Recycling and sustainability have long been a great concern for me because it is a simple thing to do but it can make a huge difference. The facts are clear from the 10 states with bottle bills that many jobs are created (The Container Recycling Institute's documented study estimates a national bottle deposit law will create 100,000 jobs), litter is dramatically reduced (cuts costly taxpayer-funded roadside and waterway clean-ups), and recycling participation improves significantly with financial incentive (20% participation rate rises to 80% almost overnight with container deposit law and bag tax implementation). A National $.25 Single-use Use Bag Tax would give $.05 back to retailers to enable them to do free or low-cost reusable bag promotions. $.10 would go directly into a grant program established by local communities to fund community building but chronically underfunded programs for youth and others in mentoring, animal and nature therapy and education, sustainable community gardens, the arts, and a wide range of non-profit and school groups that are really making a difference and need to be expanded instead of cut. The final $.10 would go to land and sea plastic pollution clean-up efforts and awareness campaigns. Hundreds of tons of carbon are prevented from being released by using recycled over virgin materials in container production. Reduced consumption of bags is also a greenhouse gas saver. Taxing an industry that is creating a burden on society is not a new idea; adopting a nationwide bottle and bag bill is common sense. A federal law would require that all states have their own container deposit and single-use bag tax/grant programs in place by September, 2013. I will be riding my bike from Montana to Washington,D.C. to deliver the signatures on this petition (please follow Wren's Ride on Facebook and Share! ) I am hoping to create a happy Mother's Day for Mother Earth by having a groundswell of support and convincing our corporate and government leaders to take clear and swift action to set our nation on a more sustainable and peaceful path. (Please see the World Bank's new PSA "4 Degrees Hotter by 2100" urging immediate action regarding greenhouse gases and climate change) Thank you for your support, together we can make a difference!

