Gov Synder sent in Emergency manager,who in turn switched the water from Detroit to the Flint river. This water has high, DANGEROUS levels of lead, which can lead to brain damage and/or death! Demand clean water for Flint and recall Gov. Snyder!

I am from Oregon and grew up with cans and bottle machines at every major grocery store. You drink the contents of the can or bottle, then you set it aside with other empties, then you take it to the store to recycle it and collect your deposit money. A deposit is a HUGE incentive to recycle, and it saves SO many empties from ending up where they never should - the landfill. I was shocked when I traveled to Missouri, Arizona, and especially Oklahoma, where cans are in piles on the side of the road in rural areas (and everywhere.) This is unacceptable. Deposits must be law-mandated across the country. There's no excuse. Although stores tend to charge extra on deposit items, making the point of collecting your deposit money seemingly pointless, having a deposit STILL shows an increase in recycling for states that have deposits. And getting those empties recycled is the whole point. Plus, it's common for people to collect others' cans that have been tossed aside, meaning they earn deposit money when they have not bought the original product. THAT is an incentive. THAT makes an enormous difference.

Verizon Wireless has plans to erect a huge mobile telecommunications facility on the roof of 12345 Ventura Court, a 51-foot tall building. The proposed project includes 12 cellular antennas, 50-foot, 9-inches in height on top of the building! This structure is adjacent to the LA River. This structure would be a terrible eyesore for everyone living on either side of the LA River in Studio City and is clearly in violation of several local Zoning and Community ordinances. This type of development is out of character for our neighborhood. It is crucial to demonstrate OPPOSITION to this project, if we are to have a chance of stopping it. Please sign and share this petition with your neighbors. Time is of the essence. There will be a public hearing on Monday, October 5 at 3:00pm. It's at Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Services Center 6262 Van Nuys Bl., Room 1B Please attend and ask to be heard. REFERENCE: Case No. ZA 2014-1797(CUW)(SPP) CEQA NO. ENV 2014-1798-MND

Como empresarios de San Marcos, queremos incrementar el atractivo eco turistico de nuestra comunidad,limpiando el pueblo. Cuando las personas visitan nuestro pueblo, a menudo se dan cuenta de la abundancia de basura plástica en el suelo y la falta de recursos y servicios amientalmente amigables en nuestra comunidad y sus establecimientos. Creemos que al corregir estos problemas atraeremos más eco turismo, para así crear más empleos y recursos financieros localmente. Al firmar esta petición, nos comprometemos a seguir los principios empresariales de la Alianza Internacional de Basura Cero (ver http://zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/) para reducir la cantidad de basura que producimos. A través de esta peticion, también estamos pidiendole a la Municipalidad que establezca una meta Basura Cero para que de esta manera también se cree la infraestructura que necesitamos como comunidad para tener un mejor manejo de residuos, reciclaje y sistemas de re utilización para el beneficio de los negocios, las familias y sus hogares, y los turistas de San Marcos por igual. Definido por Alianza Internacional, Basura Cero es: “Basura Cero es una meta ética, económica, eficiente y visionaria, de guiar a las personas a cambiar sus vidas y hábitos al emular ciclos naturales sostenibles, donde todos aquellos materiales que descartamos puedan designarse y convertirse en recursos para otros. Basura Cero es un concepto y una política integral de manejo de residuos que apunta a reducir progresivamente el enterramiento y la incineración de residuos sólidos urbanos, hasta llegar a cero, adoptando una serie de medidas en cada etapa del circuito de los materiales: desde que se producen hasta que se consumen y desechan. Un plan de Basura Cero busca aplicar medidas en todo el circuito de los materiales, apuntando por un lado a reducir drásticamente la cantidad y toxicidad de los residuos que generamos y por otro a que todo lo que se deseche vuelva al circuito productivo o a la naturaleza de forma segura. Al implentar el Plan Basura Cero eliminaremos todas las descargas de desechos a la tierra, el agua y el aire, que son una amenza para la salud del planeta, los animals y los seres humanos. Una meta de reducción de basura municipal nos va a proeever de la infraestructura y el soporte que necesitamos para ganar reconocimiento internacional como Comunidad Basura Cero. Un reconocimiento de tal nivel nos va a permitir dar el ejemplo a otras comunidades alrededor del Lago, así como a todo el país. As San Marcos business owners, we want to increase our community's appeal to ecotourists by cleaning up our town. When visitors come to our community, they often notice the abundance of plastic trash on the ground and lack of earth-friendly items and services in our community and establishments. By correcting these problems, we believe we will attract more ecotourists, allowing us to create more jobs and economics for locals. By signing this petition, we are committing to follow Zero Waste International Alliance's business principles (see: http://zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/) to reduce the amount of trash we produce. Through this petition, we are also asking the municipality to set a Zero Waste goal, as well, so that the city will create the infrastructure we need as a community to have better waste disposal, recycling, and reuse systems for the benefit of San Marcos businesses, households, and travelers alike. Zero Waste, as defined by the Zero Waste international Alliance, means: “Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them. Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that are a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health.” A municipal waste reduction goal will give us the infrastructure and support we need to gain international recognition as a Zero Waste community. Such recognition will allow us to set an example for the rest of the lake communities and the country-at-large.

