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deadline: 2-11-2010
goal: 5,000

Say No to Urban Sprawl

Target: President Barack Obama
Sponsored by: Care2

In a recent town hall forum, President Obama said, "The days where we're just building sprawl forever, those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats, everybody recognizes that that's not a smart way to build communities. So we should be using this money to help spur this kind of innovative thinking when it comes to transportation. That will make a big difference."

We need to be smart about our infrastructure and development plans. Urban sprawl not only increases pollution and reliance on fossil fuel through production and transportation, but it also often infringes on areas of dense wildlife and natural land, often for the purpose of housing only small amounts of people.

Smart solutions include mixed-use developments and transit-oriented developments. These decrease traffic, increase the use of public transportation and even reduce obesity rates. They also use land more efficiently, which helps keep natural lands and wildlife intact.

Sign this petition today to voice your support for reducing sprawl and updating development projects to be better for the environment and ourselves.

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We signed “Say No to Urban Sprawl”!

# 4,860:

1:25 pm PST, Feb 9, Joi Johnson, Illinois

# 4,859:

10:56 am PST, Feb 9, Luanne Serrato, Illinois

# 4,858:

9:30 am PST, Feb 9, Kelly Arellanes, Arkansas

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9:29 am PST, Feb 9, Barbara Chally, Missouri

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8:13 am PST, Feb 9, Susan Webb, Maryland

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4:16 am PST, Feb 9, Susan Darragh, New Jersey
good for you obama so folks have you ever heard the recent president bush or his father or other presidents concerned about this despite the so called drop in popularity of obama he is one of the most heart felt presidents we have had in some time...and again i would not want to be in his shoes so folks dont be so quick to judge

# 4,854:

1:08 pm PST, Feb 8, KJ Herson, Florida

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6:57 am PST, Feb 8, Julie Goldman, Missouri

# 4,852:

3:07 pm PST, Feb 7, Deanna Rosen, Utah

# 4,851:

1:21 pm PST, Feb 7, Advo Schaefer, Arizona
Small farms and communites are more effevtive in controlling our environmental impact. Planned high rises and open spaces provide less impact and negative green house gasses.

# 4,850:

10:24 am PST, Feb 7, Joan and Paul Armer, California

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2:59 pm PST, Feb 6, Anna Burgess, Washington

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1:56 pm PST, Feb 6, Eddie Floyd II, Michigan

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1:23 pm PST, Feb 6, Madeline Baxter, Arkansas

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11:56 am PST, Feb 6, Scott Barlow, California

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11:27 am PST, Feb 6, Staci Galvin, West Virginia

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11:26 am PST, Feb 6, Joyce Duarte, Florida

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10:33 am PST, Feb 6, Anna Stone, Oregon

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10:33 am PST, Feb 6, Maureen Cohen, California

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10:25 am PST, Feb 6, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 4,840:

7:44 pm PST, Feb 5, Kathy And Judy Sutter, Florida
Let's get some FUNDS for fixing dams,roads,bridges,& highspeed rail; get a grip on the population, leave some wild places, leave the trees, & protect the animals.

# 4,839:

7:18 pm PST, Feb 4, Douglas Morris, Oklahoma

# 4,838:

5:45 pm PST, Feb 4, Shauneen Kolesarek, Nevada

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10:27 pm PST, Feb 3, Sylvia Stewart, California

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7:55 am PST, Feb 3, Sara Milner, Massachusetts

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6:25 am PST, Feb 2, Suzanne Gillis, Massachusetts

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2:45 am PST, Feb 2, Janice Bernath, New York
Urban sprawl is beyond bad! It was bad in the late 1960s! And now people wonder why wildlife wanders into their yards (formerly belonging to the wildlife), and wants the wildlife "controlled" - we all know what that means. And others want to know why we still have to pay tolls on roads - don't they know use of the roads, especially by heavy vehicles (read TRUCKS - but that's another issue involving the decline of the railroads since the 1950s), causes damage and requires upkeep?? Sometimes I just can't believe people don't understand these simple principles!

# 4,833:

11:12 pm PST, Feb 1, Pam Boland, Georgia

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10:09 pm PST, Feb 1, Jackie Godbout, Virginia

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5:21 pm PST, Feb 1, Alexandra Lotsch, New York

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8:09 am PST, Feb 1, Ashley Keeler, Pennsylvania

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4:53 am PST, Feb 1, Brandon Evans, North Dakota

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1:49 am PST, Feb 1, Alicia Nuszloch, Nevada

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7:57 pm PST, Jan 31, Deborah Outman, Georgia

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6:04 pm PST, Jan 31, Melba Sirna, Florida

# 4,825:

4:52 pm PST, Jan 31, Marvin Brickner, New Jersey

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3:42 pm PST, Jan 31, David Motz, Indiana

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12:13 pm PST, Jan 31, Kat Bain, New York

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11:57 am PST, Jan 31, Robert New, Vermont

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11:17 am PST, Jan 31, Name not displayed, Florida

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10:19 am PST, Jan 31, Nicholas Feda, Illinois

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4:27 pm PST, Jan 30, Desiree Mills, Illinois

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11:10 am PST, Jan 30, Name not displayed, New Jersey

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9:49 am PST, Jan 30, Amanda Benson, Iowa

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12:18 pm PST, Jan 29, Shelley Frazier, North Carolina

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10:13 am PST, Jan 29, James Mckinney Jr, Texas

# 4,814:

8:48 am PST, Jan 29, Vicki Anderson, Minnesota

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9:22 pm PST, Jan 28, Robert Bonfante, Maryland

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9:15 pm PST, Jan 28, Grace Marie, Puerto Rico

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11:40 am PST, Jan 28, Yanula Pengenika, Florida

# 4,810:

7:25 pm PST, Jan 27, Joanne Cannon, United Kingdom

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1:22 pm PST, Jan 26, Ali Odabash, New York

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6:52 am PST, Jan 26, Deb Kobres, Florida

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12:36 pm PST, Jan 25, Name not displayed, California

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11:15 am PST, Jan 25, Ana Herrera, California

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7:07 am PST, Jan 25, Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania

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5:50 pm PST, Jan 24, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 4,803:

8:12 am PST, Jan 24, Mathias Rodriguez, New York

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6:29 pm PST, Jan 23, Angelina Joseph, Texas

# 4,801:

5:58 pm PST, Jan 23, Michelle Bafik-vehslage, Texas
I live where ubran sprawl has become such a problem that it takes 45mins just to cross town. This definetly needs to be addressed.

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