The sale of John Denver's "Windstar foundation" has upset many of John 's susporters including myself. we need "Windstar, to educate on the importantance on the environment. protection and conservation for future generations to come."

There are so many bicyclists who ride the roads in the mountains, that bicycle paths would make it safer for them to enjoy their ride, and motorists would not be afraid of hitting one when they drive around a curve. Some places have such narrow curvy roads that it is impossible to pass a bicycle when going uphill. There is no need to widen any roads, but a well maintained bicycle path plus keeping the roads in good condition is a must.

As the mom of two young boys and the Co-Founder of a group called Climate Parents, I felt hopeful last week when President Obama announced his climate plan, which includes reducing carbon pollution from power plants and scaling up clean energy. I was dismayed and upset when West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a member of the President’s own party, called the plan designed to make the world more stable and safe for our kids, “a war on America.” This is a reckless position. The truth is that the dirty energy interests Senator Manchin represents are putting our kids in danger, and his own state is among the hardest hit. More than one in five West Virginia high school students suffers from asthma, and water supplies are heavily contaminated from mountaintop removal mining. And is if that weren’t enough, communities across America are facing increasingly destructive storms, heat waves and drought caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The President’s plan to regulate power plants represents one of the most significant steps our nation can take to cut carbon pollution, given the failure of Congress to take more comprehensive action. Parents, grandparents, and anyone who loves kids expect our leaders to promote energy that is kid safe and climate safe, not block progress because of allegiance to deep-pocketed fossil fuel companies. We want energy that doesn’t make our kids sick or threaten our communities by worsening climate change. Urge Senator Manchin to stop his dangerous rhetoric and publicly support the President’s plan to cut carbon emissions from coal plants. Thank you for taking action! Lisa Hoyos Co-Founder and Director Climate Parents

Extracting and burning more oil will accelerate the devastating consequences of climate change, with rising sea levels, more severe flooding, and superstorms like Sandy and Katrina that global warming breeds. Hampton Roads, the second most vulnerable coastal area next to New Orleans, cries out for clean energy - not more dirty fossil fuel oil - to reduce CO2 emissions, already perilously high at 400 parts per million.

UC has decided that rather than maintain its forests in the hills above the campus, it would prefer to simply remove all the tall trees. UC has received tentative approval for a FEMA grant of about $2 million that they intend to use to remove in excess of 50,000 mature trees, apply tens of thousands of gallons of herbicides over the next 13 years, and leave 2 feet of highly flammable wood chips on the ground. Not only will this plan destroy the animal habitat, it will remove essentially all the shade, will make the cleared areas as well as the UC campus and the city of Berkeley substantially warmer, will destabilize steep hillsides, will release enormous amounts of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere….and will significantly increase the risk of fires. Why does UC want to do this? To clear the land for development and to shift maintenance costs from the University to the federal government. So, what's the Berkeley City Council doing about this? NOTHING!

Pesticides have been shown to hurt people, pets and wildlife. The people of Minneapolis demand safe city spaces free from all pesticides and managed with organic practices.

The utilities companies botched repairs at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Now the plant is closed, and the utility companies want California customers to pay over $500 million for the ill-fated repairs. We say the utilities companies should pay, not consumers. Las empresas de servicios públicos hicieron reparaciones chapuzas en la Central Nuclear San Onofre. Ahora la planta está cerrada, y las empresas de servicios públicos quieren que los clientes de California paguen más de $500 millones para las reparaciones de la malograda. Decimos que las compañías de servicios públicos deben pagar, no los consumidores.

We wish to thank you for your leadership in climate change policy. After decades of indifference and denial, climate change is now the international emergency of the highest order. Nothing less than survival of life on Earth is at stake.

Background: On June 25, 2013 President Obama announced the most ambitious national plan ever to combat carbon pollution and lead global efforts to tackle climate change. It would: • Cut carbon pollution from power plants, the largest single source of this pollution • Increase energy efficiency of appliances • Boost clean, renewable energy, like solar • Help American people, businesses and communities deal with the effects of climate change. If America fails to act, climate change would be even more severe: More destructive and deadly extreme weather; rising global temperatures; rising seas battering coastlines; life-threatening diseases; and skyrocketing costs for disaster recovery.

Politicians won't talk about climate change and the media won't cover it - they are lying by omission by not telling us what we need to know. In fact, ABC, CBS, and NBC covered climate change in 2012 only 12 times combined. With your help, Globalsolutions.org is going to push climate change into public discussion and raise awareness. We're then going to get the US to do something about climate change because we can't be a world leader on sensible climate policy if we don't have a track record of our own.

Every summer, hundreds of veterans head to Bristol Bay, Alaska to earn a living as commercial fishermen. It's not easy work and it separates them from their families -- again -- but in this tough economy it pays well and takes care of things back home. Unfortunately, two foreign mining companies with connections to the Koch Brothers are trying to dig a mine near the Bay that would destroy these jobs and lay waste to the environment. Because of our unique voice as veterans and military-family members, we were asked to take action on this issue. It was a no-brainer. Sign our petition today.

The Fort Collins City Council overturned the fracking ban in Fort Collins in May of 2013 despite overwhelming citizen participation in favor of an un-exempted ban on 'fracking.' 'Fracking' is a heavy industrial activity and extremely water-intensive process in which a mixture of millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals (including ones proven to cause cancer) are injected underground to fracture rock to extract oil or gas from underground. The Fort Collins City council will be having a work session on Tuesday, June 25 to discuss a 5 year moratorium on 'fracking.' Tell the Fort Collins City Council that it is their job to do their due diligence to protect the citizens of Fort Collins. The undersigned request that the Fort Collins City Council enact a 5 year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing within Fort Collins jurisdiction, pending studies on its impacts to public health, safety & property values.