Green Spot

California, always the front runner in progressive change in the United States of America, has vowed to reduce emissions and pollution by about a quarter of what is currently exhausted in to the world by the year 2020. To do so, the state government must uphold the necessary laws of nature, such as clean energy solutions, and eco-friendliness, or else. Small businesses that do not comply and do not “go green” may be taxed according to a proposed law that may go in to effect soon in California.

This also means that many small businesses and jobs that they provide to people in the state, may leave. The proposition of higher taxes on top of a nationwide-record sales tax, significant property taxes and more, are too much to bear - it doesn’t seem the environment or state ambition is worth it.

Sooner or later, we all must face the fact that there must be a change to “go green” and reduce waste, clean up our act, and run a cleaner “ship” so to speak. Business expenses and taxes do not have to keep small business owners in the red, and this new law ensures that they are in fact - in the green.

Energy and land use as well as other state taxes seem to be increasing in most of the U.S., and currently, its seen and felt as a bad thing. For years we’ve come to accept energy at a certain price, no matter the end result when it came to waste or peak supply. The time has come though that as a people, we must overcome the expenditures that make us cower when doing business, but understand that the future of our own world depends on us to take action now, go green, and fund development of better technology that can one day help small business reduce overhead and return to sunny and beautiful California.

Is our community's surroundings worth its weight in gold?