The Maryland State Assembly recently failed to pass a bill for an offshore wind farm. We have a significant source of renewalbe energy, and we need to start using it as soon as possible. All obstacles become meaningless when we remember that we must stop environmental destruction or there's nothing left for any of us of any political party or persuasion, or our children. This is a way to move off of fossil fuel dependence.

Tim Dechristopher stopped the illegal sales of our National parks mineral rights and is serving prison time. Parole hearing is in July

Nominate Timothy Dechristopher for the Presidential Citizen Medal http://www.whitehouse.gov/citizensmedal/submit-a-nomination. He stopped the illegal sale of mineral rights to the National Parks and is presently in jail for his heroic

In Boston, residents can put all their recycling outside together, without separating it. Machines do the sorting for them. This makes people much more likely to recycle, and it saves time. New York should do the same!

Canadian oil giant Enbridge has applied for fast-track approval of the first stage of a proposed project to bring tar sands oil from eastern Canada to Portland, using a 1950s oil pipeline that passes next to Sebago Lake. Sign our petition to the Canadian National Energy Board to protect Sebago Lake from dirty tar sands oil.

THE USE OF LEAF BLOWERS BRINGS IN NOXIOUS FUMES AND A BARRAGE OF OTHER TOXINS INTO OUR HOMES, APTS, LAWNS, CHILDREN AND PETS, BIRDS, BABY BIRD NESTS, TREES AND THE GARDENS THEY ARE "CLEANING -UP" ALL END UP IN DANGEROUS TERRITORY - WE CAN USE SOMETHING INSTEAD TO CLEAN UP LEAVES - RAKES AND BROOMS - BRING BACK THE BROOM

Stop the poisoning of our air, earth, water and our bodies. The side effects of this so called weather modification to prevent global warming are so much worse than the problem. PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELVES ON THIS ISSUE.

According to SourceWatch, State Farm Insurance is a major supporter of ALEC, the group that came up with "model legislation" adopted by a number of Republican-led state legislatures such as the Stand Your Ground law in Florida, voter ID laws that disenfranchise poor, elderly and minority voters, and the attacks on unions in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. State Farm is different from most of the other members of ALEC because it is not investor-owned. State Farm is a mutual benefit corporation, a kind of financial cooperative, which means that it is owned by its policy-holders, pooling their money to provide insurance services. The money it gives to ALEC rightfully belongs to its policyholder-owners, and State Farm has no right to use it to fund ALEC's right-wing agenda. You do not need to be a State Farm policyholder to sign! If you are, please leave a comment about how long you have been with State Farm and how many policies you have with them.

We have been watching this country's own forests, roadways, and waterways fill with filthy trash and debris for over fifty years. It is time to begin removing and safely disposing of the plastic and metal in our neighborhoods, fields, and streams. It is time to correctly manage our forests by clearing dead wood and overgrowth. Legal use of our forest and park wood can create jobs and offer a chance to create clean wood energy; enabling this nation to use a long abandoned home energy. We should call on our area delegates, park services, and our neighbors to begin safe initiations for registered citizens to start actual physical clean-up programs in their local areas, and at state and national levels. Our citizens are our best resource for this job of imperative. The dead-line is yesterday. Our fellow creatures suffer, the health of our continent suffers, and our children see an impossible mess. This is our job. Delay on this issue can only mean, more ugly, choking debris, and unhealthy farmlands, forests, and rivers.

The North Carolina legislature is prepared to legalize fracking, a practice that is known to create earth tremors. The Shearon Harris nuclear plant is less than 15 miles from proposed fracking sites in Chatham County. And on January 22, 2010 officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that the electrical generator from the damaged Unit 2 reactor at Three Mile Island will be used at Shearon Harris. So, not only does the NC legislature want to approve fracking near the population centers of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, it risks water contamination, methane gas pollution and destruction of roadways that will carry thousands of truckloads of chemicals and water to pump millions of gallons deep into the earth. We must stop this insanity.

Alternative Energy sources like Wind and Solar power could help to reduce or eliminate energy cost for Low-Income Families and Individuals. There should be a grant that providers of Low-Income housing should be able to get that would assist in the building and maintaining of Wind generators that have been developed for Urban use, and for Solar panels that follow the sun and capture a much higher degree of energy.

The US House, as part of its transportation bill, is preparing to gut our basic environmental laws to allow the construction of new highways and other projects. If you care about our last remaining wild places, please ask your Representative to oppose the environmentally damaging aspects of the bill, and sign this petition.