If a chemical is known to cause cancer, we should be alerted about it so we know the dangers of using any product that is made with that chemical. That's why California is moving to declare the chemical glyphosate - commonly sold as Monsanto's Roundup - as a carcinogen. Glyphosate has been called a "probable human carcinogen" by the World Health Organization's Agency for Research on Cancer. In light of this finding, and since hundreds of millions of pounds of this herbicide is used every year on crops across the country, it should absolutely be classified as cancer-causing and Monsanto should be required to label it as such.

Documents released from the Pennsylvania Department of Health show that the agency has had a clear pattern of responding inadequately to fracking-related health complaints made by state residents. A recent study found that hospital admissions rates were significantly higher in counties with more fracking wells than in counties with no fracking wells.  Tell Governor Wolf he can no longer ignore the public health problems created by fracking in Pennsylvania. He must act immediately to halt fracking in Pennsylvania and put forward a plan to help individuals already adversely impacted by fracking.

The Dakota Access pipeline ends up in my watershed and my family depends on drinking water from the Mississippi River.

Not just residents of Nevada, but thousands upon thousands of ill people across the Nation and other countries are reporting dangerous levels of heavy metals in their blood such as aluminum, barium & strontium. These metals are directly linked to these unmarked white jets and what they are spraying. How do we know? Air, dirt and rainwater samples have been taken and analyzed by independent scientists and the tests show dangerous levels of these metals and agents (known and unknown). The results of breathing in these aerosol metals to the human body according to numerous doctors & scientists, range from ‘Chemtrail Sickness’; which consists of flu like symptoms, sore throat, respiratory illnesses, brain fog, extreme exhaustion to dementia/Alzheimer's, DNA damage and more. Whether this fall out is a deliberate biological attack, or a byproduct of the U.S. Air Force attempting to control the weather by cloud seeding as they have stated by 2025, or any other malevolent reasons, we have to stop it now, for the well-being of all things that breathe the air!

I believe that doing a good deed is not enough to get people to recycle! Many people are confused as to what they can recycle and how to do it! We need to educate our community and start recycling to save our city! Recycling costs less to taxpayers than trash service. We should take that extra money saved and give back to those in the community that recycle!

Genetically engineered wheat that was never approved for human consumption was found in an Oregon field in 2013 and in a Montana field in 2014. These contamination incidents costs farmers millions of dollars and the unapproved GMO wheat likely ended up in the food system. Now the USDA wants comments on how they control field trials. If the USDA and patenting biotech companies cannot rein in GMO technology, then they must put a stop to open field trials before more incidents like these occur.

One of our best hopes in the fight against climate change is the massive explosion of rooftop solar, which has more than tripled since 2010! But multi-billionaire Warren Buffett has launched a full scale attack on the rooftop solar market in Nevada. Buffett, through NV Energy — a utility that his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate owns — is urging the Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to gut the state’s popular net metering program, which pays solar panel owners for the energy they send back to the grid. NV Energy claims that net metering raises costs for other Nevadans, even though a study commissioned by the PUC says exactly the opposite.* But Buffett’s real reason is much more self-centered: rooftop solar cuts into the profits of his utility. If the changes Buffett seeks go through, they would destroy the solar market in Nevada, costing as many as 6,000 jobs and slowing the fight against climate change. *PUC study on absence of cost shifting: http://1.usa.gov/1kZc0d2

As someone who looks forward to attending Art Walk each month and has a deep appreciation for all that Wynwood has to offer in general, I have made it a mission to help see that the city provides more Recycling options. Especially when Art Walk occurs and Food Trucks are abundant, there is a great need for more recycle bins where we can deposit our plastic bottles, glass containers, and more. The last few Art Walks I've attended, the trash cans have been overflowing with all types of garbage falling into the streets. Much of which should be recycled as to preserve our resources rather than further destruct them. Please take a moment to sign this petition so we can show the city that we desire and care for a cleaner and Eco- friendlier environment! Thanks in advance!