Coal-powered electricity-generating plants are the biggest contributors of CO2 emissions. We have already exceeded the tipping point with CO2 emissions, and we cannot allow corporations to continue to pollute our air with fossil fuels.

People should have the option to choose their methods of medication; therefore, marijuana should be legalized for medicinal purposes.

The Washington Post reported huge news: “NARAL successfully lobbies Google to take down deceptive pregnancy center ads.” We discovered that if you Googled “abortion clinic,” ads funded by anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) appeared 79 percent of the time. CPCs don’t provide or refer for abortion care, and they shouldn’t trick women into thinking that they do. Google’s leadership in removing the majority of these ads is a victory for truth in advertising. Countless women will be spared lies and shaming tactics intended to stop them from making their own decisions based on real medical advice. It won’t be long before CPCs and their supporters go after Google for making this change because deceptive ads are one of the primary ways they lure women into their doors. That’s why we’re organizing a thank-you letter to show Google executives they did the right thing and encourage them to stand strong against pressure from our opponents.

As a full-time employee at a not-for-profit organization, I am able to make monthly on-time payments on my government loans with the hope that with 120 on-time payments my government loans will be forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Currently my parents are unable to make on-time payments on a Parent PLUS loan they took out for my education. Since Parent PLUS loans are non-transferable, this means that even if I make payments on behalf of my parents for the Parent PLUS loan, the loan, which will be paid by myself entirely, is not be considered eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, since the Parent PLUS loan is underneath my parents' names, and not mine. Graduates who are able to make on-time payments, especially those who have loans that can be considered forgiven, should have the opportunity to transfer the debt from their parent/guardian who signed for the Parent PLUS loan to themselves; that way we can help our loved ones like they helped us in helping with the cost of our education.

We need change. Our government representatives are stale in their ideas and are not listening to the people and making changes to help the United States.

All but 12 of the House Republicans recently voted for Rep. Paul Ryan's federal budget resolution. According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, Rep. Ryan's budget cuts would slow the economy and cost 1.1 million jobs next year -- and 3 million jobs in 2016. This is a federal budget only a billionaire or defense contractor could love. It would cut $137 billion from SNAP (food stamps), $125 billion from Pell Grants, and $16 billion to block grants for Meals on Wheels, homeless shelters, and child care for working-poor families. While Rep. Ryan's budget isn't likely to pass the Senate, we need to show congressional Republicans that we want a budget that creates jobs and opportunities needed to give everyone a fair shot in life. MORE INFORMATION: "By Ignoring Economic Reality, Ryan Budget Would Slow Recovery, Cost Jobs," Economic Policy Institute, April 1, 2014 http://goo.gl/tNExVy "Ryan Plan Gets 69 Percent of Its Budget Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 8, 2014 http://goo.gl/RuW0nQ

On their website, this is what "Union Made" says about what their name means: "The name 'Union Made' was conceived around the notion of well-made and aesthetically classic goods. It also conveys what we are about: collaborating, uniting and making things together. While some of what we sell does come from union shops, that's a happy coincidence. We are interested in well-made American style and aesthetically classic goods, many of which are made in the United States, but we're not affiliated with any unions, other than the unions, civil and otherwise, that tie us all together." They are misrepresenting the strong brand that working men and women have built in America by selling many products that are made in sweat shops and by workers who are paid incredibly low wages and work in terrible, dangerous working conditions. "Union Made," change your name and stop calling yourself a union when you refuse to actually act like one.

