by Mary Baker | Jan 17, 2014 | International, National, Property Rights, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Uncategorized, Urban |
The architects and supporters of the Sustainable Development movement both abroad and at home are routinely in the process of changing terms to define their initiatives and agenda. In fact, the early implementers of Agenda 21 in America knew better than to call this...
by Mary Baker | Jul 30, 2013 | Exurban/Suburban, National, Property Rights, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, Urban |
Yesterday I posted an article by Mimi Steele, President of Citizens Alliance for Property Rights, SF Bay Chapter, that describes the disastrous consequences to the future economy and quality of life in the San Francisco Bay area after a vote by ABAG and MTC to approve...
by Mary Baker | Jul 29, 2013 | National, Property Rights, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development |
By, Mimi Steel, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views, 7/21/13 On July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. On that same day, just before midnight, a group of unelected, regional bureaucrats in the San Francisco Bay Area voted...
by Mary Baker | Jun 18, 2013 | Sustainable Development |
The philosophy in the school room in one generation will become the philosophy of government in the next. ~Abraham Lincoln Progressive social engineers in America and abroad have stated that one of the obstacles to achieving a sustainable 21st century utopia is...
by Mary Baker | Feb 17, 2013 | Sustainable Development, Uncategorized |
The United Nations civil society initiative in America is the elevation of the NGO as a superpower. The members of civil society are to be actors outside the structure of government and through its organizations operate at the same power stratum as the most powerful...
by Mary Baker | Jan 25, 2013 | Property Rights, Sustainable Development |
Sustainable Development, fabricated by the United Nations Brundtland Commission and global elites, is a new livability and religious paradigm that seeks to entrench its core values into every person, business, and locality in the world. Imminent global environmental...
by Mary Baker | Nov 27, 2012 | Smart Growth, Sustainable Development |
KPBS’s article Are Cycle Tracks a Better Way to Bike? published today weighs in on alternatives to bike lanes such as cycle tracks and in doing so presumes that the bike modal share in U.S. cities must be significant enough to warrant this discussion and that...
by Mary Baker | Oct 31, 2012 | Sustainable Development |
The following story is another good example of what I wrote about in The Green Agenda: Do the ends justify the means? [Please see below for an update on the fate of the Drake’s Bay Oyster Company] What is the priority agenda behind the green movement? Is...
by Mary Baker | Oct 11, 2012 | Regionalism, Sustainable Development |
That’s what this proposition should be called. This bill is being promoted as a way to bring accountability and improve performance of government in California; as a way to bring more control back to the cities. These claims and the title of this proposition, The...
by Mary Baker | Aug 16, 2012 | Smart Growth, Sustainable Development |
Chicago Tribune re-printed a Reuters’ article yesterday called California City Eyes Carbon Credit Revenue from its Trees. I have posted an excerpt below as a follow up to an article I wrote on the subject on June 1, 2012, Counting Trees in San Diego.* The...
by Mary Baker | Jul 23, 2012 | Sustainable Development, Uncategorized |
On July 10, 2012 the Executive Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, Rochelle Becker, addressed members of Conservative Order for Good Government (COGG) in Rancho Bernardo, California. For over 30 years, Ms. Becker has been advocating for nuclear...
by Mary Baker | Jul 13, 2012 | Free Range Life, Sustainable Development |
To date, I have not seen a better urban image that captures the natural instincts of man to range freely in his environment. This is what humans do. There is no amount of planning that will correct this impulse. This photo was taken by W. Cox and was used in an...