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AGENDA 21  RE-WILDING

Earth Summit Agenda 21

International

 

• 1968 - The Biosphere Conference (UNESCO Paris, September) ‘Scientific basis for Rational Use and Conservation of the Resources of the Biosphere’  recommended concerpted efforts  to establish natural areas for the preservation of species, their habitats, and representative samples of ecosystems. Stanley Cain (USA) described the need for conservation of natural areas and landscape planning—multidisciplinary, multiagency, public-private joint planning that recognized the existence and nature of natural and human ecosystems—essentially ‘ecological planning.’
• 1970 The Seville Starategy for Biosphere Reserves; The Statutory Framework for the World network of Biosphere Reserves; Man and the Biosphere Program; Biosphere Reserves; brochure
• Habitat is the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, held in Vanvouver 1976; Habitat is an outgrowth of the UN Conference on The Human Environment held in Stockholm in june 1972 (Declaration)
• 1980 ICUN World Conservation Strategy; The World Conservation Strategy was formulated by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) in cooperation with the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), FAO and UNESCO.
• UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
• The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
• ICSU International Council for Science
• IUCN The IUCN is an accredited UN advisor and is comprised of government agencies and NGOs (non-governmental organizations). These include the EPA, US Forest Service, US National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, The Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Society for Conservation Biology, and many others.
  • Global Biodiversity Strategy
• The UN Commission for Social Development is a functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. It consists of 46 members elected by ECOSOC;
• 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future
• 1991 Caring For the Earth - (Sustainable Living); Sierra Club Retrospective (Power Pt) Included a network of protected ecosystems
  • Chapter 4. Conserving the Earth's vitality and diversity Action 4.1. Adopt a precautionary approach to pollution. Action 4.2. Cut emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons. Action 4.3. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Action 4.4. Prepare for climate change. Action 4.5. Adopt an integrated approach to land and water management, using the drainage basin as the unit of management. Action 4.6. Maintain as much as possible of each country's natural and modified ecosystems. Action 4.7. Take the pressure off natural and modified ecosystems by protecting the best farmland and managing it in ecologically sound ways. Action 4.8. Halt net deforestation, protect large areas of old-growth forest, and maintain a permanent estate of modified forest. Action 4.9. Complete and maintain a comprehensive system of protected areas. Action 4.10. Improve conservation of wild plants and animals. Action 4.11. Improve knowledge and understanding of species and ecosystems. Action 4.12. Use a combination of in situ and ex situ conservation to maintain species and genetic resources. Action 4.13. Harvest wild resources sustainably. Action 4.14. Support management of wild renewable resources by local communities; and increase incentives to conserve biological diversity.
• 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Convention of Biological Diversity Article 7 (inventory),  Artcle 8 (conservation); Agenda 21; Statement of Forest Principles; Was signed by Bush and by Clinton but the Senate refused to ratify in 1994 Treaty Implementation Without Treaty ratification
• 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Commission on Sustainable Development;
• International Environmental Governance;  Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of UNEP in which the role of UNEP is confirmed as the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, that promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and that serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment;
• 1994 Convention to Combat Desertification;
• 1994 Strategic Plan for the US Biosphere Reserve Program ; "Protected Area" is the U.S. term for UNESCO's "Core Area" Similarly, "managed Use Area" is the U.S. term for UNESCO's "Buffer Zone," and "Zone of Cooperation" is the U.S. term for UNESCO's "Transition Area;" USA-UN Man and Biosphere & World Heritage Sites; US MAB Program site; The US MAB Concept and Program—A Chronology Addressing Biosphere Reserves
• 1995 GBA - Global Biodiversity Assessment
• Millennium Development Project;  Millenium Development Goals
  • UN People's Millenium Assembly;  Towards A Peoples Assembly (of NGOs) by the Year 2000; Vision 2020 ; (proposed World Parliament); proposed Creation of the Global Ministry of Environment
• The Earth Council; National Councils for Sustainable Development (NCSDs) Rio 5+;
• The Earth Charter Programme ;
• CIEL Human Rights, Environment, and Economic Development: Existing and Emerging Standards in International Law and Global Society
• World Environmental Organization (WEO)
• International Court of the Environment (ICE)
  • Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
• The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Centre (ITP-Centre);
• University For Peace;
• International Institute for Sustainable Development Sustainable Develoment Gateway
• (UN brochure) The tenth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (known as csd 10)is acting as the global Preparatory Committee for the Johannesburg Summit;
• United Nations Johannesburg Summit 2002 (Rio+10) "What we need," Desai said, "is to build a system, a set of rules, or an environment, that will enable globalization to become a more positive force for improving all people's lives." This new environment, he cautioned, must involve greater international cooperation, particularly in the areas of finance, technology transfer, debt relief and trade, and equity."
• Earth Summit 2002. IISD Linkages Portal to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002); 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity; "From One Earth to One World"was signed by President Clinton. When Clinto became President, he directed the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop the Ecosystem Management Policy. 21 Ecoregions were identified for protection. (The Senate refused to ratify the treaty.) 
• Second Nature... "is dedicated to accelerating a process of transformation in higher education. We guide and nurture these institutions in their quest to make sustainability an integral part of the institution and to help expand their efforts to make human activity sustainable. In a sustainable world, we imagine society would celebrate cultural diversity and increase the biological diversity and complexity of the ecosystems on which we all depend. Simultaneously, we would have stabilized population and resource consumption at a level that is within the carrying capacity of Earth's ecosystems. To attain this, we must reinvent the world socially, economically and environmentally" Resources;
• Merciless Green Austerity System On The Agenda For The UN's 2012 Earth Summit “We are currently transitioning from a world of plenty into one in which the planet’s resources have been compromised in their ability to sustain our routines. We are also in a world of global economic and social multi-level governance.”

