At this moment, our oceans are filled with 315 billion pounds of plastic, which collects in giant sinks. Think of a plastic soup seasoned with toxic chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA). These toxins are harmful to humans, the marine environment, and our ecosystems. So what is the first step in solving this problem? Stop using unnecessary plastics like bottled water, which are expensive and detrimental to our environment: 1. Bottled water is 2,800 times more expensive than tap water. 2. Chemical additives found in plastic water bottles can be harmful to human health. 3. Bottled water is not always safer since bottled water companies are not required by law to report quality testing results or to disclose their water sources to consumers. 4. Five of every six plastic water bottles are not recycled, crowding landfills and polluting the environment. 5. The total amount of energy required to produce every bottle is equivalent to filling a plastic bottle ¼ full with oil. 6. It takes 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water. 7. More than 25% of bottled water brands are drawn from municipal water supplies, the same place that tap water comes from. A number of universities, including Washington University in St. Louis and Loyola University Chicago have already banned the sale of plastic water bottles on their campuses. Our Engineers for a Sustainable World team, Pura Playa, seeks to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus (note: this does not include non-water drinks like soda, juice, etc.). Help us restore our oceans to their natural states by signing the petition below. Sources: 1. 5 Gyres Institute 2. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 3. Environmental Protection Agency 4. U.S. Government Accountability Office 5. National Geographic 6. Pacific Institute

Every day NYC public schools use and discard 850,000 Styrofoam trays for school meals. That's a stack of trays over 2 miles high that goes in to our landfills, every single day! Besides the huge impact that this has on the environment, we are exposing our children to toxins from the trays when we place their food directly on it. Mayor Bloomberg has publicly declared his commitment to green policies and our environment and once said, "All our children deserve a healthy start in life. Many people call that environmental justice; I simply call it the right thing to do." I know that with parents, teachers, and DOE staff working together, we can affect change to an environmentally responsible and economically feasible solution. I am appealing to Mayor Bloomberg to become personally involved in making this change, As mayor, he has the authority and influence to find a workable solution in a much smaller timeframe than a grassroots organization of parents and teachers. Mayor Bloomberg, do the right thing for our environment and our children: stop using Styrofoam trays in NYC schools and replace them with an environmentally friendly alternative.

A piece on NPR predicted that President Obama is likely to approve the pipeline in the name of energy security and perhaps jobs. Given the energy savings projected from vehicle MPG savings, this is exactly the wrong message to send to the American people and the world. Instead we need to implement the recommendations contained in Amory Lovins' "REINVENTING FIRE: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era".

I am 12 years old. I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. By myself I can't, but with your help, we can change a lot of things! Your name means a lot!! TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN THE PETITION! It will only thake you 2 minutes!! A C T N O W ! ! !

There is fracking going on in California. The oil companies have somehow not had to conduct environmental studies. They are NOW being required to let landowners know that there is fracking going on in the vicinity. the environmental damage due to fracking is devastating. I thought we were an environmentally 'aware' state.

Jim Sensenbrenner seeks the top House Science Committee post. Jim still does not think that Climate Change is real. He still pushes a big oil based agenda - discrediting years of quality research form our top scientists and researchers round the world. Either Jim is truly clueless when it comes to this, or more likely he has a hidden agenda - claiming that these fully legitimate climate findings are bunk so he can try to convince the American public that there is no climate issue, and that we can simply keep burning fossil fuels and burning coal like there is no problem. We are smarter than that, and we know it's a problem. As long as there are House members who are manipulating the facts to their own nefarious ends, America's move towards the future of Power will be delayed. Science=YES | Jim=NO! http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/11/its-official-sensenbrenner-seeks.html

Ken Salazar is illegally rounding up wild horses and burros in the midwest's public lands, against the Wild Horse and Burro Act protections and is selling them to kill buyers. He is managing our American Legacy to extinction.

Fracking is risky business at best and dangerous to the populous in the extreme at its worst. Fracking is a disaster waiting to happen. Decaying mantle, polluted waterways, contaminated drinking water, and caustic infringement on pristine natural areas are some of the consequences and costs to the environment and human lives of fracking. The science is not in yet and the benefits, both in terms of energy savings and job creation are still claims not evidenced or demonstated. We urge Pat McCrory to lead on this issue and show us that he cannot be bought by industry interests.

Save the historic salmon DBS steelhead runs in Walnut Creek and feeder streams from habitat degradation and fish and game refusal to manage run sustainably.

San Juan county just became the first in our state to become GMO free. Farmers united with locals to make it so. If we do not protect the integrity of our farms, we cannot insure the safety of our children's futures. GMO's are a corporate intrusion we cannot afford. Let's make Skagit County the second GMO free county!

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L.A.’s landfills are overflowing, half our city can’t recycle and dirty waste trucks are polluting our communities. All this can change – but only if you demand that city leaders take action. They need to hear from you, because waste companies, landlords, big business and their lobbyists that make a killing off our current dirty system are doing everything they can to prevent change. A majority of our councilmembers already have pledged their support for the solution that’s best for Los Angeles. But the pressure is on, and there are five council members who need to hear from all of us before November 14. Please tell City Councilmembers Tom LaBonge, Paul Krekorian, Herb Wesson, Joe Buscaino and Jose Huizar to vote YES on an exclusive franchise for L.A.’s commercial and multifamily waste system. It's up to us to ensure that special interests don’t bully our city leaders against moving ahead and doing the right thing.