Concerned about the Philosophical values based upon agendas of economic and political strategies of thinking based in sustainable systems environmental ecology SURVIVAL IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF ARMAGEDDON April 27 2014 If society in general was for some reason become limited to just ten percent of human population in the entire world, what would be the new survival ability mechanism in place amongst people surviving on minimal substantive needs. Corporate agriculture would become totally inept, hence the existence of supermarkets would become part of a greater ghost town of what use to be urban society or towns. Rural society, such as society goes in interpretation, would be the people who would create small communities that knew how to grow and develop food, hence the agriculturist/horticulturist would become the equivalent metaphorical corporate CEO of present day wall street culture – anyone who knew how to plant food, cultivate live stock, build a house, or practice some basic holistic medicine would be the new powers of the day in an environment of Armageddon circumstances and social environment. Society in the United States of America would retrogress to eighteenth and nineteenth century social organization, with very little contemporary assets that humans are presently use to having. Working just to survive daily would become a daily necessity, hence communal living amongst human beings would be an asset to human survival, for survival sake. The quality of life would have a double contradiction indivisibly – though the quality of life would fall, hence life expectancy. But the quality of life in some aspects would greatly improve, and that would be humankind’s ability to ascertain what is practical and absolutely needed as a contributing factor to the human comminutes survival – for this reason, ideas in education for the young would take on a completely different syllabus scenario. Culture would take on a whole new eclectic perspective in comparison to the existing twenty-first century digital culture of self-centered covetish gluttony for the sake of pointless ownership and hoarding. Religion or philosophy or both, would take on perspectives largely centered on the values of sustainable systems environmental ecology (ecomerritt.org) due to extremely limited labor power (extreme depletion of population demographics), and demands made of existing human population demographics to participate in agricultural and animal husbandry practices. City’s could very easily become wastelands of a time that use to exist, but exercise very little precedence in the culture of Armageddon due to extreme human population demographic retrogression in consensus observation and accounting. The cause of an the Armageddon would be entirely pointless to account for in an existing subsistent population of humans under the survival terms of the existing Armageddon, because it would not change the existing terms of subsistent survival, which are immediate and stat in an existing Armageddon community in the survival of the fittest (Survival of the fittest, WebPage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest, and Charles Darwin, WebPage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin). If any humans survive after a Armageddon occurrence they will no doubt retrogress into new perspectives of Darwinian Tribal Observations largely talked about in anthropology and tribal existence, which is a primary instinct of human natures success as an evolutionary tool of survival – great emphasis on the etymology of ‘Tool of survival in natural evolution’. I am avoiding creating a litany of the causes of Armageddon, which are not only based in wrong decisions made on the basis of conservation practices amongst human beings as a contemporary culture (‘The Assault On Reason’, by Al Gore, ISBN: 978-1-59420-122-6), I am more concerned over creating causes for an effect in preparation for the Armageddon that could manifest after the activities described in Al Gores Book ‘The Assault of Reason’. How many of us living in uban culture know how to plant a crop of vegetables in the summer, in preparation for winter nutritional consumption – very few of us, we are dependent on food programs or supermarkets, hence corporate food exchanges. How many of us in urban life and living, know how to perserve a forest area for vitally needed lumber/wood or medicinal herbs? How many of us know how to make cloths, or create a make shift hospital environment for those who need immediate medical primary care. How many of us living in urban culture know the value of caring for an orchard for fresh fruits, vital to essential health. In truth, when it come so basic needs of survival techniques, urban population are extremely ignorant in the potential face of any kind of Armageddon. For example, if citizens living in major citys in California where struck by an Armageddon of major earthquakes, most of us are not awhere of the values already set in place of the Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties: smsf-mastergardeners.ucanr.org, which is a source of sustainable systems environmental ecology (ecomerritt.org , and ‘Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources: UC Cooperative Extension/Agricultural Experiment Station: ucanr.edu), that deals with several aspects of sustainable ecology, beside gardening, that could easily address subjects of surviving after an Armageddon Event, that urban society is totally ignorant of as a way and means of survival after an event of Armageddon. I sometime think that urban society, in particular for example, city’s like San Francisco where I live, live in a big dream world total dependent on super markets and an infrastructure that could easily fail if a major Armageddon Event should occur. Very few people in San Francisco know anything about first aid after the event of an earthquake. If San Francisco’s infrastructure should become debilitated, no one knows how to create temporary sanitary...

We applaud the producers of Years of Living Dangerously for tackling the climate crisis head-on, and we hope the show gets the massive viewership it deserves. But it turns out that Arnold Schwarzenegger, a producer and star of the show, is part-owner and a major client of Dimensional Fund Advisors, a money manager with nearly a billion dollars in logging and palm oil companies -- the very same ones that are burning and bulldozing the orangutan-populated forests of Southeast Asia. Take action to tell Schwarzenegger to terminate his ties with deforestation.

When it comes to the future of the global economy, you've been shut out. When American negotiators decide what matters during trade agreements, they consult with big corporations, not the American public. These corporations are using these secret negotiations to make an end run around Congress so that they can ship even more jobs overseas, devastate the environment, drive up health care costs and repeal critical consumer protections on Wall Street. They've shut all of us out of the negotiating room, but that doesn't mean we won’t be heard. Our trade agreements should lift us up, not drag us down in a race to the bottom. Our trade agreements should put high standards for wages and working conditions, environmental and consumer protection first instead of trying to maximize corporate profits and power. Sign this petition today to let your members of Congress know that it's time for 21st century global trade policies that work for everyone.

Every kid deserves an education, we are losing to education it is the number one cause of new jails, and nobody wants to deal with the problem. In a society where no high school diploma equals criminal record (felony), we need to start a felony prevention and awareness program. If we offer our students that are at risk a music opportunity for better school performance and it works who’s complaining? What will it hurt? Several ways to support. See how else you can support us at our website: www.beats4books.org I am a father married twice and putting everything I have into this program. 2000 Instrumental songs and all the time I can. You can hear some instrumentals with no words at: www.reverbnation.com/beats4books. musicopportunity.com have 4 kids two dropped out and ones in prison one is on their way with two more kids at home 14 and 17 daughters and I think the community needs to take matters into their own hands, this is the only solution. If you want to help more you can buy pizza hut online in Portland or Boise from pizzahut.com and the corporation will donate 20% to help our program get a building for the summer. To find a location near you go to www.pizzahut.com or Post up a flyer in your lunch room. We need businesses to let us do a fundraiser at your place of business. We will work for it. I will have the youth help promote the events too, we can sell your products, post flyers for your company, make commercials or clean up because we need a building plus it will show the governor that people do support our program.

Donald Sterling was caught on tape telling his girlfriend to refrain from inviting Black People to LA Clippers games. This is not the first time Sterling has been caught out on racist rants, even taking on Magic Johnson is a recent tirade. Not only are his comments patently offensive, in a league where perhaps more than half of the players are black and most of the big stars are, the comments are moronically stupid. Join me in boycotting anything "Clipper"-Games, TV broadcasts, merchandise or even media stories that do anything other than excoriate Donald for his childish and idiotic behavior. Let us keep the boycott up until Sterling is stripped of the franchise and given rock-bottom dollar for it from the league. Racism has no place in professional sports!