“What is a Green Economy?

A green economy ensures fair use of ecological resources and sinks at re-generational and bio-assimilation rates. Building such an economy entails the following components:

1. Full-cost pricing: Incorporate ecological degradation into the cost of goods and services (with compensation for the poor).

2. Waste = Food: Design production to reuse all pre- and post-consumer waste as industrial or biological inputs.

3. Sustainable ethic: Foster cultures that recognize ecological scarcity and inspire consumers and producers to desire only what is most necessary and ecologically sustainable.

4. Progressive green taxes: Tax resource and sink use instead of income.

5. Wealth = Environmental Health: Create measures of value that preserve the intrinsic worth of nature” --Beyond Rio+20: Governance For A Green Economy

• Agenda 21

• GAGs (Green Advocacy Groups) "Going for the Green"
• Miscellaneous articles of Henry Lamb 1995-1996

National

• The Wildlands Project ; Core reserves are wilderness areas that supposedly allow biodiversity to flourish. "It is estimated," claims Noss, "that large carnivores and ungulates require reserves on the scale of 2.5 to 25 million acres. ...For a minimum viable population of 1000 (large mammals), the figures would be 242 million acres for grizzly bears, 200 million acres for wolverines, and 100 million acres for wolves. Core reserves should be managed as roadless areas (wilderness). All roads should be permanently closed."
• Rewilding Dots & Big Picture Series Index: From Pre-Dots to Purpose of a Land Use Plan
• 2010 Moving Mountains Extinction Symposium: Dave Foreman (video);    A Dialogue with Derrick Jensen
• Dr. Michael Soule (video)
• Range Magazine interview with Reed Noss
• Noss: selecting focus species (1) identify and protect populations of rare and endangered species; (2) maintain healthy populations of species that play critical roles in their ecosystems (keystone species) or that have pragmatic value as "umbrellas" (species that require large wild areas to survive, and thus if protected will bring many species along with them) or "flagships" (charismatic species that serve as popular symbols for conservation); (3) protect high-quality examples of all natural communities; and (4) identify and manage greater ecosystems or landscapes for both biodiversity conservation and sustainable human use.
• Conservation Biology and the protection of large rivers
• Rewilding North America: a vision for conservation in the 21st century  By Dave Foreman; Rewilding institute;   Criteria for Ecological Wilderness
• SER Wildland Network Workshop: Ecosystem Restoration Programs
• Natural ecosystem connectivity for continental-scale conservation
• United States Geological Survey Report to the Ecological Restoration for Continental Conservation Workshop
• Wildlands Project History
• Western Governors Western Wildlife Habitat Council To coordinate and manage implementation of the WGA Wildlife Corridors Initiative Report; policy resolution 07-01, Protecting Wildlife Migration Corridors and Crucial Wildlife Habitat in the West.; Conserving Wildlife Corridors and Crucial Wildlife Habitat in the West 10-10
•  The Elements of a Wildlands Network Conservation Plan An Example from the Sky Islands
• The Re-Wilding Institute Soulè and Noss “recognize three independent features that characterize contemporary rewilding: • Large, strictly protected core reserves (the wild) • Connectivity • Keystone species.” In shorthand, these are “the three C’s: Cores, Corridors, and Carnivores.”
• The Ecological Society of America; Report: The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (SBI): An Ecological Research Agenda: Envirolink - Ecosystem links
• Developing a Habitat Linkage Network for the North Coastal Basin and Klamath-Siskiyou Regions of Northwestern California
• The North American Wildlands Network:  Four MegaLinkages

