Mississippi's Green Infrastructure
Sustainable Development / U.N. Agenda 21 is alive and well and deeply embedded in our state government and in our cities and counties. Mississippi's Green Infrastructure is but one of many policies that are robbing Mississippian's of our private property, control of our property and our freedoms and it is being promoted by your tax dollars. What you see below is straight out of Agenda 21. Remember, no matter how innocent or beneficial a term or phrase may sound, if it is included in with some of the Agenda 21 buzzwords, you must look them up to see what they really mean, as I have done below. Agenda 21 has its own language and vocabulary and utilizes cookie-cutter phrases that you will find in cities, counties and state governments across the country. Please read it and learn to identify it and join us in the fight to rid our state of these stealth policies from the United Nations.
CLICK HERE to go to Mississippi's Green Infrastructure website. Below is content from the home page:
Welcome to the Mississippi Green Infrastructure Training and Resources site! Here you will find information on all the training and workshops as well as schedules, resources and policies, and the latest announcements. You can request to register for workshops through our online form, and of course, don't hesitate to contact someone on our training team should you have any questions.
This training is made possible by a grant to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Initial funding allowed MDEQ to enhance its water quality planning to help stimulate the economy and improve water quality in Mississippi with a high priority on creating projects that address green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency improvements, or other environmentally innovative activities. MDEQ, in conjunction with the North Central Resource Conservation and Development Council, The Natural Resources Initiative of MS and Pine Ridge Marketing, LLC conducted the educational materials research, established a curriculum, planned and facilitated pilot green infrastructure workshops in selected locations in Mississippi beginning in 2010.
On the RESOURCES page, there is a link to:
Mississippi Green Infrastructure Case Studies- Case Studies in pdf format from selected Communities across the State and Nation that can be used as a resource for communities interested in Green Infrastructure Training.
Strategic Conservation using a Green Infrastructure Approach -Pearl River Ross Barnett Watershed Case Study- Ridgeland, Mississippi
A Case Study from the a workshop offered in conjunction with Rezonate!, an outreach effort call to action for the Ross Barnett Reservoir Initiative encouraging people to take action to protect and restore the Reservoir.
There is a presentation from a workshop held September 13-15, 2010 at Holmes Community College in Ridgeland that provides:
- Introduction to Green Infrastructure
- Designing Your Rezonate Network
- Implementing the Rezonate Plan
Speakers were from the EPA, Mississippi State University and also included Jack Moody from The Mississippi Development Authority and Gerald McWhorther, Assistant Secretary of State, Public Lands Division
Among the stated goals (Not a complete list...just the ones of more obvious concern):
- Protect against unplanned growth - (This is generally a restriction on growth)
- FSC Certification for 16th Section Lands -
(See http://www.fsc.org/certification.html)The FSC Principles and Criteria (P&C) describe how the forests have to be managed to meet the social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual needs of present and future generations. They include managerial aspects as well as environmental and social requirements. FSC rules are the strictest and FSC’s social and environmental requirements the highest.The FSC P&C form the basis for all FSC forest management standards. Based on these 10 principles, the FSC has developed further rules (called policies or standards) that define and explain specific requirements.Here is a summary of some of the points the FSC Principles and Criteria require. Many of the points listed below will appear almost basic – but in many places even these basic requirements are not fulfilled. This is where FSC can have the biggest positive impact.- Legality verification - follow all applicable laws
- Demonstrated long-term land tenure and use rights
- Respect rights of workers, indigenous peoples’
- Equitable use and sharing of benefits
- Reduction of environmental impact of logging activiites
- Identification and appropriate management of areas that need special protection (e.g. cultural or sacred sites, habitat of endangered animals or plants)
COULD THIS IMPACT REVENUES TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM 16TH SECTION LANDS? - Retrofit subdivisions to improve stormwater management - WHAT IS THE COST OF THIS?
- Provide guidance for green developments
- Manage/protect timberland for multiple uses (recreation/wildlife) - WHOSE TIMBERLAND?
- More tree ordinances and pre-development land planning
- Establish and promote eco-tourism
- Promote conservation easements / development rights - THIS IS ONE WAY THE GOVERNMENT STEALS YOUR LAND!
- Raise awareness of a coordinated review plan - THIS IS NOT GOOD. Take a look at this Florida website that outlines a coordinated review:
http://www.floridajobs.org/community-planning-and-development/programs/comprehensive-planning/amendment-submittal-and-processing-guidelines/state-coordinated-review
Here's the first paragraph: Local governments shall transmit three copies of the complete proposed comprehensive plan or plan amendment to all of the review agencies immediately following the first public hearing. It basically requires any revision to a local government's comprehensive plan to go through a complicated and extensive review process by various government review agencies with the final decision by the STATE LAND PLANNING AGENCY according to a Florida statute! - Incorporate the GI (Green Infrastructure Plan) into the Rankin County Comprehensive Plan
- Work with Rankin County Board of Supervisors and Pearl River Management District to improve land use controls/enforcement by end of 2010.
