AGENDA 21/ RE-WILDING/ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT/GLOBAL WARMING

• 1968 The Club of Rome; Limits to Growth 30 year update Club of Rome  "Limits to Growth"
• NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
• UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
• The UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
• World Wildlife Fund for Nature
• World Resources Institute WRI; Global Forest Watch; Earth Trends; Green Power Market Development Group;
• The United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) calls on the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation that requires significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Coalition members include WRI, NRDC, Environmental Defense, Pew Center, Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, DuPont, FPL Group, GE, Lehman Brothers, PG&E, and PNM Resources.
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development; Vision 2050; (General Motors, DuPont, 3M, Deutsche Bank, Coca-Cola, Sony, Oracle Corporation, BP, Wal-Mart, and Royal Dutch Shell.)
• 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.
  • IUCN Linkages In the Landscape The Role of Corridors and Connectivity in Wildlife Conservation 2003
• International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS),
• International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau, IWRB (now Wetlands International)
• International Council for Bird Preservation, ICBP (now BirdLife International)
• BIONET
• TheFutureWeWant.org The Future We Want (FWW) is a global initiative to envision what we want our lives and communities to be like 20 years from now
• 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;
  • NGO may apply to any non-profit organization. NGO Network
  • CSO designation applies only to those NGOs that are accredited by the United Nations and hold "consultative status;
  • UN Commission on Sustainable Development; UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization -   DESD Decade of Education For Sustainable Development ESD is a transformative learning process and aims to change the way people interact with the world
• UN Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs - Division for Sustainable Development
• Society for Conservation Biology
• CIEL Human Rights, Environment, and Economic Development: Existing and Emerging Standards in International Law and Global Society
• ICMM International Council on Mining and Metals - Sustainable Mining
• World Environmental Organization (WEO)
• International Court of the Environment (ICE)
  • Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
• IULA International Union of Local Authorities
• Conservation International
• The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Centre (ITP-Centre);
• University For Peace;
• National Councils for Sustainable Development (NCSDs)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Global Environmental Change IPEC
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): Memorandums of Collaboration; Voting Participants
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
• Global Forest Information Service
• The Earth Council Alliance 1992 Earth Council; (Maurice Strong, Gorbachev and Steven Rockefeller) Earth Charter
• Global Environment and Technology Foundation - sustainable development worldwide; The Water Stewardship and Replenish Report, January 2011
• Meridian International Institute (Global Governance) and ties with Roundtable on Sustainable Forests; 
• Global Justice Movement - "Just Third Way" graphical overview; "Real Third Way" Basics
• Gaia Foundation; Eco-cultural mapping
• Stockholm Environment Institute - WEAP water evaluation and planning system
• International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Green Cross
• Society for Ecological Restoration International
• Greenpeace "The Climate Timebomb",
• Global Water Partnership - mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels.; YouTube Channel founded with the support of the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank; IRWM IRWM is emerging as an accepted alternative to the sector-by-sector, top-down management style that has dominated in the past. The basis of IRWM is that the many different uses of finite water resources are interdependent. Integrated Water Resources Management is a cross-sectoral policy approach, designed to replace the traditional, fragmented sectoral approach to water resources and management that has led to poor services and unsustainable resource use. IRWM is based on the understanding that water resources are an integral component of the ecosystem, a natural resource, and a social and economic good. IRWM strategies are based on the four Dublin Principles presented at the World Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.: Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life, development and the environment. Water development and management should be based on a participatory approach, involving users, planners and policy-makers at all levels. Women play a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water.Water is a public good and has a social and economic value in all its competing uses. Integrated water resources management is based on the equitable and efficient management and sustainable use of water; Managing demand This includes adopting cost recovery policies, utilizing water-efficient technologies, and establishing decentralized water management authorities. The IRWM Planning Cycle
• Water Footprint Network - standards and guidelines for water footprint accounting and water neutrality
• CEO Water Mandate (Global Compact)
• Global Water Challenge
• Water Witness International
• Water Environment Federation
• Alliance for Water Stewardship - Promote responsible use of fresh water that is socially and economically beneficial as well as environmentally sustainable.
• CARE
• Community Watersheds Partnership Program (CWPP) (USAID) implemented by CARE ; (1) (2)
• Global Exchange Rights Based Organizing (Rights of Nature)
• Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index a sophisticated survey instrument to measue the population's general level of well-being. First developed by the Centre for Bhutan Studies, a "westernized version was developed in Canada. The four pillars of GNH are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance.
