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!

More than 100 million Americans live in vulnerability zones that surround dangerous chemical facilities, putting them at risk of explosions, fires, and release of toxic chemicals caused by these facilities. In Colorado, 51,117 children are at risk of these disasters because they attend school close to an unsafe plant – this is unacceptable. We can make our communities safer by ensuring that these facilities switch to safer chemicals and technologies that are both available and affordable.

The Pulitzer-winning InsideClimate News is running a blockbuster series with incontrovertible evidence—pulled from Exxon's own archives—that the oil giant's top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse pollution, then led efforts to block solutions. Documents show that Exxon's own scientists were aware of and studying the dangerous impacts of greenhouse gases in the 1970s and 1980s—until Exxon's leadership decided to shut down the research and promote climate denial instead, in order to protect the company's unfathomably large profits. We've known for years that the oil industry finances the climate-denial network of politicians, think tanks, and right-wing media in order to protect their gargantuan profits, but now we have sufficient evidence of deliberate deceit to make a federal investigation happen. The United States Department of Justice has the power to prosecute Exxon's deliberate deception under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act—just as DOJ sued the tobacco industry for knowingly lying about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Even before these smoking-gun documents were released, climate hawks have been making calls for a RICO investigation of fossil-fueled climate denial. Three weeks ago, a group of top climate scientists called for an investigation (PDF), saying, "it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even more lasting damage is done." Months earlier, climate hawk Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a former state Attorney General, called for a RICO investigation of Big Oil, saying, "I don’t know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the tobacco industry. We don't have enough information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it's all smoke and no fire. But there’s an awful lot of smoke." Thanks to the reporters at Inside Climate News, now we have smoking-gun documents found in public archives. And there's certain to be more. It's up to us to demand the U.S. government immediately launch an investigation that will lead to prosecution of Exxon's deliberate and deadly climate denial.

More than 100 million Americans live in vulnerability zones that surround dangerous chemical facilities, putting them at risk of explosions, fires, and release of toxic chemicals caused by these facilities. In New Mexico, 106,302 children are at risk of these disasters because they attend school close to an unsafe plant – this is unacceptable. We can make our communities safer by ensuring that these facilities switch to safer chemicals and technologies that are both available and affordable.