A controversial rezoning issue threatens to deprive our neighborhoods of a sorely needed open space park in the most recreationally under-served region of Gwinnett County, Georgia. The 130 acres of undeveloped land, locally known as "The Range", is owned by Cisco Systems and is currently under a sales contract between Cisco and a developer. Making use of a contingency clause in the contract, Rocklyn Homes is trying to rezone The Range to permit construction of 399 homes, which promises to adversely impact the quality of life for all neighbors. If they succeed in rezoning, we can forget any and all chances of preserving the land for an open space park in one of Gwinnett's most populous census tracts. Please help us persuade our county commissioners to flat out deny Rocklyn Homes' application for rezoning. Not "approve"...and not "approve with conditions"...but to flat out "DENY"!

No sulfide mine has ever been successfully operated and closed without polluting nearby waters with sulfuric acid and toxic metals. But sulfide mines are being proposed for the first time in Minnesota, near the Boundary Waters and Lake Superior where they put our water and economy at risk. The cost for taxpayers to clean up sulfide mines in other states is estimated at $20 billion. Governor Dayton can protect our state's waters by demanding proof that mining companies can answer "yes" to these 4 simple questions. You can learn more about sulfide mining at www.miningtruth.org

In the past few years, the drilling industry has created tens of billions of gallons of fracking waste, which is often laced with cancer-causing and even radioactive material. Shockingly, fracking and drilling pollution is exempt from our cornerstone national hazardous waste laws. The result is simple and jaw-dropping: Fracking waste can be sprayed on our roads as a deicer, stored in open waste pits that overflow into our waterways -- and some Western communities are using it as water for livestock. We can fix this, thanks to Pennsylvania’s very own Rep. Matthew Cartwright’s CLEANER Act, which will finally regulate dangerous fracking and drilling waste. This toxic waste has already made its way into our streams, rivers and drinking water sources, putting our health and environment at risk. Consider: * Fracking waste discharged at a sewage treatment plant in Pittsburgh led to a drinking water advisory for nearby communities. * 44,000 barrels of drilling wastewater was discharged into Bucks County’s Neshaminy Creek through a local sewage plant. * And, just a few months ago, a wastewater hauler illegally dumped 250,000 gallons of fracking wastewater into the Mahoning River in Ohio. The CLEANER Act would help curb the toxic waste threat our communities face every day, such as these, by requiring the tracking of every gallon of fracking waste from the day it’s created at the drilling site and help ensure safer disposal.

Since the late 70's Miami Mayors and Commissioners have barely given lip service to parks and green space. While 50,000 persons have been added to our population since 2000, no significant park land has been added. Residents know parks are necessary. Developers love to show any public space as green space on their brochures. This petition is to get the Miami Mayor and Commission to actually use one time impact fees on new construction to build new parks and to stop leasing away our scarce parks and water front with nothing tangible in return. Do not expect to see more parks overnight. We must drag Miami leaders into the 21st Century. Stay informed by joining the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MoreParksForMiamiNow/ Please ask your youth and adult friends to sign this petition to be delivered to the Mayor and Commissioners. Below are more detailed facts about this petition: Miami has the least amount of park space per resident of any high density city in the entire United States and 4 of 5 Commission Districts have little or no park space. Over the years, taxpayers from all Commission districts have paid taxes to create the parks which are mainly in District Two. During the building boom of 2000-2008 our park situation became much worse because under Mayor Diaz only two acres of parks were added when 155 acres should have been added to serve the over 50,000 new residents added by developers. Under Florida law, municipalities can hold developers responsible for paying one time Impact Fees to pay for additional classroom space, police and fire department needs and new park land, but the fees collected for parks were not enough and to make the matter worse the Miami Commission used the park fee money for improvement projects, but not to buy the needed park land. Also during the recent building boom, many developers escaped paying the new higher Impact Fees because the Commission failed to enact the new fees in time to apply to the new, mostly luxury high rise condos. A review of the Impact Fees by the Commission was due in 2008, but that review did not take place until 2013 and there were no significant changes. The City still charged Park Impact Fees on a modest single family home at a rate three times that of a luxury condo and affordable housing apartments pay no fees, while those developer are guaranteed a 15% return on their investment. A massive development, south of the Miami River, which the Commission has approved has been granted a building permit which will add over two thousand new residents, plus hotel rooms, office space and commercial space. This development by the Swire Company is paying the same old low fees. In progressive cities, impact fees for parks are collected not just on residential units, but also on hotel, commercial and office space because visitors, shoppers and office workers respectively also create a need for more park space. If Miami Impact Fees for parks had been revised in time and if they had been made commensurate with the actual cost of Miami land, then the funds collected on the Swire project alone could have created up to eight neighborhood size parks instead of perhaps one new park. Beyond Impact Fees, Miami 21, the new zoning code, allows 25% of any park to automatically be covered with buildings with no limit on the additional space allowed for parking. It is easy to see 50% of any park being covered with buildings and parking. Miami Parks need protections similar to County Parks. Miami 21 must be revised so no more than 25% of any park can be covered with a combination of buildings, parking and other hard surfaces. If more space in a park is needed for a public building, then there needs to be public process and the green park land to be covered over should be replaced in the neighborhood. This petition means Mayor Regalado and the Commission need to adjust our Level of Service for Parks from 1.3 acres per thousand residents to 3.1, where our actual park acreage was several years ago and that the Impact Fees for parks be raised to provide for the purchase and development of 3.1 acres per thousand new residents, paid for by developers who add population to our city, that these new Impact Fees be in place by March 2012 and that Miami 21 be revised to provide protections for Miami parks.

