I think we know what all this plastic is doing to our earth and our waters. What can we do about it? Why not put deposits on all plastic, at the very least, water bottles.

On June 14, 2012 you voted against bringing the Updated Bottle Bill out of the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee although 77% of the Massachusetts populace supports expanding recycling in the state. 10,000 signatures in favor of the bill have been collected. The signatures below identify your constituents who encourage you to support the bill. Your job is to represent your constituents, please vote in such a manner.

I envision a nation wide MonoRail system running down the middle of the Interstate Hwy system. Why on that right of way? The grading is already done, so are the interchanges and there are pylons in place to tie in the MonoRail pylons and the concrete rail bed. Consider the advantages: Employment for millions, concrete mfg, rail-car design & mfg, electric engine mnfg, train maintenance, system maintenance, dramatic reduction of fossile fuel consumption (airplanes consume incredible amounts), safety, ease of transit for families, lower cost of transit, movement of goods (required to use the system), taking long-haul trucks of the hwys, convenience, reduction of foreign oil consumption (Mid-east conflict eliminated), greenhouse gas reduction (affecting global warming), automobile reduction (those companies could build coach frames etc. instead) and drastic reduction of undue influence of "Big Oil"----and many other advantages.

On June 14, 2012 you voted against bringing the Updated Bottle Bill out of the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee although 77% of the Massachusetts populace supports expanding recycling in the state. 10,000 signatures in favor of the bill have been collected. The signatures below identify your constituents who encourage you to support the bill. Your job is to represent your constituents, please vote in such a manner.

Cities use sewage treatment plants to deal with it, secondary effluent, solids removed is great algae food that's why at the North Lake Tahoe plant they've fully recycled wastewater to prevent algae blooms. But that's expensive, flocking chemicals are used to pull the fertilizer out of the water, so if you use algae instead they take longer but do a better job making a final treatment relatively cheap to fully recycle the water. Then, if you harvest that algae it's worth about 2-gallons of biodiesel per person on the system per day, so each of us on a treatment plant system is worth about 2-gallons of a biofuel per day. The USA burns through about 474-million gallons a day of all types of transportation fuels with 300-million people that's 1.58-gallons per person per day to show the potential volume of purifying wastewater with algae. For cities they have to watch for toxins and such but if not there the pressed cakes of algae are proving to be good fertilizer for certain crops, early tests in Egypt show a huge 25% jump in wheat yields an example. So, this establishes from existing local infrastructure a high-volume source of a biofuel, recycles the water and produces a high-volume fertilizer. An example is Phoenix, AZ, and nearby superbowl Glendale each produce 10-million gallons a day, 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer the algae must consume and doing that they consume CO2 and give off O2 to grow, then worth some 3-million gallons a day of biodiesel each city. However, the key issue is recycling the water, not making the fuel which is simple, recycling the water means keeping up with millions of gallons a day in volume, a more difficult task.

According to U.S. Navy estimates, the use of high frequency underwater sound for testing in Hawaii, the California and Atlantic Coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico will deafen more than 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next 5 years. Whales and dolphins depend on sound to navigate and live. Your signature and comment could stop this Naval program, potentially saving the lives of these ocean creatures.

This petition is to get Congress is to get serious about policy on global warming. It's about having a planet that our children and their children could live on. It's about taking seriously the disappearing islands, the intense weather patterns, and the urgent warning of scientists worldwide. It's about having the discussion based on science, not the will of the Koch brothers.

In a time when taxpayers are spending $325 million dollars to remove dams in Washington State due to the environmental devastation they cause, SnoPUD a local power company is planning to spend upwards of $150 million to erect a new dam on a river that has 4 levels of protection against dams. The project violates several environmental protections for rivers and clean water. Washington voters passed an initiative in 2006 (i937) to phase out hydropower in favor of renewable resources like wind, solar, geothermal, etc.. Washington State officials need to know SnoPUD must be held to same environmental restrictions as citizens, that we do not want any more dams, and SnoPUD must abandon the project immediately.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP: A NEW BEGINNING submitted to UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES by the NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP COUNCIL, INC. Erwin "Bud" Sholts, Chairman Post Office Box 232 Oregon, WI 53575-0232 Executive Summary For centuries industrial hemp (hereinafter referred to as hemp) has been grown commercially around the world. History is replete with accounts of the many vital uses of its fiber and oilseed. Paper, fuel, building material, and clothing are most widely known. The following materials sketch out a possible way forward for growing industrial hemp in the United States, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other government agencies.

We want a clear statement BEFORE the 2012 election! Do not keep us guessing!

There are two meeting scheduled for the public prior to the adoption of the proposed widening of 24th Street. The is the Plan A which takes the houses on the north side of street and walls it off. Plan B is to take the houses on the South side of the street. Plan C is to not to expand the street. That is the No Build Alternative. We support No Build Alternative. TRIP (Thomas Road Improvement Project) will be taking comments from the citizens before seeking approval with the City of Bakersfield Planning Commision scheduled for July 5, 2012. The project is expected to commence in 2013 if approved.

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