• NEF (New Economics Foundation) Happy Planet Index; Happy Planet Charter;  The Great Transition - the Great Revaluing - make good things cheap and bad things expensive. Building social and environmental value should be the central goal of policy-making; the Great Redistribution - redistribution of both income and wealth would create value as resources are moved from those who do not need them to those who do. Goal to share working hours and tasks more equally. Foster a redistribution of ownership to create a form of ‘economic democracy’, where company shares are progressively transferred to employees in a resurgence of mutual and co-operative ownership forms. Great Rebalancing - markets but where pricing reflects true social and environmental costs and benefits, and a broader definition of "public goods" Great Localisation moving real power away from the centre to devolved "democratic" (stakeholder) bodies. Great Reskilling returning to appropriate scale for agriculture, manufacturing and the arts. Great Economic Irrigation taxing environmental and social ‘bads’ such as pollution, consumption and short-term speculation. consumption taxes reflecting the social and environmental costs of goods Great Interdependence wealth transfer to developing countries.
• TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) study Ecological and Economic Foundation Draft Chapters : Bank of Natural Capital
• UN Water
• ICMA International City/County Management Assoc. Smart Growth
• COHAB Initiative (Co-operation on Health and Biodiversity)
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• IIED International Institute for Environment and Development
• International Water Management Institute
• International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM)
• International Institute for Sustainable Development Sustainable Develoment Gateway
• 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;
• GAGs (Green Advocacy Groups) "Going for the Green"
• Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
• Pachamama Alliance
• Climate Action Network
• Katoomba Group Payment for Ecosystem Services
• Sustainable Development Policy and Practice - A knowledgebase of international activities preparing for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
• Assessments:
  • Forest Resource Assessment (FRA)
  • Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA)
  • Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO)
  • Global Environment Outlook (GEO)
  • Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA)
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA)
  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
  • Ozone Assessment
  • World Resources Report (WRR)
  • World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
• ICSF (International Collective in Support of Fishworkers) expectations regarding Rio +20

   

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National Organizations/movements/ eco-philosophies

• 2010 Moving Mountains Extinction Symposium: Dave Foreman (video);   A Dialogue with Derrick Jensen
  • Rewilding North America: a vision for conservation in the 21st century  By Dave Foreman (former Earth First! - Confessions of an Eco-Warrior); Criteria for Ecological Wilderness; Wild Earth
  • 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.”
  • Dr. Michael Soule (video) ; Soule 50% of U.S. land base in Wilderness and most of the rest managed for conservation objectives
  • 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.
  • 1992 The Wildlands Project ; Reed F. Noss, "The Wildlands Project," Wild Earth, Special Issue, 1992, pp.13- 15. (Wild Earth is published by the Cenozoic Society, P.O. Box 492, Canton, NY 13617). 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."Wildlands Project History ; Funded by The Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society
  • See also North American Wilderness Recovery Inc; and Wild Earth Society, Incorporated; EarthDesign.com
  • The Wildlands Network (Wildlands Project);  Wildlands Networks Design (From the Wildlands Project) ; EPA website on the Wildlands Network; new connectivity planning tools, such as CircuitScape (http://www.circuitscape.org/Circuitscape/Welcome.html) or FunConn (http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/starmap/funconn_index.htm)
• Manitou Foundation
• Green Visions Plan
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (third edition), by Tom Tietenberg; Harper Collins, 1992; ISBN 0-673-46328-1.
• 1994 Sierra Club vision of 21 ecoregions in North America; Smart Growth
• SER Wildland Network Workshop: Ecosystem Restoration Programs
• Rewilding Dots & Big Picture Series Index: From Pre-Dots to Purpose of a Land Use Plan
• The Ecological Society of America; Report: The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (SBI): An Ecological Research Agenda: Envirolink - Ecosystem links
• Conservation Biology and the protection of large rivers
• Natural ecosystem connectivity for continental-scale conservation
• Gross National Happiness index USA; The Four Pillars of GNH • the promotion of equitable and sustainable socio-economic development • the preservation and promotion of cultural values • the conservation of the natural environment, and • the establishment of good governance.
