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LTE, NRDC, wolves

E: wolves

danielbarker123/contacts

·         NRDCinfo 

To:danielbarker123@yahoo.com

‎Oct‎ ‎3‎, ‎2008 at ‎11‎:‎04‎ ‎AM

Dear Daniel,  

Thank you for writing to NRDC and for your support. We really appreciate you taking the time to send us your comments on the aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska.  Feedback is very important to us, and we will take this information into consideration as we expand and enhance our programs. Thanks again for writing to NRDC and for your interest in our work. 

Sincerely,
Jennifer Lam
NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:17 PM
To: Audubon Society; Defenders of wildlife; Florida Democratic Party; Florida Sierra Club; Green Party Brent McMillan; Greenpeace; Grist; info@floridapirg.org; Marcia Argust Campaign for America's wilderness; NRDCinfo; rain forest; SLC Weekly; Daniel
Subject: wolves

Dear concerned citizens,     Today our concern about the fate of wolves has spilled over into the political arena for obvious reasons.     As a conservative let me state how I feel about wolves and hunting.  Alaska authorizes subsistence hunting in rural areas in lieu of traveling hundreds of miles by aircraft or snowmobile (or dogs) to buy meat.     I have no objection to a resident hunting for food.  I do object to hunting by aircraft, hunting by snowmobile for sport, preventing Indians from hunting so non-residents can hunt on their land, and other unsportsmanlike actions.    I thank you for bringing to the public's attention any elected official who approves of such behavior. Daniel Barker 6339 Egret Drive Lakeland, FL  33809 863-815-453

LTE, NRDC here we go again

RE: Here we go again

danielbarker123/contacts

·         NRDCinfo 

To:danielbarker123@yahoo.com

‎Oct‎ ‎2‎, ‎2008 at ‎2‎:‎27‎ ‎PM

Dear Daniel,

Thank you so much for emailing NRDC! There are so many ways you can help to fight global warming and save our rainforest. Some of them are less hands-on than others, but they all lead in the right direction. If you’d like to read our basic list of things you can do to help, start by clicking here: http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/gsteps.asp.

Probably the first thing to do is make sure you yourself are not contributing to the problem, by incorporating green living practices into your lifestyle. This page on our site is full of good ideas on green living: http://www.nrdc.org/cities/living/gover.asp. If you’d like even more ideas, check out either of these broad indexes of material: http://www.nrdc.org/greenliving/ or http://www.nrdc.org/cities/living/brief.asp.

Next, make sure to use our online action resources. You can send email, letters, or faxes to government and industry leaders from our Earth Action site. Our BioGems website has information and letters to send regarding 12 imperiled natural treasures throughout the Americas , including the Arctic Refuge. You may also be interested in signing up for Earth Action Alerts. The URLs for these webpages are below:

NRDC Earth Action: http://www.nrdc.org/action/

BioGems: http://www.savebiogems.org/

Subscribe to NRDC action: http://www.nrdcaction.org/subscribe.html

Although NRDC does not endorse any particular dietary lifestyle as a solution to global warming, we do provide studies and recommendations to the public for environmentally sensitive food lifecycles. Following are links to some examples you might be interested in from the NRDC website regarding organic foods, buying locally grown foods, and the dangers of factory farming:

Pollution from Giant Livestock Farms Threatens Public Health: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp

How Green Is Our Valley: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05spr/livgreen.asp

Cesspools of Shame - How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/cesspools/cessinx.asp

Organic Foods 101: http://www.nrdc.org/health/farming/forg101.asp

Our “This Green Life” newsletter has also covered topics related to diet in the following editions:

Down with Meat
http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0603.asp

Poor Henny Penny
http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0507.asp 

Thanks again for contacting NRDC.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Lam
NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:06 PM
To: Audubon Society; Defenders of wildlife; DemocracyNow!; Florida Democratic Party; Florida Sierra Club; global exchange; Green Party Brent McMillan; Greenpeace; Grist; info@floridapirg.org; League of Conservation Voters lcv; Marcia Argust Campaign for America's wilderness; Militant; NRDCinfo; rain forest; SLC Weekly; Socialist; Terrapass; union concerned scientists; Wilderness Society; world cant wait world cant wait; Daniel
Subject: Here we go again

Dear concerned citizen,     The Amazon rain forest is being destroyed again, with all the usual suspects.  What can we do?  We are beginning to realize how everything we do affects the whole.  I thank California for passing SB 375, the first legislation specifically addressed to curb urban sprawl.    People are beginning to eat flexitarian - I have been flexitarian since May 1992.  Eating less meat means less rain forest is destroyed to raise cattle.  It also reduces consumption of petroleum.    And I have made the commitment to family planning - I have no children, and plan on one child and adoption,     The reason population in the United States is increasing rapidly - resulting in more consumption of natural resources - is because our standard of living is much higher than countries south of the border.  My goal is to reduce my consumption of natural resources.     This year I spent fifteen hundred dollars on solar reflective/wind protection panels.  My next goal is to buy solar electric panels to charge my batteries, such as my UPS.    How many of us buy possessions we do not need, cannot afford, and do not make us happy?  I have begun going through my possessions - whatever I don't use, I give away.  I find it amazing what I own and don't even realize.   What can I do to save the rain forest and make this a better planet? Daniel Barker 6339 Egret Drive Lakeland, FL  33809 863-815-4534

