Last year North Carolina ranked 2nd (only to California) in terms of solar capacity added. But we still get less than 1% of our energy from the sun. Greensboro has a history of innovation, so we should encourage the city to take the lead on solar, and commit to getting 10% of it's energy from solar power. We can clean up the environment AND create local jobs at the same time. So let's Grow Solar Greensboro!

The current committee membership is not representative of the majority of state citizens.

Every year, over a million gallons of water go wasted and unused down the hillside behind the TxAIR buildings on the UT Tyler campus. This water strips topsoil from the ground and erodes the creek below during heavy rains. We want permission from the University to use this site for a garden and put this water to work irrigating our vegetables - instead of hurting our creek. If you want to save the creek, and grow some food, sign our petition and... Let's start a community garden at UT Tyler! PS - If you are a UT Tyler student, then include your 10 digit student ID with your name. Thanks! Also - please visit our Facebook page at Clean Food UT Tyler to stay in touch with this project and get important updates on our progress.

This issue should be a concern for everyone who has compassion for other human lives in this world. There is a constant daily deadline for so many lives on the African Continent. I see everyday how so many people take so much for granted here in the US. It makes me ashamed to call myself an American sometimes. I feel affected by this for the simple fact that I have come to know and love so many amazing and talented people from many parts of this beautiful continent that have become like family and I never want to say goodbye to them for something that can be helped. If nothing is done and we as a country keep allowing this to be for all those innocent men, women and children, then God have mercy on our souls. People seem to forget or not even care to remember the last time nothing was done for the innocent people of Rwanda: In just 100 days in 1994, some 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin...As reported by BBC NEWS. People here always say we need to take care of ourselves and our country first, but what if their loved ones were being slaughtered or starving or couldn't get medical help for lack of money? Would they feel the same?

UC Hastings students have a rich history of standing alongside UC Hastings workers in struggles for justice, from winning Union recognition to settling a first contract. After a year of negotiations, Hastings management is attempting to roll back critical staffing protections, freeze wages, and cut benefits. Worse, UC Hastings failed to bargain in good faith when management unilaterally implemented retirement cuts and contribution increases—an action for which the Public Employment Relations Board has issued a formal complaint. Rather than bad-faith bargaining, UC Hastings must instead follow the example set by other UC negotiators. The University of California has settled agreements with virtually all workers in the UC system. UC Hastings workers alone continue to work without a fair contract.

Right now FSU has corrupt influence from Koch coming in the form of 1) the 2008 and 2013 contracts which the American Association of University Professors deems a violation of academic freedom 2) a Board of Trustees chaired by the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Koch funded James Madison Institute 3) a seven time Koch funded President who lied about his Koch funding and supported a non-transparency bill that closed off public access to private donor-public university contract agreement meetings. Help us stop the capture of our university by Koch. The student demands and can be found at: http://bit.ly/1pwlk0g

I have identified 22 of the 31 trees that I don't think should be cut down. They don't meet the town Removal Criteria. I think pruning the trees or leaving the trees is what should be done. The town criteria is 1.Health/Safety 2.Disrupting Historic Object 3. Preventing Grass Growth 4. Blocking Historic Views 5. invasive

The Basic Education Funding Commission will be making recommendations about a funding system to the General Assembly. Every public school must have the resources necessary to enable every child the opportunity to learn, to meet state academic standards, to be prepared for post-secondary success, and become productive, knowledgeable, and engaged adults. The Commission must focus on the learning needs of children, not just the mechanics of distribution. The calculation for setting up a baseline funding level must be based on the real costs of sufficiently providing the programs and experiences that students need to meet any standards that are set by the state. Furthermore, the Commission must recommend a funding level that meets the Constitutional obligation to provide a “thorough and efficient” education and creates an equitable approach to allocating funds that reduces the influence of politics on school funding. We must ensure that the the public and our new Governor-elect have a reasonable opportunity to participate in this process.

In most of the U.S. adult adoptees are legally discriminated against. Outdated laws governing adoption make it virtually impossible for an adult adoptee or birth parent to connect with family. I'm an adoptee who found out late in life that I was adopted. It threw me for a loop but when I found out the state of NY prevented me from seeing my original birth certificate, denying my human right to know my family and ethnic origins, I was stunned.

We, the neighbors of SW 10 street and the Little Gables neighborhood, OBJECT to the residential property located at 4028 SW 10 street being re-zoned and turned into a parking lot. It would destroy our residential block, create safety concerns, diminish our property values, increase noise starting at 5:30am, and pump car pollution directly into our homes. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TO HELP SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

Everyday, instead of receiving the treatment we deserve, we are mistreated, bullied, abused, robbed, incarcerated, and sometimes killed by police fighting the war on drugs, from local police to federal agents at the DEA. Enough is Enough. We will never be able to eradicate drugs from this planet, it is not conceivable nor would most of us want to because these substances have beneficial, often medicinal value. The DEA's refusal to reschedule Marijuana, and their persistence in pursuing medical marijuana patients and their families is unacceptable and has damaged countless lives. Their draconian and unjust drug laws only target people of color and mentally ill drug addicts, and create black markets and organized crime. Stop wasting Billions of dollars a year on a war that you can not win. Let's put that Billions of dollars a year towards educating young people about drugs, without scare tactics, and treating addicts like the human beings that they are and help them to get the treatment they deserve. Kicking down our doors over a medicinal marijuana plant with a swat team is unacceptable and often dangerous behavior. Shut down the DEA now!

The U.S. House just voted to approve the pipeline and the Senate is expected to pass it within hours. This is a last-ditch effort by Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu to save her seat at the expense of our health and climate. Urge President Obama to veto the dangerous Keystone XL Pipeline!