06 Feb '12, 10pm

Santa Monica now has a sustainability bill of rights!

Santa Monica now has a sustainability bill of rights!

The Bill of Rights, among other things, gives individuals more green rights — including the right to sue in the name of nature, the right to clean potable water, energy, soil, air, and the right to sustainable food. Applaudable goals, but are they feasible? We’ll have to wait until early fall to find out how they plan to pull it off. Fall is when the city anticipates announcing provisions and policy changes to the current Sustainable City Plan. Financial impacts have yet to be defined. It’s likely that implementing such goals will come at a cost.

Full article: http://greenlagirl.com/santa-monicas-new-sustainability-b...

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