LTE, NRDC, vegetarian campaign

RE: vegetarian campaign

danielbarker123/contacts

·         NRDCinfo 

To:danielbarker123@yahoo.com

‎Sep‎ ‎23‎, ‎2008 at ‎9‎:‎53‎ ‎AM

Dear Daniel,  

Thank you for contacting NRDC and for your interest in our work. Comments and suggestions are tremendously important to us, and we really appreciate your taking the time to write. Although NRDC does not endorse any particular dietary lifestyle as a solution to global warming, we do provide studies and recommendations to the public for environmentally sensitive food lifecycles. Following are links to some examples you might be interested in from the NRDC website regarding organic foods, buying locally grown foods, and the dangers of factory farming:

Pollution from Giant Livestock Farms Threatens Public Health: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp

How Green Is Our Valley: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05spr/livgreen.asp

Cesspools of Shame - How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/cesspools/cessinx.asp

Organic Foods 101: http://www.nrdc.org/health/farming/forg101.asp

Our “This Green Life” newsletter has also covered topics related to diet in the following editions:

Down with Meat
http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0603.asp

Poor Henny Penny
http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0507.asp 

Thanks again for contacting NRDC.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Lam
NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:56 PM
To: Amnesty International; Audubon Society; Defenders of wildlife; DemocracyNow!; Democratic Socialists; Florida Democratic Party; Florida Sierra Club; Green Party Brent McMillan; Greenpeace; Grist; info@floridapirg.org; League of Conservation Voters lcv; Marcia Argust Campaign for America's wilderness; Militant; NRDCinfo; rain forest; SLC Weekly; Socialist; Terrapass; The Wilderness Society; union concerned scientists; world cant wait world cant wait; Daniel
Subject: vegetarian campaign

Dear concerned citizen,     I do not need to tell you the consequences of using petroleum.  Climate Change.  Greenhouse gas emissions.  American foreign policy.  What are we doing about it?    When I eat out, I see something on the menu that some people miss because it hides in plain sight.  The menu is meat, meat, meat, almost every dish, three meals a day.    As Al Gore has stated, it takes forty times the fossil fuel to produce a pound of protein from feedlot beef as does soybeans.  Eating vegetarian greatly reduces both our consumption of fossil fuel as well as endowments to the Republican Party.  It would behoove us to end the madness of eating meat!    Therefore I propose a public campaign of vegetarian.  Tell your friends about how what they eat affects the planet.     This is something that does not require any money yet achieves so much.  We can help stop climate change and donating so much money to the Republican regime.    Spread the word - the fate of the planet depends on it. Daniel Barker 6339 Egret Drive Lakeland, FL  33809 863-815-4534

LTE, NRDC, save Canyonands

RE: Save Canyonlands

danielbarker123/contacts

·         NRDCinfo 

To:Daniel Barker

‎Jun‎ ‎10‎, ‎2008 at ‎4‎:‎09‎ ‎PM

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for writing to NRDC and for your support. We really appreciate you taking the time to send us your ideas about cryptogamic soil. Feedback is very important to us, and we will take this information into consideration as we expand and enhance our programs.

Here is some information that NRDC has that you may be interested in:

OnEarth: Don’t Spoil the Soil

http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/03fal/soil1.asp

Thanks again for writing to NRDC and for your interest in our work.

Sincerely,

NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 2:43 PM
To: Audubon Society; Defenders of wildlife; DemocracyNow!; Democratic Socialists; GOP; Green Party Brent McMillan; Greenpeace; Grist; HUMAN EVENTS; info@floridapirg.org; League of Conservation Voters lcv; Marcia Argust Campaign for America's wilderness; Militant; NRDCinfo ; rain forest; Rush Limbaugh; SLC Weekly; Socialist; The Wilderness Society; Daniel
Subject: Save Canyonlands

Dear concerned citizen,

     In its waning days, the Bush administration is moving to lease up to 11 million acres of Utah 's spectacular Red Rock canyon country.

    When I lived in Utah I went with a motorcycle gang to Canyonlands and other parks.  We rode dirt bikes, trucks and sometimes ATVs.

    The national parks have a rule: ,motorized vehicles are allowed only on authortized trails, riverbeds and bare rocks.  Riverbeds and bare rocks have no life.  The desert contains cryptogamic soil, which can take up to a century to discover if tread on. 

     I have a simple policy: make all land in southern Utah with cryptogamic soil off-limits to humans.

