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preservation and control of “downtown” development, conservation easements and development
rights for control of rural property. These groups like ICLEI, the American Planning Association, the
Renaissance Planning Group, and many more, are heavily involved with state and federal plans. They
arrive in your community withy blueprints, state and federal plans, grants and lots of contacts in high
places. There are official state and federal programs for “going Green”, Comprehensive land use plans,
and lots of programs for the kids in the classrooms.”
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“Using its enormous grant-making powers, the federal government extended sustainable development
consciousness throughout state and local governments and created a whole new community of
sustainable development NGO’s (non-government organizations). The Sustainable Resource
Center received $9,961,640 and the Institute for Sustainable Development received $66,635,422.”
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The American Planning Association, for example, received $3,885,093 in federal grants for
sustainable development projects while they desperately attempt to disassociate themselves with
AGENDA 21, even though they worked seven years, as mentioned above, to create the Growing Smart
Legislative Guidebook for implementing AGENDA 21 policies in every locality.

The media and the Sustainablists insist that AGENDA 21 consists merely of policy ideas.
“Continuously we hear that local planning programs, especially from such groups like the American
Planning Association (APA), have no connection to Agenda 21 or the UN. It’s all local — or as the APA
says in its document, "Glossary for the Public," “There is no hidden agenda.” In its “Agenda 21: Myths
and Facts” document found on the APA website, the group goes to extreme measures to distance itself
and its policies from Agenda 21, specifically saying “The American Planning Association has no
affiliation regarding any policy goals and recommendations of the UN.”

Well, then it would be interesting to hear the APA explain information found in one of its own
documents from 1994. The document was an APA newsletter to its members in Northern California
(San Francisco Area). The article was a commentary entitled “How Sustainable Is Our Planning?”” The
newsletter can be viewed here:
http://americanpolicy.org/wp-
content/uploads/2013/06/1994APAdoclinksUNPCSDUrbanEcologyandAgenda21.pdf

“The fifth paragraph of the article says, “Vice President Gore’s book, Earth in the Balance, addressed
many of the general issues of sustainability. Within the past year, the President’s Council on
Sustainable Development has been organized to develop recommendations for incorporating
sustainability into the federal government. Also, various groups have been formed to implement
Agenda 21, a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable development that was adopted at the recent
UNCED conference in Rio de Janeiro (the “Earth Summit.”)

In one paragraph, this document brings together the APA, Agenda 21, the UN’s Earth Summit, Al
Gore, Sustainable Development, the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, and NGO
groups with the mission of implementing Agenda 21 and the description of Agenda 21 as a
“comprehensive Blueprint” for Sustainable Planning!” This is dramatic proof that AGENDA 21
is intertwined with local planning programs!
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/15824-the-smoking-gun-the-direct-link-between-
aganda-21-and-local-planners

“Grants were awarded to state and local governments as well as to NGOs for the development of
community plans based on the recommendations set forth by the President’s Council on sustainable
Development.”
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