First off, the following 8 steps are suggested by Paul Stamets as a viable solution to diffusing, containing, & securing the radioactive elements of the disaster: 1. Evacuate the region around the reactors. 2. Establish a high-level, diversified remediation team including foresters, mycologists, nuclear and radiation experts, government officials, and citizens. 3. Establish a fenced off Nuclear Forest Recovery Zone. 4. Chip the wood debris from the destroyed buildings and trees and spread throughout areas suffering from high levels of radioactive contamination. 5. Mulch the landscape with the chipped wood debris to a minimum depth of 12-24 inches. 6. Plant native deciduous and conifer trees, along with hyper-accumulating mycorrhizal mushrooms, particularly Gomphidius glutinosus, Craterellus tubaeformis, and Laccaria amethystina (all native to pines). G. glutinosus has been reported to absorb – via the mycelium – and concentrate radioactive Cesium 137 more than 10,000-fold over ambient background levels. Many other mycorrhizal mushroom species also hyper-accumulate. 7. Wait until mushrooms form and then harvest them under Radioactive HAZMAT protocols. 8. Continuously remove the mushrooms, which have now concentrated the radioactivity, particularly Cesium 137, to an incinerator. Burning the mushroom will result in radioactive ash. This ash can be further refined and the resulting concentrates vitrified (placed into glass) or stored using other state-of-the-art storage technologies. By sampling other mushroom-forming fungi for their selective ability to hyper-accumulate radioactivity, we can learn a great deal while helping the ecosystem recover. Not only will some mushroom species hyper-accumulate radioactive compounds, but research has also shown that some mycorrhizal fungi bind and sequester radioactive elements so they remain immobilized for extended periods of time. Surprisingly, we learned from the Chernobyl disaster that many species of melanin-producing fungi have their growth stimulated by radiation. The knowledge gained through this collaborative process would not only benefit the areas affected by the current crisis, but would also help with preparedness and future remediation responses. SOURCE: http://punkrockpermaculture.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/paul-stamets-on-radiation-contamination-around-fukushima/

We are washing away because of the dredging on both ends of our island and the government tells us we have to let nature take its course. They are destroying the habitats of countless animals as well as destroying an entire communities livelihood. We can stabilize the coastline with natural reefs providing marine life with a place to flourish as well as building a beach for the land animals to live and grow. All of this will protect the humans that have lived here for thousands of years as well!

I feel we really need to look at other options for weed control. I've heard that Australia simply uses a machine that sprays very hot steam! We could improve our economy by taking the millions we spend on herbicide and paying the road workers to weed wack instead. This way we will protect our health, the health of the Aina and at the same time stop the support of Monsanto. The Round Up doesn't stop nature. When I drive our highways I still see all the grass and all the trees. The damage doesn't disappear or look cut, manicured or cared for. It just looks brown and sick. I Can't help but wonder what kind of impressions this makes on our valued tourists as they drive our poisoned pathways? What do you think this continuous exposure will do to our health and the delicate ecosystem of the land and ocean? I read an article in my state medical insurance magazine that said they expected a rise in a certain kind of cancer that they know is caused by herbicides. I also read that when our ground water was tested it was contaminated with glyphosate (an ingredient in Round Up). I think we need to search for natural alternatives to Round Up before we suffer anymore of the consequences. Mahalo, Kelly Brownell

Please....help us to stop a vote for $300,00,000 for a Fracking refinery by the City of Phoenix and mayor for North Dakota ! Time is of the essence, please...let them know in a friendly manner that to vote for this huge sum of money is not only financially risky but...immoral because it is a crime against to humanity to poison the water of another state so that children and adults will become sick from it ! Thank you, Leonard Clark :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebhcGdr_BtE

As a citizen of Calvert County who lives about 6 miles south of this plant, I'm concerned that this area will become the target of terrorists. This LNG plant is just 3 miles south of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, and if a disaster occurs at the LNG plant, it could cause a serious problem at the CCNPP.

I believe that the health epidemics that our country is facing are related to and influenced by the contents and nutritional value of our foods. It is the right of the consumer to know the contents of the foods he/she consumes and the responsibility of the companies that manufacture those foods to communicate those contents through transparent labeling of the products they sell.

Energy production in the USA is critical to support our commerce and economic systems. It has become a matter of national security as well. It is imperative that we catch up to the advancement in green electrical production by other countries - like Germany among others - which are successfully generating a large percentage of their electricity this way. Not only is this a necessary economic solution but it is also a much needed advancement in the reduction of pollutants that aggravate Global Warming. It is also necessary in order to reduce the danger that nuclear power plants pose to the survival of the species.

We are angry at the hubris of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and the misery they have wrought on the communities that live along the NJ Garden State Parkway. This huge construction project they are conducting coined as a "Safety Project" has destroyed hundreds of trees exposing communities to the nonstop heavy traffic that travels the Parkway. This has exposed the adjacent communities to excessive levels of noise and fumes that endangers their health, destroys their sleep, the value of their homes, and their very quality of life.

I have started this petition because I am a scientist and a mother who cares about my family and other families. The objective science clearly demonstrates the significant harm GMOs and the associated 200 fold increase in herbicide/pesticide use has caused. Everyone has been touched by cancers... Celiac.... Type 2 diabetes... All things that our get grandparents never knew at these rates. Cancer is now the number one killer of our precious children. It is no coincidence that the health crisis associated with the increase of these life stealing diseases, coincides perfectly with the introduction and proliferation of GMOs in our food supply.

The federal government continues to throw money at oil companies that are making record profits. We need to bring down the debt and reign down on irresponsible oil companies that fail to invest in the future of energy.

Our beautiful county is being targeted by the oil and gas industry for one of their hit and run incidents. Drill'em and Build'em! Loud, noisy drilling rigs can be placed in our fragile riparian areas. Drilling can threaten our drinking water. We are threatened with noisy 24/7 compression plants, pipelines through pastures and wetlands favored by hunters, wild lands, and river ways. We need clean healthy air to breath and clean, safe water to drink. We need to insure there will be no fracking to poison our water sources. Time to act is very short. Strong ordinances need to be in place before drilling begins.

Seneca's Biomass Plant (repeatedly fined for violations) is now requesting a permit for major pollution level increases, purchasing unused 'pollution credits' from other plants, which will push it from a "minor" to "Major" source of pollutants under the Federal Clean Air Act. It's pollution controls for nitrogen oxides were "switched off" for seven months, and it seeks to increase hazardous emissions of hydrogen chloride, formaldehyde, acrolein, styrene, and carbon monoxide,' pumping 24/7 - (the latter alone 25,000 tons/week.) EPA says"'particulates' can aggravate asthma, bronchitis, lung disease, heart disease, and lead to premature death of health-sensitive people, including the very young and very old." The health of our children and elders should be top priority, and this permit and purchase of "pollution credits" should be stopped. How can the potential for "premature death" of our most vulnerable youth and elderly be either permissable or negotiable? We have only until November 22nd to respond.