BUZZARDS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOMENT

CIRCLING CHATTANOOGA

NewsWithViews -- 10/22/2011 -- Kathleen Marquardt

Sustainablists circle like Buzzards, eagerly awaiting the death knell of the Great American Experiment. They no longer worry about sneaking legislation, regulation or planning in through the back door. Certain that they are in control, they are now up-front, in fact blatantly smug about what they are doing.

Look at the words and terms in the first quarter of this one article and tell me this isn’t Sustainable Development: Stakeholder group, regional growth planning process, organize and facilitate, long-term region wide planning, public visioning, common ground solutions, localized planning effort.

To help us have tools to inform the public of this evil, we need to know as many of the names of planning groups associated with Sustainable Development as we can find. We know of some:

• Renaissance
• Piedmont Environmental
• American Planning Association
• ICLEI
• PlaceMatters
• Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness
• Center for Neighborhood Technology
• RERC Strategic Advisors
• Wallace Roberts & Todd
• Gresham Smith & Partners

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