Let's reduce our dependency on petroleum based plastic bags in North Carolina. Several large retailers have already started this initiative as well as small ones and we can follow their lead and also push legislation like in California that is attempting to do the same. This measure would reduce landfill waste by thousands of tons every year, save oceanic and other wildlife and increase public awareness about global warming.

Climate change

If enough people understand place this petition, on the ballot in their city during 2014, we can bring the change we need. Pot laws changed, city by city. Feed-in Tariff laws can also be changed, city by city. Start a petition in your city today. Yes, it is a lot of work to gather 9,000 signatures, but it can be done. It is necessary to educate people. It is now 2014. If you work real smart now, by 2015, you could have 9,000 signatures and maybe a city council person or Mayor will place it on the ballot. Solar has been proven to be the best way to create 22 million new jobs for the US, generate $9 billion new cash flow for the US, and best of all shut down all nukes. Germany is doing just that. Germany just achieved 51% of all its power from solar in May 2013. Germany will shut down all its nukes by 2022. California could achieve 100% solar power by 2030. Residential home owners should be allowed to oversize their Renewable Energy systems and participate in the State mandated goal to achieve 33% renewable energy by 2020. California resident who purchase an electric vehicle can expect a 60% increase in their electric bill, as shown by a study done by Purdue University in summer of 2010, unless they have solar panels. Due to these laws, we have automatically barred over 8 million roof tops, that would be able to generate over 11,500 MW of power. That's 5 San Onofre nuclear power plants. Solar can shut down all nukes. Germany just made over 33 Gigiwatts of solar power. We need to let our Home Owning citizens in on a Feed in Tariff that pays 0.54 cents per kwh., and allow Homeowners to oversize their Renewable Energy Systems.

water pollution for the midwest.

We care about our community. Kirkland/Juanita communities have wonderful, comprehensive recycling/composting programs....why isnt Starbucks doing it's part? they need to have recycling/composting containers in their stores?!

I do not have any statistics on this. I can only imagine the tonnage of waste daily from printing receipts that never get used. Receipts should be on request only.

As a young adult, I've lived in a lot of apartment complexes and worked in a lot of restaurants. None of them have had recycling centers on the premesis! I know a lot of people my age care about the environment and try to recycle, but what do you when your job forces you to throw away literally tons of recyclable materials like styrofoam and glass bottles? Or your nearest recycling center is ten miles away, instead of a few hundred feet like the apartment complex dumpster? I think for us to start planning a greener future we need to make recycling more accessible- put receptacles in restaurants and apartment complexes!

Chickens are currently allowed on properties that are at least 1 acre. However, by allowing backyard chickens on smaller lots, wholesome, cage free eggs will be more readily accessible. Children will learn responsibility and chickens will help with the daily chores such as getting rid of kitchen scraps and yard waste, and pest control.

Sixth Extinction Event we are well into now.

We have allowed other countries lower wages, a lack of workers safety and disregard for the environment to be our Achilles tendon for too long and it's time to real that in and balance the economics of all workers in the world for stability.

Gas-powered lea fblowers are illegal in Ojai, yet they are used by the City Hall itself. It's time to take back the tranquility of our neighborhoods: Ban the Blowers!

In order to stay safe and warm when the I-5 interstate mountain freeway to California is not passable due to snow and ice, semi-truck drivers leave their motors running through out the night in the parking lot beside our local Ashland Oregon Shop 'n Kart just off exit 14. Like many local Ashland residents, My daughter and I live less than a block away, and I regret to report that we can smell diesel fumes and hear their engines rumbling durring these hazardous traveling times. Unfortunately however, the nitrogen oxide (NOx) adsorbers, sulfur dioxide, and sulfur trioxide released when burning diesel gasoline hovers in the air in our neighborhood, due to the weather trapping effect called an inversion layer, which is a common event in Ashland Oregon. We must require resting semi-truck drivers to shut off their engines after 10 minutes.