• American Water Reources Assoc. “Participants in the national collaboration process spearheaded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers defined IWRM in this manner: ‘IWRM aims to develop and manage water, land, and related resources, while considering multiple viewpoints of how water should be managed (i.e. planned, designed and constructed, managed, evaluated, and regulated). It is a goal-directed process for controlling the development and use of river, lake, ocean, wetland, and other water assets in ways that integrate and balance stakeholder interests, objectives, and desired outcomes across levels of governance and water sectors for the sustainable use of the earth’s resources’.”
• Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
• Western Climate Initiative
• The Nature Conservancy - Alliance for Water Stewardship - North America Regional Initiatives (NARI)
• 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
• (Compilation) Map Simulated Reserve and Corridor System to Protect Biodiversity
• Transition towns
• The North American Wildlands Network:  Four MegaLinkages

• The Spine of the Continent Initiative
• The Wilderness Society
  • Wilderness Society National Landscape Conservation System
    • Threats and Challenges failure to recognize the conservation mandate
    • State of the NLCS First Assessment (Wilderness Society)
• Wildlife Corridor Conservation Act introduced in Congress H. R. 5101 federal agencies in cooperation with the States and Indian tribes, shall develop a Habitat and Corridors Information System, that shall include maps and descriptions of projected shifts in habitats and corridors of fish and wildlife species in response to climate change; and to assess the impacts of existing development on habitats and corridors." The System is charged with identifying, prioritizing and describing "key parcels of non-Federal land (i.e. state lands and private property) located within the boundaries of units of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Forest System, or National Grassland System that are critical to maintenance of wildlife habitat and migration corridors."
• Craighead Institute
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy- Large Landscape Conservation Network
  • brought together Chicago Wilderness; Sierra Business Council; Cascade Agenda; Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent; Ozark Partnership; Yellowstone to Yukon   (Site 2); Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition;  Pinelands Preservation Alliance; and Wildlands and Woodlands. They also examined several existing networks, including the Land Trust Alliance; National Alliance of Heritage Areas; CAMNet, and the National Network of Forest Practitioners
  • Large Landscape Conservation: A Strategic Framework for Policy and Action
  • Regional Governance - examples
    • Guide to Successful Local Government Collaboration in America’s Regions
    • Translating a Regional Vision into Action
    • American Planning Assoc. Regional Planning
    • Alliance for Regional Stewardship (Monograph Series); Empowering Regions; The Triumph of the Commons; Regional Stewardship & Collaborative Governance
• University of Montana Working Across Boundaries - regional governance; - Principles of Regional Collaboration
• Weil Program on Collaborative Governance (Harvard) On Collaborative Governance;
• Wildlife Conservation Society;  Spectacular Migrations in the Western U.S. (Connectivity Corridors)
• American Wildlands
• Tides Foundation
• Rockefeller Foundation
• McArthur Foundation
• Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). 2008. Adapting California’s Water Management to Climate Change. 
• Pew Charitable Trust; Campaign for America's Wilderness; Pacific Fish Conservation; Global Ocean Legacy; PEW Center on Global Climate Change. . Climate Change 101: Science and Impacts. Part of “Climate Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change.”http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/climate_change_101
• Surdna Foundation
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation;   Collaborative Governance
• Bullit Foundation
• W. Alton Jones Foundation, now known as Blue Moon Fund
• Thomas Berry Foundation
• Center for Earth Jurisprudence
• Ocean Conservancy
• Center for Economic and Social Justice - the "Just Third Way"; Basic Principles of Economic and Social Justice
• Sustainable Development Logo - Three overlapping rings meaning: Social Equity, Economic Prosperity and Ecological Integrity
• CELDF Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ;(Democracy School)
• Council on Foreign Relations
• National Religious Partnership for the Environment
• Trust for Public Lands LandVote; Source Protection Handbook;
• Heinz Center The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems Project 2002-2008; highlights
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network;  
• Global Urban Rural Mapping Project
• NARC (National Association of Regional Councils) Regional Government
  • COGs Councils of Government; Calcog California Association of Councils of Governments
  • AMPO (Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations); MPOs
  • Surface Transportation Policy Project -- www.transact.org/
• NEON: The story of the nation's first continental ecological observatory (Research platform - Network or Integrated Science for Sustainable management of Natural Resources); Neon
