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Wren Winslow Wirth

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Wren Winslow Wirth is the wife of former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) and a Democratic political activist that advocated for left-of-center environmental policies like population control, the elimination of fossil fuels,1 and the Green New Deal. She has worked for or sat on the boards of many environmentalist activist groups like the Winslow Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund, 2 and Worldwatch Institute. 3 Wirth and her husband were close friends with former presidential candidate John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz. 4

Winslow Foundation

Wren Winslow Wirth is the president of the environmental organization, the Winslow Foundation. It supports left-of-center environmental policies on global population, conservation, so-called global warming, and the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy. 5

Wirth has directed funding through the Winslow Foundation to environmentalist activist groups like the World Resources Institute6 and the Sunrise Movement. 7 The Sunrise Movement is an environmentalist activist group that supports the Green New Deal. 8

The Winslow Foundation donated $250,000 to an environmentalist non-profit associated with Wirth’s daughter Kelsey Wirth, Mothers Out Front. 9

Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future

Wren Winslow Wirth was a leader with the left-of-center Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future (CCF). 10 The CCF lobbied for legislation to create a council to plan national demographic and population change and for a “Cost-Conscious Congress” initiative that “required the executive branch to “conform” to the recommendations of the Global 2000 Report.” The report analyzed the environmental impact of global population growth. 11

Associations

Worldwatch Institute

Wirth worked at the environmentally focused Worldwatch Institute as president12 and a director. 13 Worldwatch is an anti-population growth organization whose leadership recommended that women not have children and endorsed China’s one-child per family rule, claiming it prevented 300 million additional Chinese children. It considered pro-abortion policies as a policy to counter climate change. 14

Environmental Defense Fund

She sat on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund with her close friend, Teresa Heinz, wife of former Democratic U.S. Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry (D-MA). 15 EDF was a left-leaning environmental activist organization with ties to the Obama Administration. 16 It opposed former President Donald Trump’s policies including the Keystone Pipeline. 17

United Nations Foundation

Wirth joined her husband in representing the United Nations Foundation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 18 Ted Turner launched the UN Foundation with a $1 billion donation intended to support the United Nations’ initiatives. 19

World Resources Institute

She was a member of the World Resources Institute,20 a left-of-center environmental group linked to the Obama Administration and Chinese interests. E-mail records between WRI and the Obama Administration suggested collaboration on the Paris Agreement. 21

Family

Wren Wirth has two children, Kelsey and Chris Wirth. Chris founded a puzzle company in Boulder, Colorado. 22 Kelsey worked with the Environmental Working Group, the Center for Environmental Citizenship, and the World Resources Institute. 23 She founded the environmentalist group Mothers Out Front, which is an organization for mothers that are concerned about climate change. 24

Wren Winslow’s husband Tim Wirth had a political career that began under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson and continued with the Nixon administration. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative representing Colorado and later a U.S. Senator. Tim Wirth centered his time in office predominately on left-of-center environmental policies like population stabilization and climate. After leaving the senate, Wirth became the national co-chair for then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, which led to his joining the administration as the first undersecretary for global affairs. 25

He then became the president of Ted Turner’s UN Foundation, and then vice chairman for the UN Foundation and its related entity, the Better World Fund. Both organizations served to support the United Nations and drive population stabilization. The United Nations Environment Programme gave him the Champion of the Earth award. 26