   

Daniel Barker

6339 Egret Drive

Lakeland , FL   33809

863-815-4534

LTE, NRDC, S. 3036

RE: S. 3036

danielbarker123/contacts

·         NRDCinfo 

To:Daniel Barker

‎Jun‎ ‎5‎, ‎2008 at ‎11‎:‎08‎ ‎AM

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for writing to NRDC and for your support. We really appreciate you taking the time to send us your ideas.  Feedback is very important to us, and we will take this information into consideration as we expand and enhance our programs. Thanks again for writing to NRDC and for your interest in our work.

Sincerely,

NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:47 PM
To: Audubon Society; Center for American Progress; constitution party; DemocracyNow!; Elizabeth Dole; Florida Democratic Party; global exchange; GOP; Green Party Brent McMillan; Greenpeace; Grist; HUMAN EVENTS; info@floridapirg.org; League of Conservation Voters lcv; Libertarian; Marcia Argust Campaign for America's wilderness; Militant; NRDCinfo; rain forest; Rush Limbaugh; SLC Weekly; Socialist; Terrapass; union concerned scientists; world cant wait world cant wait; Daniel
Subject: S. 3036

Dear concerned citizen,

     I sent the following letter to my senators:

I am writing you about S. 3036 and global warming.  It is obvious America is so successful that if the rest of the world lived as we do, it would take five planets to sustain us.

What steps should we take?

     First, we have to be realistic about growth and development.  More Americans means more consumption of resources.  Also, even in some communities where population has decreased, consumption of petroleum has increased because the communities were designed only for vehicles and not other means of transportation.

     Second, we must learn to limit our impact on the planet.  Many people eat too muuch meat.  How many of us print too much on our computer?
How many of us buy oversized vehicles, appliances and electronics? 

    Third, we have enough wind, solar, geothermal and tidal energy that we have no need for nuclear or fossil energies. 

Daniel Barker

6339 Egret Drive

Lakeland , FL   33809

863-815-4534

LTE, NRDC, the hidden agenda

RE: The hidden agenda

danielbarker123/contacts

·         NRDCinfo 

To:Daniel Barker

‎May‎ ‎23‎, ‎2008 at ‎11‎:‎15‎ ‎AM

Dear Mr. Barker,

Thank you for contacting NRDC.  In order to retain our tax exemption status as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, we must remain non-partisan.  While we can and do speak about specific issues and policies (including advocating for or against particular pieces of legislation), we cannot endorse individual candidates or political parties, nor financially contribute to them. 

If you are interested in information about the environmental voting records of U.S. representatives and senators, you may want to contact the League of Conservation Voters ( http://www.lcv.org/ ).  Their National Environmental Scorecard includes a composite score for overall environmental voting, as well as information about individual votes.

Again, thank you for writing to NRDC and for your interest in our work.

Sincerely,

NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:47 PM
To: Audubon Society; Center for American Progress; Citizens against government waste; constitution party; Defenders of wildlife; DemocracyNow!; Democratic Socialists; factcheck factcheck; Florida Democratic Party; Florida Sierra Club; global exchange; GOP; Green Party Brent McMillan; Greenpeace; Grist; HUMAN EVENTS; info@floridapirg.org; League of Conservation Voters lcv; Libertarian; lori@legitgov.org; Marcia Argust Campaign for America's wilderness; Militant; NRDCinfo; rain forest; Rush Limbaugh; Sierra; SLC Weekly; Terrapass; The Wilderness Society; union concerned scientists; world cant wait world cant wait; World wildlife fund; Daniel
Subject: The hidden agenda

Dear concerned citizen,

     I received notification today that the U.S. Senate will take action within two weeks on the the Climate Security Act.  The letter stated that 'various deep-pocketed climate skeptics and special interests are relying on scare tactics and misinformation campaigns to sway the showdown in their favor, and Big Oil and Big Coal are hell-bent on sabotaging the bill. And climate skeptics are introducing "decoy" global warming bills—like the one recently proposed by Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)—that would allow global warming pollution to increase for decades.'

   If the Congress were free to take action on global warming without climate skeptics, special interests, the coal and oil corporations, what would they do?

   We already know - Congress has already taken action on attempting to solve global warming, and not only has the solution not worked, it is actually contributing to the problem.  I am referring to the 'ethanol solution' - alcohol from corn.  This was supposed to reduce our consumption of petroleum by converting the crop into fuel.

   Instead of reducing our use of petroleum, we are learning that it takes so much fossil fuel to produce the corn and the alcohol yields so little energy that there is essentially no net reduction of fossil fuel.  In addition, due to converting corn to alcohol the price of the crop has doubled, resulting in starvation in Mexico .  In addition, tropical rain forests are being cleared to grow the crop.

    It is obvious we need a sane solution to the energy crises.  I am considering running for office, and am looking for people who want change. 

    I welcome your efforts to work with me.

Thank you,

Daniel Barker

6339 Egret Drive

Lakeland , FL   33809

863-815-4534