• Conservation Biology;   CB
• Celebrating 40 Years of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act: An Evolution of River Protection Strategies
• America 2050  A Land and Resources Conservation Agenda for the United States (Regional Plan Association July 8–13, 2007
• NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials); Developing Sustainable Communities; Community Resource Inventory
• 1997 The Bioreserve Strategy for Conserving Biodiversity
• 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
• 2006 Land Trusts Alliance Workshop on Strategies for the Future of Conservation
• Targeting Conservation Easements to Reduce Impacts of Private Land Development on Protected Areas
• 2008 Securing the Next Century National Parks Foundation
• Roundtable on Sustainable Forests;  RSF Action Plan
• Land Trust Alliance ;  A Plan for the Land- Strategic Conservation Planning
  • Poor economy enables public land trusts to buy land for conservation
• International City/County Management Association - ICMA Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities
• 2002 Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change, 2002 Edition (Stuart Meck, FAICP, Gen. Ed.); Summary; 2002 Community Character Act
• US EPA's Office of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities (OSEC) Sustainable Community Indicators Trainer's Workshop
• National Council for Science and the Environment; 
• The Nature Conservancy
  • SITES An Analytical Toolbox for Ecoregional Conservation Planning (The Nature Conservancy  eco-region based conservation Overview)
  • FLN Fire Learning Network
• Pacific Institute
  • The Community Strategies for Sustainability and Justice (CSSJ) Program
  • water
• National Wildlife Federation
• National Audubon Society
• Sierra Club
• UCSB Biogeography Lab; ICESS - Institute for Computational Earth System Science UCSB;  The Biodiversity Research Consortium (BRC)
• UMAS Landscape Ecology Lab CAPS system Conservation Assessment and Prioritization System - CAPS is an ecological community-based approach for assessing the ecological integrity of lands and waters and prioritizing land for habitat and biodiversity conservation.
• Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative
  • NEPA and Ecosystem management
• American Planning Assoc. 2002 Policy Guide on Smart Growth
• Emerald Cities Collaborative
• ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability; 2002 Second Agenda 21 survey;  Information on ICLEI; map of participating Mayors; ICLEIUSA - local governments for sustainability; Local Action 21; The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide; Local Sustainability Programs; National Conversation on Climate Action, ICLEI’s Communications and Outreach Guide; United Nations Programmes; Cool Mayors Green Cities: Project 60 (Idaho) ; LISC Local Initiatives Support Corporation; internatonal ICLEI Charter; http://www.portolavalley.net/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2131; Membership List; LA21 - Local Agenda 21
• Joslyn Institute for sustainable communities "Visioning For The Future"; The Five Domains of Sustainability; Best Practices for Sustainable Community Development ; Land Use (including  SACOG;   and Smart Growth Vermont)
• Community-Based Social Marketing; Fostering Sustainable Behavior
• Tools of Change
• Georgetown Climate Center
• Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative RGGI The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states have capped and will reduce CO₂ emissions from the power sector 10 percent by 2018.
• Western Climate Initiative
• Western States Water Council; (Appt. by Governors of 18 western states)  2010 workplan; Resolution on water mgt.
• Climate Solutions University -  Model Forest Policy Program (MFPP) The four steps of the community process are:1) Communities create local climate action teams; 2) Teams assess local conditions for resource vulnerabilities and action opportunities related to forest, water,  land use planning and economics; 3) Teams develop strategies and recommendations for climate adaptation; and 4) Teams implement and monitor their climate adaptation plans, later evaluating them for impacts, benefits and course adjustments. (funded by the Kresge Foundation) Student Community: The Watershed Research and Training Center – Trinity County, California
• Transportation and Climate Initiative eleven Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states, as well as the District of Columbia
• NCEAS National Center for Ecological Assessment and Synthesis ; Natural Capital Project; InVEST   Payment for Ecosystem Services
• Institute of Local Government (ILG) Sustainable Communities Learning Network has a New Featured Resource: Model Design Manual for Livable Streets; Includes Health in all policies - Including Land Use Planning
• http://www.undueinfluence.com/wildlands_disambiguation.htm Information on the re-wilding crowd; Ron Arnold's Green Tracking Library
• Second Nature Transforming Higher Education for a sustainable society
• Ecotrust
• The Natural Step
• ShoreBank Pacific
• Enterprise Cascadia /Craft 3
• Sustainable Conservation
• NGO federal grant search engine; Federal Grants Awarded to Environmental NGOs, 1997 -2001
• 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
• Tom Deweese on sustainable development; three e's - social equity (justice), economic opportunity and ecological integrity; American Policy Center