Identifying Agenda 21

Your city will most likely have a combination of these or all of these.

1. New Redevelopment City Plans –  That promote the 3 E’s : Environment, Economy and Social Equity – also look for sustainability ideals/adoptions, private/public partnerships, mentions of stakeholders

2. Smart Meters are present in your city

3. Bike Paths/Routes that are mandated by your city to receive specific funds or planned throughout your city with out funding.  Typically these bike routes will take current motor vehicle paths.

4. Your city is a member of ICLEI – or ICMA

5. Your community has a Sustainability Department or Sustainability Director

6. Community supports compact, high density, mixed use, pedestrian and bicycle oriented development patterns, constructed along public transportation and rail corridors.

7. Your community is actively promoting healthy communities through sustainable agriculture and community gardens – a shift away from free market food system to a public sustainable food system

8. Your city is a member of NCTCOG or other regional councils that promote and launch new sustainable initiatives

9. Your city has determined suburbs are considered Sprawl and blight and is discouraged to continue through various incentives and regulations

10. Your city is building or built new Green buildings – typically LEED certified or LEED certified materials and builders

11. Your city has shut down or discouraged coal, fossil fuels or typical sources of energy and are promoting alternatives like solar and wind farms

12. Private Land owning is under great strain due to new restrictions, codes, regulations, land use rules, – in order to ‘promote’ preservation, environmental protection and conserve natural resources.

13. Your city is a member and working with N Gos to gain more control over privately owned land to secure (take) land for common ‘green space’

14. You see more of the 3 E’s on city planning, information, city documents:  Environment, Economy and Social Equity  – when these overlap they call it ‘sustainable’.

15. Your city belongs to: the Earth Charter, Sierra Club’s Cool Cities Initiative, Audobon Society’s Sustainable Community Initiative  or your mayor has signed up for the US Conference of Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement

16. Your city accepts Global Warming or Global Climate Change  ideas

17. Acceptance of LEED – building and energy standards and certifications for all construction and development

18. You hear your city being called: transition town, resilient city, livable community and have educational classes that start teaching this concept of globalism, interdependence with nature

19. Social Equity words are used more often like: food justice, economic and environmental justice, direct democracy, diversity, wealth redistribution, one world,

20. Your city is involved with many N Gos and working with them for planning and development

21. Your local schools promote IBO  or IB classes (International Baccalaureate)

22. Your local schools promote awareness on environmental, sustainable development and focus on becoming environmentally literate – promotion of good global citizens.  Less and less on promotion of national good citizenship and individual independence.

23. Your city promotes Private-Public partnerships

24. Your city promotes a philosophical non-specific ideas such as well being and happiness and less on understanding of GDP, prosperity, progress any traditional wealth and growth measures.

25. Your city resources: water, coal, gas, timber, metals, mines, etc are becoming more restricted and more costly or shut down completely– all due to ‘environment’ ‘economic’ or social equity reasons.

Good source used to help create this list was: http://www.americanalertnews.com/21signs.htm – please check them out.

In isolation some of these may sound OK, but as a whole all of these ‘symptoms’ are working together to change the philosophy of how we live and to destroy the individual.  (Once they destroy the individual no one person will matter.  You will loose all sense of confidence and you will only exist for the ‘good’ of the state.  Once your usefulness is gone – you are gone or they will probably call this recycled).