Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 CONTACT: Russell Cook, 1-602-753-9141, [email protected] The future we dread Marked-up draft of UN Rio+20 agenda reveals shocking “sustainability” wish list. An American family of four could owe the UN $1,325 per year. The United Nations plans to make its Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference “the most significant environmental conference in history.” A draft planning and agenda document, “The Future We Want,” marked-up by myriad ultra-liberal NGOs, provides an unvarnished look at what lurks behind Rio+20. “Americans, their free world partners and people in developing nations who hope to lift themselves [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T17:51:38-04:00June 12th, 2012|Comments Off

CFACT heads to Rio+20 to expose UN “sustainability” ploy

C F A C T Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 8, 2012 CONTACT: Russell Cook 602-753-9141 [email protected] What's not to like about sustainable development? For starters, UN Rio+20 Conference threatens people, prosperity, and nature too. CFACT will be there: exposing, debunking and offering constructive solutions. Rio+20 is the next, huge, misguided, harmful Green push. Radical environmentalists hope the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development can carry on where climate change left off (after the public saw through the propaganda). It is the same agenda, the same exaggerated crises and cataclysms, the same anti-hydrocarbon, anti-development [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T23:50:49-04:00June 8th, 2012|Comments Off

Supreme Court rebukes EPA in landmark property rights case

By Dr. Jeff EdgensProperty rights in America are sinking to the bottom of a regulatory swamp. The biggest threat to property rights is unchallenged bureaucratic decisions that command property owners to do the bidding of the EPA while not allowing those citizens the opportunity to be heard. One couple caught in this legal quagmire is Mike and Chantell Sackett, of Priest Lake, Idaho, where they bought property in 2008 to build the home of their dreams. They secured all of the necessary permits and began work to fill the land and to prepare the site for the construction of their lake [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-03-23T07:27:02-04:00March 23rd, 2012|Comments Off

Polluted science contaminates National Toxicology Program

The National Toxicology Program recently revised its process for listing carcinogens in our air and water. But does it go too far? Angela Logomasini of the Competitive Enterprise Institute offers this analysis: “Unfortunately, the federal National Toxicology Program’s carcinogen listing process has little connection to science. A CEI study shows that the criteria the agency uses are subjective rather than scientific. As a result, the agency often labels many perfectly safe and valuable products as dangerous, inviting unnecessary regulations that undermining consumer freedom and innovation. To ensure bad NTP decisions don’t adversely impact consumers, Congress needs to seriously reform [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-02-27T00:00:00-05:00February 27th, 2012|Comments Off