References

  1. Critical Path-Natural Gas Summit Bios. Washington, DC, 2011. http://banmichiganfracking.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Critical-Path-nat-gas-summit-bios.pdf
  2. United Nations. Framework Convention on Climate Change . New York, NY: United Nations, 2010. https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2010/cop16/eng/inf01p03.pdf
  3. Livingstone, David. “Green Like Astroturf: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Agent of the Globalist Conspiracy.” Ordo ab Chao. Ordo ab Chao, March 2, 2021. https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/green-like-astroturf
  4. Deloitte. I f W e C a n P u t a M a n o n t h e M o o n. Chicago, IL: Deloitte, 2010. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/if-we-can-put-a-man-on-the-moon-getting-things-done-in-government/US_deloittereview_Man_On_Moon_Jan10.pdf
  5. Critical Path-Natural Gas Summit Bios. Washington, DC, 2011. http://banmichiganfracking.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Critical-Path-nat-gas-summit-bios.pdf
  6. WRI . WRI Board of Directors Meeting. WASHINGTON, DC: WRI , 2005. http://pdf.wri.org/121305_boardmin_v2slb.pdf
  7. Livingstone, David. “Green Like Astroturf: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Agent of the Globalist Conspiracy.” Ordo ab Chao. Ordo ab Chao, March 2, 2021. https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/green-like-astroturf
  8. Williamson, Kevin D. “Biden the Centrist?” National Review. National Review, May 21, 2020. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-the-centrist/
  9. Winslow Foundation, Return of a Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2018, Part XV Line 3
  10. Critical Path-Natural Gas Summit Bios. Washington, DC, 2011. http://banmichiganfracking.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Critical-Path-nat-gas-summit-bios.pdf
  11. “Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future.” Wilson Center, October 1, 2002. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/congressional-clearinghouse-the-future
  12. “Wren Wirth, President, Worldwatch Institute.” spoke.com, 2008. https://www.spoke.com/people/wren-wirth-3e1429c09e597c1007ff3226
  13. Livingstone, David. “Green Like Astroturf: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Agent of the Globalist Conspiracy.” Ordo ab Chao. Ordo ab Chao, March 2, 2021. https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/green-like-astroturf
  14. Mooney, Kevin. “‘Sustainability.’” Capital Research Center. Capital Research Center, April 2, 2012. https://capitalresearch.org/article/sustainability-the-slippery-watchword-of-the-worldwatch-institute/
  15. Deloitte. I f W e C a n P u t a M a n o n t h e M o o n. Chicago, IL: Deloitte, 2010. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/if-we-can-put-a-man-on-the-moon-getting-things-done-in-government/US_deloittereview_Man_On_Moon_Jan10.pdf
  16. Gaby, Keith. “Ready to Defend Obama’s Environmental Legacy? Top 10 Accomplishments to Focus On.” Environmental Defense Fund, January 12, 2017. https://www.edf.org/blog/2017/01/12/ready-defend-obamas-environmental-legacy-top-10-accomplishments-focus
  17. Pooley, Eric. “Trump Decision to Approve the Keystone Pipeline ‘Wrong on the Merits.’” Environmental Defense Fund, March 24, 2017. https://www.edf.org/media/trump-decision-approve-keystone-pipeline-wrong-merits
  18. United Nations. Framework Convention on Climate Change . New York, NY: United Nations, 2010. https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2010/cop16/eng/inf01p03.pdf
  19. “Ted Turner Donates $1 Billion to ‘U.N. Causes’.” CNN . Cable News Network, September 19, 1997. http://edition.cnn.com/US/9709/18/turner.gift/
  20. Livingstone, David. “Green Like Astroturf: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Agent of the Globalist Conspiracy.” Ordo ab Chao. Ordo ab Chao, March 2, 2021. https://ordoabchao.ca/articles/green-like-astroturf
  21. Mooney, Kevin. “China’s Green Offensive: The Obama State Department.” Capital Research Center. Capital Research Center, October 30, 2020. https://capitalresearch.org/article/chinas-green-offensive-part-2/
  22. Hannon, Aedan, Shane Monaghan, Lily Capstick, and Jenny McCoy. “Liberty Puzzles Aren’t Your Average Games. They’re a Social Experience.” 5280, February 26, 2021. https://www.5280.com/2021/02/chris-wirth-isnt-your-average-puzzle-maker/
  23. “Kelsey Wirth – Activist FactsActivist Facts.” Activist Facts, 2020. https://www.activistfacts.com/person/2828-kelsey-wirth/
  24. “Kelsey Wirth.” HuffPost, 2017. https://www.huffpost.com/author/kelsey-wirth
  25. “Tim Wirth.” Center of the American West Tim Wirth Comments, 2021. https://www.centerwest.org/archives/14288
  26. “Tim Wirth.” Center of the American West Tim Wirth Comments, 2021. https://www.centerwest.org/archives/14288
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