The City of Normal's defintiton of Sustainable Development directly states its connection to the Bruntland Commission.
From Normal's 2035 Report:
For the purposes of this project, we have used the widely accepted United Nations Bruntland Commission’s definition (1983):
Sustainability: (n) Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
According to wikipedia the Bruntland Report is also known as "Our Common Future."
From Wikipedia :
The publication of Our Common Future and the work of the World Commission on Environment and Development laid the groundwork for the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit and the adoption of AGENDA 21, the Rio Declaration and to the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
This commission was chaired by Gro Harlem Bruntland, Prime minister of Norway and Vice-President of the World Socialist Party. According to the website World Socialist Party US their Objective is:
The establishment of a system of society based on the COMMON OWNERSHIP and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of society as a whole.
Is the city of Normal basing their ideas of Public-Private Partnerships, Social Justice and Economic Justice on the Objective of the World Socialist Party?
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