So when a town taxes residents, sets up a fire department or just orders fertilizer for the green, municipalities tend to go it alone.
Due to obstruction by Congress, however, DC still doesn't have a system to regulate and tax the sale of the drug, meaning that while it's now technically legal for adults to toke in the nation's capital, the city is missing out on the tax windfall that other green municipalities are enjoying.
We're one of the greenest municipalities in the US--even if we've got plenty of commonsense, money-saving room for improvement.
The women now wear uniformed green saris and the municipality has provided protective gear as well as rolling bins and sometimes even motorized carts to make their work easier.
Until the commercial market corrects itself, municipalities and states should suspend unfunded mandates that require large capital outlays by building owners that are not safety related (e.g., this is not the time to demand that buildings comply with new "green" standards) unless the municipality provides an economic benefit (i.e., tax abatements) to the property owner.
The "green" initiatives vary between municipalities.
The comments received through the evaluation demonstrated that the design guidelines are an appropriate foundation for the application of phytoremediation as an interim strategy for transforming contaminated lands into usable green space within Canadian municipalities.
In collaboration with residents, community development corporations, municipalities, and green planning and investment experts, our partnerships help empower neighbors to restore and revitalize their own communities.
This research aims to analyze the driving forces of urbanization, agricultural intensification, and greening in five municipalities of the periurban Limmat Valley, near Zurich, Switzerland.
Muftuoglu Gulec, a green building expert for the municipality, said: "When you plan such environment-friendly systems, you take a look at natural resources you have.
