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Article: Global Rights of Children Petition - Please sign

what's more important than the right of children?

frankpatton
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Pull Coke's corporate charter!

"Coca-Cola argues that there is not a scientific link between obesity and sugary... more

Cabal
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Pointing out the glaringly obvious to the USDA

The USDA is testing a program that lets poultry companies inspect their own... more

Cabal
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Senators drop support of piracy bill after protests - The Washington Post

By Hayley Tsukayama and Sarah Halzack, Thursday, January 19, 2:54 AM Support for... more

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The Faux Occupy Madison Site is Dead. It Did Not Die Quietly.

It wasn’t an easy death. It seemed quite painful, in fact. There was a lot of... more

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What Does Facebook CARE About?

Well, we've demonstrated they don't care about their users. They don't... more

MrTattletale
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Can a Lepperd Change Its Spots? And All the Other Turds in the Huge Poop Pile.

Can I borrow some sanitizer?... more

MrTattletale
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Well, I tried to be nice about it...

Some people you just can't be nice to!... more

MrTattletale
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Meeting the "people who post": William Jenkins? KUSD wonders who you are!

Why would someone say he works for a specific organization when it's so easy to... more

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Withdraw Support from Renegade Democrats

A group of activists from red-state Oklahoma are petitioning the Democratic... more

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12 year old up on Murder; charged as adult. Mother let hours pass before taking younger child to ER

Why this is Important Cristian Fernandez is a juvenile and should be treated as... more

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More Aid Fewer Guns

Petition from the School of the America Watch for the UN to abandon its military... more

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Support vietnamese Worker Activists

Online petition to Vietnamese authorities to drop charges against workers charged with... more

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Food Agenda 2020: A National Petition on Agricultural Solutions for Climate Change and Health

To stabilize our already chaotic climate and to avoid catastrophic global warming of 2-7 degrees centigrade or more, we must reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) pollution from our current unsustainable global level of 389 parts CO2 per million to 350 ppm or below. Otherwise, we face massive crop failures, starvation, water shortages, pestilence, and unending wars for dwindling natural resources. In practical terms, this means reducing current fossil fuel use (especially in the food, transport, housing, military, and utilities sectors) by 90% by 2050; while sequestering or storing as much CO2 as possible in the soil through organic soil management and reforestation.

By the year 2020, the U.S. needs to generate at least 25% of its energy from solar, wind, and other renewable sources (currently at 6%, while Denmark is at 20%). By 2020, 25% of our food needs to be certified organic (currently it is 4%), while drastically reducing the most-devastating greenhouse gases spewed out by industrial food and farming, methane and nitrous oxide. Only 1% of the U.S.'s 435 million acres of cultivated farmland are currently certified organic. In addition to drastically reducing fossil fuel energy use and slashing GHG emissions, each acre of farm, pasture, or range land brought under organic cultivation or management can safely sequester or store the equivalent of 7,000 pounds of climate-destabilizing CO2 per year. If all of U.S. farmland (not to mention pasture) were managed organically, we would be able to sequester almost 25% of all current GHG emissions, while significantly reducing fossil fuel use.

Given the fact that the direct (CO2, nitrous oxide, and methane) and indirect (deforestation, draining of wetlands) greenhouse gas emissions from factory farms and chemical and energy-intensive industrial agriculture constitute the majority of greenhouse gases, we call on U.S. elected officials, political candidates, and regulatory agencies to support and implement the following three public policies:

(1) Implement Truth in Labeling

Give consumers the opportunity to freely choose sustainable, climate-friendly, humane, and healthy products by requiring GMO, pesticide, antibiotic, hormone, CAFO, GHG, and country-of-origin labels on foods and products sold in grocery stores and restaurants. At the same time we must safeguard consumer choice by maintaining strict certification and labeling standards for products which are organic, Fair Trade, or genuinely healthy and sustainable.

(2) Stop Subsidizing Destructive Policies

Stop subsidizing industrial food and farm production, fossil fuels, and resource wars, and instead use these funds to promote and qualitatively fast-track clean energy, a green jobs economy, and organic farming. It is currently estimated that U.S. taxpayer subsidies to the fossil fuel and industrial food and farm sectors amounts to $60 billion a year, while wars for oil and strategic resources in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing us $200 billion annually. The money wasted on wars and industrial agriculture by the U.S. alone is enough to fast-track the conversion of the U.S. and global economy to organic agriculture and clean energy and save the world from climate catastrophe.

(3) Build an Organic and Green Economy

Begin the phase-out of industrial agriculture's most energy, GHG-intensive, and hazardous practices. These practices include the massive over-production of livestock and animal products, Genetically Modified (GM) crops and biofuels, toxic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics, sewage sludge on farm lands, and slaughterhouse waste in animal feed. Ban factory farm CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) and all inhumane confinement of farm animals.To stabilize our already chaotic climate and to avoid catastrophic global warming of... more

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Monsanto RoundUp #6: Fight for your food edition

This is the sixth volume of the Sustainable Agriculture Group's Monsanto Roundup,... more

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Sign BAN THE BAG - Ban the Bag Day September 26th

As we close in on the first Ban the Bag Day September 26th, please support our push to... more

GreenhouseNeutralFoundation
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3 years ago
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Learning about internet petitions - is that effective?

Even well-addressed, well-thought-out petitions have their problems, chief among them... more

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We Don't Need More Dirty Coal!

Target: U.S. Congress Sponsored by: Union of Concerned Scientists Coal-fired power... more

stopnoise
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State Your Support for Health Care reform at www.healthreform.gov..

It will only take about 2 mins and makes a vast difference.... Sign it if you truly... more

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Petition: Protecting our Drinking Water from Toxic Chemicals

and again and again..... when all our natural resources are gone, either used up or... more

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