• Amazon - please stop using plastic bubble wrap envelopes
    We are all becoming more aware of the devastating impact of single use plastic. The increasing (or any) use of this for posting Amazon products has a massive impact given how many parcels they send on a daily basis. This seems to be a huge step backwards at a time when we need to focus on finding sustainable ways to move forward.
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    Created by Stephanie Wheeler
  • Zero Emission 100% Electric Cars
    Fact: The gas fueled, internal combustion cars typically driven by Europeans have deteriorated our environment. Think About It: Global warming can be halted with the zero emission 100% Electric Vehicles (EVs) that are made with NiMH batteries whose use is currently being suppressed by Chevron Oil Corporation. Fact: GM has been given $50Billion worth of our tax payer bail out money. Think About It: In 1996, GM had the car of the century, the EV1. The EV1 ran due to the NiMH battery patents acquired by Chevron Oil Corporation. GM crushed ALL OF THEIR CARS shortly thereafter. Why are our tax dollars paying to bail out our automotive industry when our same tax dollars paid for the invention of the NiMH batteries? Fact: In 2005 alone Chevron grossed over $125 Billion (Up 35% from 2004). Think About It: “?” Think About It: The NiMH battery technology is proven with the past ten years of high performance of Toyota RAV 4 EVs made with NiMH batteries. Why waste more of our tax dollar money on technology we already have? Wouldn’t that money be better spent on our ailing health care system? Think About It: The government has exercised Eminent Domain and /or Compulsory Licensing during much less desperate times and for purposes serving much less of the greater good. Yes, it comes at a price, but the amount paid to Chevron would be much less than ongoing cost of Reign of Big Oil. Think About It: What was this war all about? Why are our soldiers dying to preserve Iraqi Oil Fields when we have the battery patents to an emission free, alternative energy technology RIGHT NOW!
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    Created by Digriz Digriz
  • inflight carbon-offset announcements
    This is of existential importance because we are experiencing a climate crisis, to which airlines contribute on a massive scale. Countless people who fly are unaware of offset programs. This is one small way of fighting global warming, which can be instituted immediately, without cost to airlines.
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    Created by Dennis Wardleworth
  • Stop selling faux/artificial plastic plants
    There seems to be a fashion now for fake plants, particularly succulents at the moment and unfortunatley these are made of plastic. In this time of climate crisis and when we are drowning in the sea of plastic already on this planet, why on earth are retail outlets including many of the major supermarkets, making/selling more, for something so frivolous and when plants can so easily be grown, maintained and seeds bought cheaply. Not to mention how real house plants improve our oxygen, health and wellbeing. Let's stop this insanity now.
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    Created by Jemma Thompson
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    Created by Peter Barrow
  • STOP Using plastic packaging on food products
    This is as everyone knows vitally important for the future of the world and the young generation.
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    Created by pat budd
  • Stand up for Dandelions - 'Wild Flowers Not Weeds'
    The wild flower - the Dandelion is a beneficial plant to humans, every part of which can be consumed and in some countries it is cultivated for these purposes. It is also a first source of food for bees in the spring. The advertising of the dandelion as a weed means that people are ill informed about the benefits and beauty of this plant and more bees die as a result. People should be encouraged to use other more natural means to remove dandelions or learn to appreciate them and let them be! For the sake of the Bees and the earth altogether.
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    Created by Karen Baldry
  • Croydon Pollinator Project
    I have tried emailing Croydon Council, contacting MP's and even have met with one to submit a proposal to back my idea, only to hear nothing back despite multiple emails. So, this is all I have left aside from going vigilante by planting wildflowers everywhere. Pollinators are dying across the globe; we need them for our food and they are vital for the ecosystem. The journal 'Nature Communications' believes that the largest factor driving this is loss of habitats and shrinking ranges. I have personally been informed multiple times by Croydon Council that 'Croydon has over 120 parks which provide a wide rich mixture of plants for bees and butterflies.' This, however, is not enough as many of these parks do not contain wildflowers and are mowed so regularly, that more common wildflowers (like dandelions) cannot grow and thus pollinators, like bees, cannot feed. As global warming is changing traditional weather patterns, many butterflies, like the marbled white, are emerging too early to feed on their preferred food source; thus many are starving and are not able to mate. So, while planting broad ranging wildflowers that open in the summer months, we must also consider growing wildflowers that open earlier in spring and last late into autumn in order to sustain them throughout the unpredictable weather. No food for pollinators means no food for humans. It is simple really; planting more wildflowers will cut down on maintenance costs and help the environment. The wiping out of pollinators marks a serious environmental problem which we need to turn around. Unused areas of green space around Croydon can be turned into miniature meadows which will help reverse it and will also be strikingly beautiful. This impacts all of us and it needs to be taken seriously. We need 1,000 signatures for this to be discussed by the council, so let's get there! Thank you.
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    Created by Lizzie O'Brien
  • Stop expansion of aviation until carbon emissions are zero
    Edinburgh Airport recently submitted a new attempt to more than double the number of flights per hour by changing the airspace rules aircraft depart and arrive under. https://airspacechange.caa.co.uk/PublicProposalArea?pID=163 This is detrimental to the local environment in other ways too. With no limits on night flights, local residents may find themselves woken early or suffering sleep disturbance. The scientific evidence is now beyond challenge. Burning fossil fuels is causing a rise in global temperatures which threatens the survival of many species, and many humans as well. Edinburgh's proposal would take their peak departure rate from about 20 per hour, to about 50, representing 6,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission per departure hour. Assuming 12 hours equivalent per day that's 26 million tonnes of emissions per year from increased flights from Edinburgh. At a time when the world has realised we must take dramatic action to reduce carbon emissions to zero as quickly as possible, airport expansion is the wrong thing to do. Lack of sleep has been shown to speed up aging and cause psychiatric and physical illnesses. (See Martin Walker, amongst others.)
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    Created by John Thomas
  • Reduce Plastic Bag Usage
    How many times have you forgot your carrier bags when out shopping and had to buy more adding to the loads you already have at home ? People hoard carrier bags because they are afraid to throw them away because they care what happens to them afterwards . This would enable people to take their excess bags to the supermarket to be re-used by forgetful customers. Bags would be used again and again and would completely eliminate sales of new bags , lets face it there's enough in circulation to last years we just aren't managing it properly.
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    Created by Stephen Smith
  • Picnics not BBQs
    In recent days fires have been raging on the surrounding moors damaging the sensitive ecology , using up valuable resources, threatening peoples' property, quality of life and livelihoods. Suggestions have been made that some of these have been started by the misuse of disposable BBQs. I would like to see more local authority endorsed encouragement given to locals and visitors to instead take a picnic (and responsibly removing their own litter) whilst simultaneously educating them about the fire risk posed by even sensible use of disposable BBQs near the moors.
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    Created by Vicky Lomas
  • 'Palm Oil Free'
    The use of palm oil as an ingredient is one of the biggest causes of deforestation. Deforestation is one of the biggest preventable causes of climate change. Signs on packaging will allow people to make an informed choice. Changing consumer habits will reduce palm oil use and market forces will do the rest. Rain forests and orangutan habitats will be saved and felled trees can be replanted.
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    Created by Mary Green