The time has come to insist on clean energy for the future of the South Jersey area; in particular, for the old B.L. England facility. We cannot support the building a 22-mile long pipeline through protected lands in order to continue to use fossil fuels for energy. "Fracking" is dangerous to our air and water.

The City of Miami Commission has approved a "Lease" that gives away our Publicly Owned Bayfront land in Coconut Grove to private developers for the construction of 100,000 SF of Retail / Commercial Shopping Center and a massive Quarter of a Million square foot Parking Garage. If you believe as I do that this grossly inappropriate taking and proposed use of our Scenic and Publicly Owned Bayfront Land for private purposes, is ill conceived and should not move forward Please Join Us in signing this petition.

Every where I go, there are folks worried about the rising cost of fuel, CO2 emissions, global warming, and depleting fossil fuel. My friends from Germany commented that there are far more installations of solar panels in their countries (with less sunshine) than here in Florida (the Sunshine State). The reason is: they have FIT (Feed-In-Tariff) for renewable energy and we, the Floridians, do not.

Unless we act now to enhance the Regional Climate Action Plan specifics to protect the Everglades from saltwater intrusion, increased pollutant problems and climate change rainfall stormwaters, we will be unable to assure the health of the Everglades or our southeastern counties' low-lying populations.

desde 1997 han prometido que se hará tal vía ínter-oceánica http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-590822 y hasta ahora no se ha visto. por lo que se solicita que por su intermedio se proponga en el senado de la república un proyecto de ley con su respectivo debate de interés publico para estudiar no tan solo la realización de tal canal ínter-oceánico,sino la asignación de los recursos pertinentes para lograr en el tiempo razonable posible la realización de tan importante obra de progreso para el Departamento de Urabá y para toda la nación. es de recordarles que la obra favorecería el comercio internacional,recordemos que en los estudios realizados se dice que seria el de mayor calaje de todos los canales inter-oceánicos y el que menos perjuicios ambientales generación por ser la unión de los ríos atrato ( para ir hacia el atlántico) y Rio Brazo Viejo ( para ir hacia el pacifico) uniendo a Brazo Viejo por medio de un Río Artificial que Vendría desde el Golfo de Cupica en (Océano del Pacifico) esto implicaria una mínima remocion de tierra y un canal ínter-oceánico de amplio calaje, porque tanto el Río Atrato,Como el Río Brazo Viejo son de los mas caudalosos del Urabá.

Around the world, bees are dying at alarming rates and new science is pointing to the world’s most popular class of pesticides called neonicotinoids (also called neonics), made by giant chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta, as the key factor in the global bee die-off crisis. These key pollinators need our help. Without immediate action to save bees, which pollinate two-thirds of our food crops, everything from almonds to strawberries could disappear from supermarket shelves. Europe has banned bee-killing pesticides but the EPA has delayed action until 2018. Fortunately, Representatives John Conyers (D, Mich.) and Earl Blumenauer (D, Ore.) just introduced a bill to give our bees a fighting chance. The “Save America’s Pollinators Act” will suspend the use of toxic, bee-killing pesticides until a full review of scientific evidence indicates they are safe and a field study demonstrates they do no harm to bees and other pollinators. The bees can’t wait, and neither can we. Please tell your congressional representative to co-sponsor the “Save America’s Pollinators Act” right now!

Around the world, bees are dying at alarming rates and new science is pointing to the world’s most popular class of pesticides called neonicotinoids (also called neonics), made by giant chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta, as the key factor in the global bee die-off crisis. These key pollinators need our help. Without immediate action to save bees, which pollinate two-thirds of our food crops, everything from almonds to strawberries could disappear from supermarket shelves. Europe has banned bee-killing pesticides but the EPA has delayed action until 2018. Fortunately, Representatives John Conyers (D, Mich.) and Earl Blumenauer (D, Ore.) just introduced a bill to give our bees a fighting chance. The “Save America’s Pollinators Act” will suspend the use of toxic, bee-killing pesticides until a full review of scientific evidence indicates they are safe and a field study demonstrates they do no harm to bees and other pollinators. The bees can’t wait, and neither can we. Please tell your congressional representative to co-sponsor the “Save America’s Pollinators Act” right now!

Around the world, bees are dying at alarming rates and new science is pointing to the world’s most popular class of pesticides called neonicotinoids (also called neonics), made by giant chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta, as the key factor in the global bee die-off crisis. These key pollinators need our help. Without immediate action to save bees, which pollinate two-thirds of our food crops, everything from almonds to strawberries could disappear from supermarket shelves. Europe has banned bee-killing pesticides but the EPA has delayed action until 2018. Fortunately, Representatives John Conyers (D, Mich.) and Earl Blumenauer (D, Ore.) just introduced a bill to give our bees a fighting chance. The “Save America’s Pollinators Act” will suspend the use of toxic, bee-killing pesticides until a full review of scientific evidence indicates they are safe and a field study demonstrates they do no harm to bees and other pollinators. The bees can’t wait, and neither can we. Please tell your congressional representative to co-sponsor the “Save America’s Pollinators Act” right now!