The Big Ideas Project

Create a Federal "First In Renewable Energy" 15 year program, with $25B/yr to funding renewable energy research, $25B/yr to funding high-capacity electrical transmission and storage, and $250B/yr. in subsidization of renewable energy installations and grid development, all tied to COLA +5%.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Environment Dec. 16, 2014, 3:10 p.m.

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#1788

58 votes

Like land Bank for Farmers, allow oysterman, and crabbers to collect unemployment for up to two years on an area, so that oysters and crabs in the Chesapeake can replenish

Submitted by karlmarchut in Environment Jan. 15, 2015, 5:44 a.m.

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#1788

58 votes

Educate, encourage, people to spend most of their exercise practices producing clean energy via special equipments such as electricity producing exercise bikes and treadmills instead of wasting this valuable resource. Turn gyms to electric generation stations. Develop such equipment via business innovation grants and loans making this healthy process profitable as well.

Submitted by masso salmassi in Environment Dec. 19, 2014, 4:06 a.m.

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#1841

54 votes

Provide a tax write-off of $1,200 to people who live in apartments, condos, townhouses or single family homes where the space is equal to or less than 500 sft plus 250 sft per person. $2,400 to those whose living space is equal to or less than half that.

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Environment Dec. 16, 2014, 3:03 p.m.

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#1863

52 votes

A way to recycle plastic AND provide clean drinking water through free desalinized sea water all at the same time. This can be done by using plastic water bottles and other clear plastic items, like ice cream buckets that otherwise would've gone into landfills, repurposing them. It costs nothing and the resultant water only needs to be boiled for drinking, just to be completely safe.

Submitted by Bridget Kielas-Fecyk in Environment Dec. 11, 2014, 9:01 p.m.

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#1870

51 votes

Wood-fired generators on converted logging trucks teethered into the electric grid that criss crosses our national forests. Instead of piling and burning piles when manual releasing/thinning forests or cleaning up after logging, you use the slash to create electricity and reduce the cost per acre to clean up the forest. Jobs, cheap energy, safer forests, less fires, lower insurance.

Submitted by John P. from AZ in Environment Jan. 4, 2015, 3:09 p.m.

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#1909

48 votes

Ask the White House to hold an environmental summit with speakers who are established experts in the field. This would not only educate all of us on important environmental issues,including but not restricted to global warming, but it would also establish the United States as the world leader on the environment.

Submitted by Sarah J. Hall, M.A., Ph.D in Environment Jan. 8, 2015, 10:51 p.m.

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#1909

48 votes

A "Green New Deal" to provide jobs and a quick transition to sustainable energy.

Submitted by Karen P. from CA in Environment Jan. 15, 2015, 8:47 p.m.

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#1946

45 votes

Keystone Pipeline Environmental Compromise: Commit $10 billion to renewable energy in the Keystone Pipeline Bill. Require that half the oil be refined and used in the U.S. This is a win-win for energy independence, jobs, and the environment.

Submitted by Dr Billy Kidd in Environment Dec. 30, 2014, 6:15 p.m. 1

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#1946

45 votes

We need a solar powered charger for laptop batteries in our vehicles

Submitted by Joey Stevenson in Environment Dec. 27, 2014, 2:34 p.m.

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#1961

44 votes

Stop government subsidizing of population growth. Limit the tax deduction for child dependents to two. Grandfather current deductions, and make exceptions for adoptions.

Submitted by Dwight R. from WA in Environment Jan. 10, 2015, 4:35 p.m.

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#1964

43 votes

Institute new laws and treaties mandating a 120% carbon offset on all combustible fuels produced or consumed within the United States and Canada, before point of sale. And there would be favored nation trading points for other countries following suite.

Submitted by Aaron Agassi in Environment Dec. 17, 2014, 9:06 p.m.

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#1964

43 votes

Levy significant taxes through vehicle registrations--no less than annually--per vehicle ton to encourage people to use the lightest vehicle for the purpose...

Submitted by Timothy Salt in Environment Dec. 16, 2014, 2:56 p.m.

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#1982

42 votes

With the technology that we have, currently. Meaning that if we can design a space craft capable of going to Mars. Then we can surely design the necessary equipment to harvest water from the oceans, and expand the food production for the planet, now overflowing with almost 8 billion people. We have the technology. We can do this. For our children and our future.

Submitted by Nicole Maschke in Environment Dec. 18, 2014, 11:40 a.m.

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#2000

41 votes

End geoengineering and chemtrails.

Submitted by saiprem in Environment Dec. 19, 2014, 7:34 a.m.

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#2017

40 votes

All citizens must within the next 5 years switch to solar elect. and hybrid vehicles.

Submitted by Deja G. from AR in Environment Dec. 11, 2014, 12:06 p.m.

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#2024

39 votes

When I was a child, Jimmy Carter got us concerving gas and heating oil, recycling and carpooling. It was a ver exciting time and there was such a sense of community participation. What happened to the household word, "conservation"? Lights off when not in use, heat to a reasonable level, drive less, buy only what you need, etc.. I'd like Obama to spearhead a national, inspirational movement to remind every citizen that WE have the power to slow the train down with what we buy how we live.

Submitted by Amy F. from NY in Environment Jan. 9, 2015, 8:25 a.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Producing your own solar electricity could be a new hobby for retired people. They can be low voltage on the ground.

Submitted by steven s. from HI in Environment Jan. 8, 2015, 3:49 p.m.

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#2071

35 votes

Set sustainable targets for our population, and set immigration levels low enough to reach those targets. Our population is ballooning at an unsustainable rate, most of it is driven by excessive immigration, legal and otherwise.

Submitted by Vinced in Environment Jan. 4, 2015, 4:47 p.m.

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#2123

32 votes

Seriously support development and production of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactors).

Submitted by antonio l. from CA in Environment Jan. 4, 2015, 5:15 p.m.

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#2156

29 votes

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