Please read the information below. If you agree that hydraulic fracturing should be banned in Colorado, sign my petition using your full name, and if you're part of a couple please take time to sign individually. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a process used in the majority of natural gas wells in Colorado, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped to depths as much as 10,000 feet below the surface of the earth to break apart bedrock formations and release trapped natural gas [1]. Many of the chemicals used in fracking are known to cause adverse health effects, including cancer [2]. Fracking also releases radioactive substances and other naturally occurring toxins embedded deep in bedrock [3]. After a well is fracked, an average of 50% of the toxic soup returns to the surface (called “flowback”). It’s either dumped into an open pit “holding pond" and the toxins allowed to evaporate into our air and leach into our soil, or transported “away” and dumped into injection wells, often in undisclosed locations, where its presumably gone “forever” [4]. Clean water is “recycled” over and over again for new fracks until it becomes so saturated with toxic chemicals that it can’t be returned to the water cycle from which it came [5]. To make matters worse, the oil and gas industry is exempt from numerous environmental laws including the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act and Hazardous Waste Regulations [6]. There is no such thing as "away" and "forever". When a toxic chemical is introduced into the surface environment it mixes with our soil, air and water where it continues to circulate. Once fracked, toxic chemicals can percolate slowly upward from the subsurface through existing natural fractures and deteriorated well casings, creating a long-term threat to our aquifers and drinking water [7]. According to the COGCC’s own records, thousands of releases have occurred in Colorado where toxic chemicals from fracking have poisoned the land, wildlife, and humans [8],[9]. In some cases, even death has resulted [10]. No business, and no benefits resulting from doing such a business, is worth the loss of our health, safety and the pursuit of happiness. Fracking threatens our air and water and all living organisms that rely on a healthy environment. There is growing evidence that chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing are increasing cancer rates [11],[12]. Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers has opened at least 17 cancer centers across Colorado in the last decade [13]. Could the next boom in our economy be the treatment of cancer, resulting from the chemical exposure of fracking fluids in our soil, water and air? Please sign this petition and let Colorado's Governor and state legislature know the People of Colorado want a ban on the dangerous and life-threatening process of hydraulic fracturing. To learn more and support the campaign, visit: Banfrackingcolorado.blogspot.com Mary Russell, Garfield County Endorsed by*: GrassRoots Energy activist Network (GREEN) (http://grassrootsenergynet.blogspot.com/p/aboutsupport.html) Our Healthy Earth: Inspiring Sustainability through Education Renewable Communities Alliance (http://www.renewablecommunities.org) Citizens for Huerfano County (www.huerfanofrack.com/) Commerce City Unite NOW (https://www.facebook.com/CommerceCityUniteNow/timeline) Adams County Unite NOW (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adams-County-Unite-NOW/437630749622216) The Mother's Project-Colorado (http://www.mothersforsustainableenergy.com) Rio Grand Watchdogs (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rio-Grande-Watchdogs/109319245803522) Sustainable Earth Education and Development (http://www.seed-llc.org) Denver Community Rights (http://www.denvercommunityrights.org) Citizens for a Healthy Community (http://www.citizensforahealthycommunity.org/) What the Frack?! Arapahoe (http://frackingcolorado.wordpress.com) Colorado Citizens Against Toxicwaste, Inc (http://www.ccatoxicwaste.org) *If your group is interested in endorsing this petition contact: [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________ [1] ProPublica, What is Hydraulic Fracturing?, http://www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing-national [2] Earthworks, Hydraulic Fracturing 101, http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/hydraulic_fracturing_101#CHEMICALS [3] Hammer, Rebecca and VanBriesen J. Ph.D., PE, “In Fracking’s Wake: New Rules are Needed to Protect Our Health and Environment from Contaminated Waste Water”, NRDC Document, May 2012: 12-05-A, http://www.nrdc.org/energy/fracking-wastewater.asp [4] Garfield County pits, A Photo Essay by Judy Jordan (former Garfield County Oil & Gas Liaison. http://fromthestyx.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/garfield-county-pits/ [5] The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, “Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations:Introduction”. http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.introduction.php and US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, “Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing”, April 2011 (view or download here). [6] Earthworks: “Gaps in Federal Oversight of Oil and Gas Production”, http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/gaps_in_federal_oversight [7] Tom Myers. “Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale to Aquifers.” Ground Water. April 17, 2012, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00933.x/abstract [8 Earthworks, Colorado Contamination incidents, http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/colorado_contamination_incidents [9] Bruce Finley, Denver Post, Drilling spills rise in Colorado, but fines rare, http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18881512 [10] Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Letter to Governor Cuomo about fracking: http://steingraber.com/ [11] Dave Fehling, NPR State Impact, Texas, Texas ‘Needs More Research’ into Health Risk of Living Near Drilling Sites, http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/08/20/texas-to-investigate-health-risk-of-living-...

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Monsanto has been spending billions of dollars to keep consumers in the dark about Genetically Modified Foods. Many of these harmful and toxic foods are already making it on to your dinner table, without your knowledge. If you care about the ingredients that you and your family are eating, please sign this petition. Thank you.

No computerized voting. it is too easy to corupt the vote.

All Hoosiers will see higher heating bills if Leucadia Corp. out of New York builds its coal gasification plant in southern Indiana. It converts coal to synthesized gas for heating homes and businesses. The gas will cost more than natural gas and result in higher heating bills. The Indiana legislature passed a series of laws to force ratepayers to cover all costs for Leucadia. Mike Pence, candidate for governor, should support legislation to repeal those laws and force Leucadia to compete with the free market.

The Foothill Trabuco Specific Plan (FTSP) requires development in Trabuco Canyon to be rural in character and protect the area's ancient oak forests, scenic ridgelines, and other cherished natural resources. But Rutter Development Corporation refuses to follow the FTSP and instead proposes gutting it, along with the Orange County General Plan, to allow construction of its 65-unit suburban sprawl "Saddle Crest" housing tract along Santiago Canyon Road north of Cook's Corner. Rutter's amendments would allow him to congest 2-lane Santiago Canyon Road, cut down over 150 mature oak trees, bulldoze ridgetops, and fill up canyons over 70 feet deep, and any developer coming after him to do the same. We are asking Orange County supervisors to say "NO" to Saddle Crest and Rutter's plan gutting amendments when they vote on October 2.

