Our Sacred sites, areas, district, and aquifer supplies clean fresh water in the middle of the Ocean is in imminent danger at this very moment. Temple top removal is happening as we speak, the peoples of Hawaii are not protesting they are protecting. Please, Kokua (Help) with the cessation of all desecration on Mauna Kea. MAHALO KALOKO I MAIKA`I, (THANK YOU FROM THE POND WITHIN)

The people of the United States cannot allow their public lands to be destroyed by private individuals or businesses in violation of the rules and policies that protect and preserve such lands for ALL of the people. Cliven Bundy's private cattle ranching operation has been trespassing on BLM managed public lands for over twenty years, causing significant damage to sensitive lands and species. If the government officials managing these lands allow Bundy to continue breaking the law and refusing to follow numerous court orders they have lost all legitimacy and need to resign. Continued destruction of public lands through the use of lawless Militias is unacceptable.

Not only is our water supply diminishing, but the higher levels of toxins in our water due to fracking is on the rise. Let's keep that water for our farmers to produce our food, out of reach from the corporate greed which is killing our land.

California is second only to Florida in the number of golf courses it has: 921. Together, those courses use as much water as 2.8 million people, or about 7 percent of the state's population.

The State of Hawai'i's Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) is planning to issue the University of Hawai'i (UH) new leases for another 65 years, that's right, BLNR is planning to give Mauna Kea to UH for another 65 years. The new leases would end in the year 2078 - how old will you be in 2078? The current BLNR lease is scheduled to end in the year 2033, but this date is not good enough for UH and the other national and international observatories because they want the power to continue to build newer and bigger telescopes. Mauna Kea Conservation District Lands are watershed, historic, environmentally and culturally sensitive lands and therefore have special protective status under Hawai‘i law. In fact, any activity that will have adverse impacts on the natural, historic and cultural resources of Mauna Kea are NOT permitted by law and BLNR is tasked with enforcing these laws. The University has already admitted that 45 years of astronomy development has resulted in "adverse, significant, and substantial impacts" to the natural and cultural resources of Mauna Kea. The BLNR needs to stop the University from further telescope develop on Mauna Kea!  In 1998, the State Auditor, found that BLNR and UH’s oversight and protections of the natural and cultural resources of Mauna Kea is inadequate to ensure the protection of natural resources. The University focused primarily on the development of Mauna Kea and tied the benefits gained to its research program. The University neglected historic preservation laws and the cultural value of Mauna Kea was largely unrecognized.  BLNR is the land manager for all conservation district lands and they are required to collect "fair market" lease rents for the use of the Mauna Kea’s public lands. Currently, national and international observatories are only required to pay $1.00 per year to lease Mauna Kea’s public and ceded lands. This is unreasonable and it violates the law.  Lastly, BLNR is not fulfilling its constitutionally mandated duty to protect all rights customarily and traditionally exercised for subsistence, cultural and religious purposes. Let your voice be heard –enough is enough!  We,  the undersigned, demand that BLNR take the following actions:  (1) We demand that the BLNR hold public hearings on the Issuance of New Direct Leases to UH for Mauna Kea Conservation District, including Amendments to Easements. Mauna Kea is a vast public resource and therefore is of great public importance. This is this controversial land management decision that the public should be allowed to comment and be heard.  (2) We demand that the BLNR deny the University of Hawaii’s lease renewals for Mauna Kea Conservation District lands.  (3) We demand that the BLNR restrict further development, including but not limited to the Thirty Meter Telescope, within the Mauna Kea Conservation District.  (4) We demand that the BLNR charge the existing observatories fair market lease rent and also that BLNR assess back rent for the use of the Mauna Kea Conservation District lands and that these funds be deposited into the Public Trust Land Fund for public purposes and for the betterment of the conditions of Native Hawaiians as the law under HRS 171 requires.  (5) We demand that all revenues and monies involved with any telescope, scientific operation and/or research derived from the use of the Mauna Kea Conservation District lands be made transparent and that the rightful share of such revenues be given to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Please take action and sign, Mahalo for your support.

Gov. Brown exempted Big Farms from the mandatory 25% reduction in water use during the drought. Big Farms use 80% of all of California's water. A real attempt to deal with a serious drought requires real focus on all the water users, not just 20% of water users.

Volunteers of the non-profit organization Chelonia have been working with Puerto Rico Natural Resources Department to clean, patrol, document and preserve the nesting area and the newborn turtles on this beach. We are facing several problems such as hazardous waste disposal, horses, four tracks and vehicles passing over the turtle nests and compacting the sand which causes a collapse to the nests. PR Natural Resources Department has supported us, and as a result of this joint initiative the registered nests have risen from more than 320 in 2012 to almost 600 in 2014 season; so we know that if a Natural Reserve is declared by Federal Law, this could enforce the respect and protection of this natural wonder.

I'm starting this because I care about my health and the health of the nation and world.

HF 1455, recently introduced by Rep. David Bly (D) and Rep. Rod Hamilton (R), and SF 1657, introduced by Sen. Kevin Dahle (D), propose a state Rural Distributed Generation Tax Credit. The bills would provide farms and rural small businesses with a 30% tax credit on the capital and installation costs for small-scale wind turbines (up to 40 kW), solar thermal arrays, or geothermal heat exchangers. Family farms and rural businesses are best poised to implement distributed generation renewable energy systems. These entities readily meet the spatial requirement, property line setbacks, permitted use, and accessory use definitions established in zoning codes and are also located away from natural gas lines. Livestock operations are among the large energy consumers in rural Minnesota as well. Electricity consumers in rural areas pay higher electricity rates and service charges than investor-owned ratepayers due to economics involved in servicing fewer customers per mile of electrical line. The Rural Distributed Generation Tax Credit would reduce the cost of the investment to accelerate the payback and enable diversification of farm and rural small business income. Community Wind Gardens would allow individual Xcel Energy utility customers to buy into a local wind project and receive a credit on their utility bill according to how much energy their share of the project produces each month. This would enable all customers, including those who can’t install their own wind turbine (i.e. renters and people in low wind areas), to invest in local wind projects and reduce their utility bills. Please contact Minnesota legislators and ask them to support the Rural Distributed Generation Tax Credit and Wind Gardens!

The PA Game Commission intends to vote on the trapping of otters in the near future. Please help this wonderful animal .

I have been studying monarch butterflies for over forty years. In just the past 20 years we have lost 90% of them. We are losing our bees at an unsustainable rate of 30% a year. We all have to take action. N.Y.S. is on the monarch migration path and we are contributing to their demise. It is time to stop 30 years of pesticide spraying along all our roads.

I am a mom of two children from Silver Spring, Maryland. Personally, I have suffered from the horrific health effects from FRACKING chemicals. FRACKING contaminates our public drinking water and releases toxic gases into the air. There is no safe method for FRACKING. The hazardous chemicals used in the fracking process are abnormally dangerous and ultra-hazardous. Please help me to STOP FRACKING in Maryland.