As one of the largest universities in the state and an advocate for energy sustainability, VCU must do everything in its power to encourage clean, renewable energy projects in Virginia. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation, our university is located in the asthma capital of the country -- for two years running. Virginia Beach lands a number eight spot. One of the main reasons is due to poor air quality. VCU has a great opportunity to play a role in changing this by achieving the university's stated goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Dominion Virginia Power is VCU's sole provider of electricity and VCU cannot "go green" without a shift from Dominion towards clean, renewable energy. Our main goal is to get students across the state to sign on in support of this movement. However, any support we can generate throughout the state will help our overall cause so please, if you sign this petition, clarify whether or not you are associated with VCU.

Senate Bill 2109 Seeks to Extinguish Navajo and Hopi Water Rights - Say No to SB 2109 HR Bill 4067 and the further raping of Native American rights.

By Ed Becenti Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUBA CITY, ARIZONA -- Arizona Senators Jon Kyl (R- AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) are coming to Tuba City on Thursday, April 5, 2012, to persuade Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribal leaders to give up their peoples’ aboriginal and Treaty-guaranteed priority Water Rights by accepting a “Settlement Agreement” written to benefit some of the West’s most powerful mining and energy corporations. Senate Bill 2109 --the "Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act of 2012" was introduced by Kyl and McCain on February 14, 2012, and is on a fast track to give Arizona corporations and water interests a “100th birthday present” that will close the door forever on Navajo and Hopi food and water sovereignty, security and self-reliance. S.2109 asks the Navajo and Hopi peoples to waive their priority Water Rights to the surface waters of the Little Colorado River “from time immemorial and thereafter, forever” in return for the shallow promise of uncertain federal appropriations to supply minimal amounts of drinking water to a handful of reservation communities. The Bill -- and the ‘Settlement Agreement” it ratifies – do not quantify Navajo and Hopi water rights – the foundation of all other southwestern Indian Water Rights settlements to date – thereby denying the Tribes the economic market value of their water rights, and forcing them into perpetual dependence on uncertain federal funding for any water projects. Senators Kyl and McCain know well that without Water, life is not possible. Yet, their Bill and the ‘Settlement Agreement” close the door forever to any possibility of irrigated agriculture and water conservation projects to heal and restore Navajo and Hopi watersheds (keeping sediment from filling downstream reservoirs); to grow high-value income and employment-producing livestock and crops for Navajo, Hopi and external markets; and to provide once again for healthy, diabetes- and obesity-free nutrition and active lifestyles for all future generations of Navajo and Hopi children. Kyl and McCain Senators Kyl and McCain demand that the Navajo and Hopi people waive and give up all their rights to legal protection of injury to surface and ground water supply and quality in the past, present, and future -- yet the Navajo and Hopi peoples do not even know the full extent and nature of the rights they are being pressured to waive because the details of the “Settlement Agreement” are not being shared with the public. This is wrong. Navajo and Hopi water and public health have already been damaged severely by past uranium and coal mining in and upstream of Navajo and Hopi communities. Senators Kyl and McCain are trying now to take away all rightful legal protections against the present and real danger of such contaminations occurring again. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” deny the Navajo and Hopi people the resources and means to assess comprehensive long-term water needs of every community, village, and watershed; and deny the resources and means to plan for, and develop sufficient domestic, municipal, industrial and agricultural “wet water” projects essential to the permanent well-being, prosperity and health of their homelands and children’s children. This is absolutely counter to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1908 Winter’s Doctrine that explicitly reserves and safeguards the water needed for that permanent well-being and prosperity. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” deny the Navajo and Hopi people the resources and means to bank their own waters, or to recharge their aquifers depleted and damaged by the mining and energy corporations that S.2109 benefits. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” require Navajo and Hopi to give Peabody Coal Mining Company and the Salt River Project and other owners of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) tens of thousands of acre-feet of Navajo and Hopi water annually – without any compensation – and to force the extension of Peabody and NGS leases without Navajo and Hopi community input, or regard for past and continuing harmful impacts to public health, water supplies and water quality – as necessary pre-conditions to Navajo and Hopi receiving Congressional appropriations for minimal domestic water development. This is coercive and wrong.

