A few weeks back I thought I’d hit a lottery: the local paper was filled with news of eco-friendly projects despite the state of the economy. This week an article mentioned that the Pennsylvania state consitution was amended in 1971 to say

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of natural, scenic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustees of these resources the commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people.

Yet over and over again profit of a few stands against these constitutional rights. Read the rest of this entry »