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• The Spine of the Continent Initiative
• http://www.undueinfluence.com/wildlands_disambiguation.htm Information on the re-wilding crowd; Ron Arnold's Green Tracking Library
• Battered Communities - How Wealthy Private Foundations, Grant-driven environmental groups and activist federal employees combine to systmatically cripple rural economies - Center for Defense of Free Enterprise
• The Wilderness Society
• Craighead Institute
• American Wildlands
• The Wildlands Network (Wildlands Project)
• Conservation Biology;   CB
• Environmental Diplomacy
• EO President’s Council on Sustainable Development;  
• President's Council on Sustsainability 1993-1999;
• Rio Declaration;
• US MAB ;
• VP Gore "Earth in the Balance": "We must make the rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle for civilization.... [this] means using every policy and program, every law and institution, every treaty and alliance, every tactic and strategy, every plan and course of action...to halt the destruction of the environment and to preserve and nurture our ecological system. Minor shifts in policy, marginal adjustments in ongoing programs, moderate improvements in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change -- these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public's desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle, and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary." pp 269, 274 ;
• Ecosystem management - (Clinton Administration) Vice President Al Gore called for the federal government to adopt an approach for ensuring sustainable economic development while also sustaining the environment through ecosystem management. To carry out the environmental mandate of the National Performance Review, in August 1993 the White House Office of Environmental Policy (OEP) took the lead for the federal initiative on ecosystem management by establishing the Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force (IEMTF) to carry out Vice President Gore's mandate. iI January, 1996, the White House executed a Memorandum of Understanding to Foster the Ecosystem Approach (OEP 1996) that was signed by the 14 federal agencies that had participated in the interagency task force on ecosystem management.
  • [Al Gore, Improving Environmental Management, Accompanying Report of the National Performance Review (Washington: Government Printing Office, September 1993), p. 11. (IEMTF) "The President should issue a directive that: establishes a national policy to encourage sustainable economic development and ensure sustainable ecosystems through ecosystem management;"
  • Ecosystem Management Coordinating Group (IEMCG), which focused the resources of 20 federal agencies, to achieve "comprehensive integrated resource management" on an ecosystem basis; ; GAO Report; CRS Report;
• President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC 1995) established an Ecosystem Working Group The NTSC concluded (1) that pursuit of improved quality of life often threatens the sustainability of ecosystems, (2) continued decreases in productivity and vitality of ecosystems which can result in increased deterioration of ecosystems that are incompletely understood, (3) the basis for human development has been the availability of healthy natural ecosystems and the resources they provide, and (4) that to sustain further human development, the ecological base to support it must be sustained.
• When Congress refused to pass legislation to establish the National Biological Service in 1993, DOI Secretary Babbitt unilaterally created it and shifted funding to it.
• Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative
  • NEPA and Ecosystem management
• UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves;
• (Compilation) Map Simulated Reserve and Corridor System to Protect Biodiversity
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network;  
• Global Urban Rural Mapping Project
• Economics and Sustainable Development
• Information Provided by the Government of United States to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Fifth Session 7-25 April 1997, Implementation of Agenda 21: Review of Progress Made Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992; Other Reports including Towards a Sustainable America: Advancing Prosperity, Opportunity, and a Healthy Environment for the 21st Century, May 1999 ;Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators; International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD); Education for Sustainability;
• USEPA Smart Growth; About Smart Growth; Smart Growth Strategy; Smart Growth Online ; This Is Smart Growth (2006, International City/County Management Association and Smart Growth Network); Getting to Smart Growth, Volumes I and II (2002 and 2003, International City/County Management Association and Smart Growth Network)
• ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability
• National Council for Science and the Environment;  
• Man and the Biosphere species databases; UCSB Biogeography Lab; ICESS - Institute for Computational Earth System Science UCSB; SITES An Analytical Toolbox for Ecoregional Conservation Planning (TNC eco-region based conservation Overview); The Biodiversity Research Consortium (BRC)
• REO (Regional Ecosystem Office) GIS (NWFP); Land Use Allocations
• Powerpoint presentation on the USDA and its alleged implementation of Agenda 21 "sustainable communities" and smart growth policies
• Tom Deweese on sustainable development; three e's - social equity (justice), economic opportunity and ecological integrity; American Policy Center
• President Obama E.O. on sustainability
• Partnership for sustainable communities (HUD, EPA, DOT Partnership) also USFS, NOAA includes NGOs as well
  • Smart Growth; Our Built and Natural Environments
  • Smart Growth and Open Space Conservation
  • Making Smart Growth Happen
  • Team-EJ (Environmental Justice)(HUD, EPA, DOT)
  • Trust for Public Lands LandVote; Source Protection Handbook;
  • NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials); Developing Sustainable Communities; Community Resource Inventory
  • The Conservation Fund Strategic Conservation; Green Infrastructure (Core Hub and Corridor); Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century; Green Infrastructure Community of Practice ; Project Profiles
  • International City/County Management Association - ICMA Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities
  • Land Trust Alliance ;  A Plan for the Land- Strategic Conservation Planning
• Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force
• President Clinton's Memorandum; The Roadless Initiative (USDA-FS); The National Forest System Roadless Areas Initiative; Roadless - Wilderness Society: CRS-National Forest System Roadless Area Initiatives; Timeline in the battle for the Roadless Rule
• USFSAll Lands [Management] platform; USFS proposed Forest Planning Rule; Draft All-Lands Approach for the Proposed Forest Service Planning Rule ; Western Forestry Leadership Coalition Strategic Plan 2011; Private Forests Public Benefits; Cooperating Across Bopundaries; Partnership to conserve open space across rural America; Four Threats to the Health of the Nation's Forests and Grasslands; Threats to At-Risk Species in America’s Private Forests; Open Space Conservation Strategy; Sustaining America's Urban Trees and Forests: Forest-land conversion, ecosystem services, and economic issues for policy: a review; A sensitivity analysis of "Forests on the Edge: Housing Development on America's Private Forests." ; A closer look at forests on the edge: future development on private forests in three states. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-758; National forests on the edge: development pressures on America's national forests and grasslands.
• Tax Dollar Tracker: Despite Claims of Fiscal Responsibility, Budget Dramatically Increases Spending for Government Land Acquisition
• Green Economy - A green economy is one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2010). A green economy is a economy or economic development model based on sustainable development and a knowledge of ecological economics. Its most distinguishing feature from prior economic regimes is direct valuation of natural capital and nature's services as having economics value (see TEEB and Bank of Natural Capital) and a full cost accounting regime in which costs externalized onto society via ecosystems are reliably traced back to, and accounted for as liabilities of, the entity that does the harm or neglects an asset.
• Van Jones Green Economy: President Obama’s Green Economy

