How we got to Plan Bay Area and the Sleazy World of Politics, Money and Power

How we got to Plan Bay Area

 

 

Population Council created in 1952, founded by John D. Rockefeller 3^rd

http://www.popcouncil.org/about/timeline

 

Nixon Administration

Rockefeller Commission report: Population and the American Future

http://www.population-security.org/rockefeller/001_population_growth_and_the_american_future.htm

 

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/

 

US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

http://www.epa.gov/

 

Environmental Quality Council Reports:

1. The Unfinished Agenda

www.geraldbarney.com/Rockefeller_Brothers_Fund/Unfinished.pdf

 

2. Use of Land

 

Environmental Protection goes global: United Nations

UN Bruntland Commission report Our Common Future, the three E's: equity, environment economy the pillars of Sustainable Development

www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf

http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=122

http://www.un-documents.net/index.htm

http://www.un-documents.net/vp-d.htm

 

UN Agenda 21 (international environmental management system)

National land use plan changes our urban, suburban and rural land use to urban, open space, agriculture and wildand/habitat.

 

http://www.sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/.../Agenda21.pdf

UN Biodiversity Assessment

http://www.un.org/earthwatch/biodiversity/assessment.html

Unsustainable:

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/what-is-unsustainable/

 

Bush Administration

Signed on to the 1992 Earth Summit Action Plan for sustainable development aka Agenda 21

http://www.c-span.org/video/?26576-1/rio-earth-summit

 

Clinton Administration

Executive Orders creates President' Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)

http://clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/

 

Sustainable Development is Smart Growth (urban) and wildlands (rural)

 

HUD grant to American Planning Association (APA)

This APA legislative guidebook was prepared under HUD

Cooperative agreement H-59-51‐CA in 2002

http://www.planning.org/growingsmart/

 

Obama Administration

Executive Order creates Rural Council

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/rural-council

 

Sustainable Development in Federal Agencies

United States federal executive branch agencies implementing sustainable development:

 

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive.shtml

 

State of California

 

AB32 Climate Change Act

http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm

 

SB375 Regional Sustainable Community Strategy

http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm

 

State Housing Element Law

Regional Housing Needs Allocations (RHNA)

http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/

 

Essential Habitat Connectivity Map

https://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/connectivity/

 

Joint Policy Committee (JPC/JPA)

http://www.abag.ca.gov/jointpolicy/

 

Regional Initiatives

http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives.html

 

Plan Bay Area

http://onebayarea.org/plan-bay-area.html

 

Follow the Money: Nonprofit Maps

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5322