- Have Mississippi Forrestry Association persuade Secretary of State to require FSC by 2012. (See No. 2 above)
- Provide public education about GI (Green Infrastructure) priorities by 2012
- Develop statewide school with emphasis on GI and environment
- All streams off 303d by 2018 (See http://www.deq.state.ms.us/MDEQ.nsf/page/TWB_Total_Maximum_Daily_Load_Section)
- Establish land trusts - THIS IS ANOTHER WAY THE GOVERNMENT STEALS YOUR LAND!
- Rural outreach programs - Funded by federal grant money that extends government control into the rural areas. (See http://www.coruralhealth.org/programs/loanrepayment/crop.htm)
- Design and market a greenway / blueway in the watershed - More government encroachment and reasons to take your land 'for the greater good'.
See http://www.gowanusbydesign.com/GbD_site/Blue_and_Green.html: "...greenways and blueways connect urban retail centers, extend the public transportation system, increase the economic opportunities for recreational spending (rental of in-line skates, bicycles, canoes, personal transporters, etc.), increase adjacent property values, and provide environmental buffer zones around developed areas." - Conduct a tree inventory - This is like registering your gun. Once the government has inventoried your trees, they can then tell you what you can and cannot do with your trees. See http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/forest/fact8.htm
- Create handbook / electronic toolbox of GI principles for public/group education - This is part of the propaganda machine to help us learn to think in new ways, to change the paradigm so that we are not only mindful of the environment, but ruled by the whims of those who create rules for unelected officials to subject us to in order to achieve global control and theft of our natural resources, private property and individual liberties.
LAND ALREADY PROTECTED - THIS IS REFERRING TO LAND ALREADY OWNED AND/OR CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT:
- National Forrest
- Wildlife Management Area
- Natchez Trace and Viewshed
- Ross Barnett Reservoir
POTENTIAL LAND CONSERVATION - TYPICAL GOOD SOUNDING, BUT WHAT IS THE TRUE MEANING?
- Timber Land Management
- Land Trust
- Preserve Agricultural Lands - See http://www.mass.gov/envir/smart_growth_toolkit/pages/mod-ag.html - This is where they tell the farmer or rural land owner that he cannot sell or subdivide his land for a housing development (they don't want housing in the rural areas and it devalues the land), but they do so under the guise of preserving agriculture, which they also want to destroy).
- The goals of agricultural preservation in Massachusetts vary depending on the unique situations of each community. In some rural communities, the goal of agricultural preservation is to enable existing farmlands to remain viable through the use of restrictions programs and marketing projects or tax breaks. Other more suburban communities may want to see existing agricultural lands developed in ways that decrease the impacts from conventional subdivision activity and preserve significant amounts of the open areas. In urban areas, the focus may be less on preservation and more on providing access to agricultural opportunities not often found in densely developed areas.There are a variety of ways to protect or promote agricultural opportunities in Massachusetts. The tools that are used will depend on the opportunities faced by a community and their goals for preserving or creating agricultural spaces:
- Riparian buffers - ANOTHER RED FLAG! http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/sri/riparian5.pdf (see below)
The term riparian buffer is used to describe lands adjacent to streams where vegetation is strongly influenced by the presence of water. They are often thinlines-of-green containing native grasses, flowers, shrubs and treesthat line the stream banks. They are also called vegetated buffer zones. A healthy riparian area is evidence of wise land use management...Depending on the surrounding land use and area typography, riparian buffers should range from 25 to 100 feet wide on each side of the stream.
This is a method through which the government restricts use of your land. See more below:
Practices to avoid: -
Straightening sections of streams
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Removing streamside shrubs, trees and other vegetation
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Farming up to the edge of a stream
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Allowing livestock access to the riparian zone
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Operating heavy equipment in the riparian zone
To listen to a personal account, listen to the archived radio program on our Home page as Orlean Khoele tells how this happened to her in Sonoma County, California.
HUBS & LINKS - This is the interconnected system of government lands that is part of THE WILDLANDS PROJECT. There is a growing demand for acquiring lands to complete this framework and it is being accomplished through Land Trusts, Conservation Easements, redlining, critical habitat designations, blighting, wetlands determinations and controlled and devalued by restrictions through zoning, decreased or discontinued services, federal monies which come with control, and a host of other seemingly innocent ways that government and non-government agencies (NGOs) present to the public in meetings like the one described here in Ridgeland. They generally follow the same format of holding a meeting to get the much needed public input (ideas they consider bad are discarded or ignored) and public buyin to a pre-determined result.
CHECK OUT THE FUNDING SOURCES....too many to list here, but include the EPA, the Mississippi Development Authority, the Natural Resources Initiative of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, the Tennessee Valley Authority
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