It is finding new alternative fuels, which are safer for the environment. It is said that sorghum, sugar cane and kelp can be made into gasoline like oil.

Ever notice all the debris on the side of the roads? A lot of this debris is left-over debris from traffic accidents. I believe the person in charge of removing this debris is the tow truck driver. I know they sweep up a little bit from the road, but a lot of it is left behind on the side of the road. Why can't the tow truck driver be prepared with the necessary tools to remove all the parts and debris. Throw it all inside the damaged vehicles, that's where it all came from to begin with.

Many violators of firearm use in housing developments are discharging high powered rifles and machine guns. There is also the issue of poaching which is becoming common place because of lax laws. Streams are being polluted by the lead deposited in them which feed into the local wells. There is also the issue of Breach of Peace, devaluation of property and nuisance attraction by children. When poachers are in your backyard...it is time to take a stand! This would in no way interfere with the right to carry a handgun in a legal fashion or defend your property/life. Also, it would not interfere with firing at legally operated ranges.

The nation is moving in this direction already. First smoking was banned on airplanes; then in the workspace; later, extended to restaurants and even bars. New York City banned smoking in stadia and taxis and extended the law to include all public parks and beaches last year. Most jurisdictions have banned smoking in cars when there are children present. However, entering a public building or even walking down the street is still like running the gauntlet and hazardous to one's health. While smokers should be able to retain some rights, their rights should terminate at non-smokers' noses. If you can smell it, you're being exposed to carcinogens, which is simply not only hazardous, but unfair. Smoking causes 440,000 deaths in America annually and adds to the burden on the health care system and tax payers along with lost productivity in the workplace. I urge reasonable people to support the notion of further restricting smoking in all public spaces where others may be exposed.

The Solar renewable Energy market has been severely hurt by over-production of Solar Electricity in NJ. NJ residents that invested in NJ's future are being hurt and workers who are employed in the solar industry are being laid off due to the lack of response from the NJ Legislature. They need to take action quickly to protect residents investment and workers jobs in the solar industry.

We all have a nuclear Sword of Damoclese over our heads, unless We the Common People demand its complete eradication by the year 2030.

SkyTran is a personal rapid transit system that would allow commuters and others to travel in small, automated cars suspended above the road, directly to their destinations, without having to deal with slow bus times, other passengers, traffic, or set schedules: just get in the next available car, tell it where you want to go, and it takes you there, bypassing all road-based congestion.

WE THE PEOPLE WILL STOP BUYING GAS from EXXON to demonstrate PEOPLE POWER on the CLIMATE CRISIS from burning dirty poisonous diesel oil that is causing the Climate Crisis and 70% of Lung Cancer. Start using the ALCOHOL ENERGY SECURITY ACT; originally signed by former President Jimmy Carter under National Security. Start burning Clean & Safe AQUAHOL (80% alcohol 20% H20). www.alcohol-injection-inc.com

This petition is about the sensible use of resources with an eye to ecological preservation. People should sign it as a decisive step toward reclaiming the natural environment from corporate contmainants and preserving it against them. Banning plastic bags would be a great step in reducing unrecyclable trash, biodegradable sacks can be made from potatoes, corn and many of the GMO products we no longer want to consume ourselves. It would take much less petrolium to produce and ship biodegradable bags than plastic bags, which are mostly made from petrolium. This has worked in San Frascisco, now Austin, TX has banned plastic bags, it is our turn. If everyone brought their canvas bags to the store, each time they shopped, we as a consumer would have already decided this for grocery and retail outlets, but we forget, when we forget we no longer have the option if shopping for more than a few items. Please sign this... my friend started this for me. Please sign it and share it..If this works, my next petition will be to the city on making trafic flow better, I think it is such a waste of petrolium to stop at every light..