California

• 1999 Noss and Strittholt A Science-based Conservation Assessment for the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion; The Sikiyou Project
• The Nature Conservancy Klamath Mountains Ecoregional Assessment 2004
• The Modoc Bioregion
• Ecological Subregions of CA
• The CA Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts
• The California Continued Resource Investment Strategy Program CCRISP (California Legacy program)
• ICE - Information Center for the Environment (UC Davis); ;
• According to the CA Water Update, California's water policy is patterned after Europe's
  • WFD EU Water Framework Directive ; Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) for the Water Framework Directive; Implementation;
  • Integrated River Basin Management Planning (RBMP)

  • DWR, the California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources implemented Shared Vision Planning; brochure

• California Wilderness Campaign
  • N. CA Wilderness
• Cal Wild Biodiversity linkages needed
• • Potential Wilderness and wild rivers
  • Map of Wilderness, Roadless and Citizens'Wilderness Inventory
  • Klamath Siskiyou ownership
  • Roadless area prioritization
  • Proposed reserve design I and II
• California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project: A Strategy for Conserving a Connected California
• CA Legacy Project;  Digital Conservation Atlas; CA Watershed Portal
• Appendix B In Spreadsheet Format
• Appendix C in Spreadsheet Format
• Lookup Table for Column Labels - Detailed Characteristics of Natural Landscape Blocks

Support Materials Fact Sheet (PDF) Executive Summary (PDF, 7 pages with map) What It Is/ What It Is Not (PDF) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Data (PDF) Technical Presentation (PDF) Speaker's Notes for Presentation (PDF) CalTrans Web Site - with links to videos of recorded meetings, agendas, summaries, handouts, and presentations.