I have personally been devastated by this issue. Toxic chemicals in new carpeting caused me permanent heart damage, excruciating fibromyalgia, central nervous system damage, neurological damage, and the list goes on and on. We need for Senator Harry Reid to bring this act to the floor of the Senate, said act introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. Cancer rates, asthma rates, you name it, chemicals are adversely effecting our air, water, land, homes, workplaces and contributes greatly each year to our ridiculous health care costs. Please contact your congressmen and senators to urge the passage of the Safe Chemicals Act.

Hi everyone who wants to preserve the trees and wilderness in Glen Canyon: Rec & Park is planning to remove the first 60 to 70 trees soon and has already posted 30 day notices, so the clock is ticking, with tree removal to begin after October 15th. This is just the start of the Rec & Park tree removal projects that will likely cut 300 to 400 trees to permanently mar the character of Glen Canyon Park while continuing to waste limited RPD funds. For more information about what is going on in Glen Canyon, please visit: sfglencanyon.net What you can do now: **PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION **Come to the SF Forest community meeting: Saturday, October 6th, 3pm at the Recreation Center in Glen Canyon Park -- 70 Elk Street. **Contact: Rec & Parks Commission: [email protected], Supervisor Scott Wiener: [email protected] and the Mayor: [email protected] **Get involved and let others know If you would like to help with the effort to stop the deforestation of Glen Canyon Park or Mount Davidson, please contact the San Francisco Forest Alliance: website: sfforest.net facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ForestAlliance Thank you for helping! Sincerely, the Team at SFForest Alliance

Apple iPhone5 substitutes Apple Maps for Google Maps. Apple Maps cannot route you on transit–only driving. Google Maps is the transcendent resource for routing yourself around any city, anywhere, that has transit service. Apple needs to keep serving those of us who love Apple AND love transit.

California law does not allow homeowners to size their Solar systems larger than what they use. In order to get the California Solar Initiative (CSI) rebate, the customer is not allowed to install a system that inherently over-produces more than what is needed for his home. We need to get our homes ready for Electrical Vehicles. Our California Residential Feed-In Tariff should start out at 50 cents per kilowatt hour, 5 cents per kilowatt hour to the Utility for use of the Grid, 45 cents per kilowatt hour going to the Home Owner. A California Commercial FiT in Los Angeles, Palo Alto and Sacramento, CA. is operating NOW, paying the Business Person 17 cents cents per kilowatt hour. The California Public Utility commission can change the FIT to payment levels that are differentiated appropriately, and distribute the solution to all tax-paying citizens, who should not be deliberately handcuffed. Residential homeowners should be allowed to oversize their Renewable Energy systems and participate in the State mandated goal to achieve 33% Renewable Energy by 2020. Due to these laws, we have automatically taken out over 8 million Residential Home Owners who would generate over 6,000 MW of power; that's 2.25 San Onofre nuclear power plants. We need to let our Hard Working, Tax Paying, Voting, Law Abiding, Home Owning Citizens in on a Feed-In Tariff, and allow Homeowners to oversize their Renewable Energy Systems. "Right now the course of our future is being set by the fossil fuel industry, the most powerful corporations in the history of the world, and they’re steering us off a cliff into a raging inferno. They fight each day to blow up more mountains for coal, demolish more land and oceans for oil and shatter more of the ground beneath our feet by fracking for oil and gas with a cocktail of the most toxic chemicals known to humankind. With each passing day that these interests set our course, with every additional ton of greenhouse gases emitted like a poison in our atmosphere, the drier the ink becomes on the bleak future written by the fossil fuel industry. That future is one where oceans drown our coastal homes and cities, where biodiversity is diminished. It’s a future where droughts will parch our agricultural fields and allow wildfires to run rampant. It’s a future where clean, freshwater will be among the world’s scarcest resources, and where smog and pollution suffocate our lungs and the planet’s. Given the fossil fuel industry’s seemingly unlimited money and political influence, changing their course and taking control of our future is a tall order. But again, we must. And all of you, can make the choices that lead you to seize that control. I can tell you how significant a difference each of us can make, how important the choices we make can be and the power we have in this country." John Armstrong

The medicinal marijuana plant can be used as a cheaper alternative to produce fuel,paper,food,oil,textiles,housing, and inspiration. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it as they established our country! Decriminalizing the use of Hemp and Cannabis can save us $7 billion dollars a year and can produce thousands of jobs! Legalize it and tax it to profit our nation!