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range of international partners
that collaborate on our programs and campaigns, including national
governments, academic institutions, local project-specific partners such as foundations and non-governmental organizations, and
dozens of national, regional and international associations of local
governments.”
    ICLEI is another U.N. organization headquartered outside of the
United States in Bonn, Germany. With offices in 12 major cities dotted
strategically around the globe, ICLEI directs their work through
regional offices in Oakland, California; Capetown, South Africa;
Toronto, Canada and Tokyo. The European Secretariat is located in
Freiburg, Germany and the Latin American and Caribbean Secretariat
is in Sao Paulo Brazil. There are other offices in Mexico, Melbourne,
Australia; New Delhi, India; and Manila, The Philippines.
    On January 1, 2013, Gino Van Begin took control of the international ICLEI operations. Since 2000, he served as the regional director
of operations at the ICLEI European Secretariat. Before that appointment, he served as the head of the EU’s Environmental Centers in
Russia, at Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. Born in Belgium, Van
Begin co-drafted a document known as “The Aalborg Commitments
on Urban Sustainability”, a regional planning program that currently
includes 600 cities and towns.
    Van Begin was preceded at ICLEI by the former World Secretariat,
Konrad Otto Zimmerman, who was installed as the first ICLEI
Chairman when the U.N. group was launched in 1992. A lifetime
environmentalist and like Van Begin an urban planner, he is a member
of the United Nation’s Program for Environmental Governance and
the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council.
    Every three years, ICLEI stages a large World Conference and
according to their website connects “experts and peers from around
the globe to share challenges and learn the most successful strategies
for local sustainability and forge common solutions”.
    Tactically, in America ICLEI implements their globalist environmental agenda through regional planning groups. Many of them
bypass locally elected officials. City and County planners subscribe to
ICLEI’s guidelines and when, for example, they apply for state and
federal funding for regionally-planned projects, ICLEI membership
virtually assures funding.
    ICLEI’s United States President and Board Chairman is a notso-well-known and remarkably unlikely U.S. mayor, by the name of
Patrick Hays, from the city of North Little Rock, Arkansas. He is
assisted by the ICLEI-U.S.A. Corporate Secretary, Pegeen Hanrahan,
former Mayor of Gainesville, Florida and ICLEI-U.S.A. Corporate
Treasurer, Frank Cownie, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa.
    Are all of these small town politicians and regional urban planners
a network of Global Environmental Conspirators bent on undermining U.S. sovereignty and creating a New World Order? Of course not.
But, like many government officials all over the world, they became
convinced during the 1990s that the goals of “Agenda 21” and the
United Nations could solve the international environmental crisis of
“Global Warming”.
    ICLEI is very active across America. While they might seem relatively benign at first glance with a global environmental agenda as
their goal, here are a few of the more enticing ICLEI news story headlines listed on their website.
• “EPA Releases Document on Energy Efficiency in Local
Government Operations”
• “CityofHoustonjoinsBetterBuildingsChallenge”
    • “Carpentaria,CASwitchestoLEDStreetLightingtoCutCosts”
• “Seattle’sGreenBuildingEvolution”
• “Earth Day Network announces cities that will participate in
Clinton Global Initiative”
• “Ithaca,NYgoes100%renewable”
• “Learn more about your state and local GHG emissions with
EPA’s new map tool!”
    Remember, most of the ICLEI goals and strategies are being implemented, not at the federal or state level, but by