• California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project (CalTrans &  DFG)
• California Wildlife: Conservation Challenges, California's Wildlife Action Plan;
• California Wildlife Action Plan;    Chapter on the Klamath
• CAPPs - Conceptual Area Protection Plan - targeting an area for aquisition
• CA SB 375, the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 already requires "sustainable communities." SB 375 instructs the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set regional emissions reduction targets from passenger vehicles. The Metropolitan Planning Organization [urban areas primarily http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Planning_Organization] for each region must then develop a "Sustainable Communities Strategy" (SCS) that integrates transportation, land-use and housing policies to plan for achievement of the emissions target for their region.
• Climate Change, Land Use, And Infrastructure Web Portal
• http://www.sustainability2030.com/sustainabilityclips/2009/10/20/california-sb-375-sustainable-communities-strategy.html
  http://scanph.org/node/2274
  http://www.transformca.org/sb375/implementation
  http://www.pcl.org/resourcecenter/sb375.html
  http://ab32.org/
• California Strategic Growth Council ;  Exec. Order S-04-10;  "Vision California" - Report Charting our Future (New Land Use Policy); (Exec. Sum); Rapid Fire Modeling
  • California Consensus on Federal Transportation Authorization for 2009
• CA Health in All Policies Task Force
• California Forward; Transforming government; Making California Work Again:  "Smart Government" Restructuring State-Local Relationships - Restructuring, a Fundamental Framework; "Regional coordination"
• CARB Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan
• CAl EPA Environmental Justice Strategy
• CALTrans "Regional Blueprints"2010,  Regional Progress Report tracking progress toward sustainability; Map of Metropolitan Planning Organizations  (MPOs) and Region Transportation Planning Agencies
• Smart Growth; Smart Growth America; Smart Growth EPA; EPA Publications;  LEED-ND; New Urbanism; Smart Growth CA; The Planning Penalty - O'Toole; O'Toole: Well, California is definitely the worst. Nationwide, I estimate that people paid about $300 to 350 billion in extra costs for housing in 2005 because of the planning penalty. Half of that was in California.

LOCAL

• (1995) Freedom.org Klamath/Siskiyou Region - The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) has declared this area to be of Global Botanical Significance, one of seven such areas in North America and 200 worldwide. An effort is being made to designate the area as a UN Biosphere Reserve, according to The Wildlands Project. The NGO coordinating the work is the Klamath Forest Alliance; Reed Noss, author of The Wildlands Project, was selected to direct the work. The project seeks not only to develop a successful bioregional plan for Klamath/Siskiyou, but also to develop methods for planning and implementation that are transferrable to other regions. The area covers approximately four million hectares, about one-third in Oregon and the balance in California. The project is funded by the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the Foundation for Deep Ecology, The Wildlands Project, the U.S.D.A. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.⁵
• Legacy, The Landscape Connection;  Vision Map
• Klamath Corridors - http://www.brunswickme.org/planning/ruralsmartgrowth/rbsg.Final.Report.revised.1.08.04.pdf (very slow download)  "Noss (1987), however, argues in favor of corridors by noting that natural systems are far more connected than those heavily shaped by humans. It is with this argument and the abundance of information regarding the perceived benefits of corridors that corridor projects have been proposed around the world. Examples of existing regional wildlife corridor projects in North America include the Klamath Corridors in the Klamath National Forest (Pace 1991), the Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor along approximately 450 miles of that river (Harris and Scheck 1991), and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Barker 1997).
  "The Klamath Corridors Project was developed by the Klamath Forest Alliance, a coalition of grassroot environmental and community organizations located in and around the Klamath Forest on the California/Oregon border. The project is based on the premise that the most effective way to discourage effects of forest fragmentation is to retain or re-establish natural connectivity. The project makes maximum use of existing reserved (public or otherwise protected) land, since these areas tend to be the largest blocks of unfragmented habitat in a region, and uses corridors that consist of entire drainages and ridgelines. "
• The Siskiyou Project (Siskiyou Wild Rivers)
• Speech: Kalamath Siskiyou bio-region- Endangered Species
• Understanding Sustainable Development- Agenda 21
• Agenda 21 Part I: global economic disaster in the making
• Agenda 21 Part III: Maryland County abolishes Agenda 21 – now it's your turn
• Agenda 21 Update: more critical evidence from the land of fruits and nuts
• Attention Comrades…U.N. AGENDA 21
• Smart Growth- Sustainable Development Attention Comrades?U.N. AGENDA 21
• Agenda 21 and ICLEI booted
• UN's International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) ?The Plan??Agenda 21 and the Death Knell of Liberty

OTHER LIVING 'GREEN"

• College of the Siskiyous Sustainable Communities Program
• Transition US (An international re-localization and community sustainability movement called “Transition Network” - Transitioning from Oil Dependence to Local Resilience)
  • Transition 101
  • Shasta Commons (transition town)
  • Mt. Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center Regional Conservation Plan

   

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Environmental Resources on the Internet; Eco-Net; Environmental Web Directory; Ecotopia Links; California Groups;  A Digest of the A&T (Alternative and Transformational) movement(s) A Chronicle of the Gaian Cultural Transition [ individuals who "believe that the whole earth is in a period of transition for the homocentric Industrial Culture based on self-interest, survival of the fittest, and materialism to an ecocentric Gaiain Culture based on belonging, cooperation, community and mutual respect."]