What is a Green Amendment?
Green Amendments are self executing provisions added to the bill of rights section of a constitution that recognize and protect the rights of all people, including future generations, to pure water, clean air, a stable climate, and healthy environments.
What’s happening in Nebraska?
A group is forming to educate and engage communities around the idea of a Nebraska Green Amendment. The Green Amendment language the leadership team has been working to develop currently reads:
Article I, Section 31 to the Nebraska state Constitution. Protecting Natural Resources.
All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment, including pure water, clean air, healthy soils, balanced ecosystems, a safe climate, diverse and abundant native flora and fauna, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic, recreational, and healthful qualities of the environment. The state shall take no action that would infringe upon these rights. The state shall protect these rights equitably for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, socioeconomics, gender or geography. The state, including each branch, agency, and political subdivision, shall serve as trustee of the natural resources of Nebraska and shall conserve, protect and maintain these resources for the benefit of all the people, including present and future generations. The rights stated in this section are inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible and are among those rights reserved to the people and are on par with other protected fundamental rights. The rights and obligations in this provision are self-executing.
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The Green Amendments Action Platform
The Green Amendments Action Platform is another great space to join a closed community of Green Amendment activists to talk about the movement, learn from others, learn what is going on, share your ideas, and to ask your questions and get them answered. You can join this online platform via your computer by signing up at this link. Or you can download the Action Platform as an app to your phone by going to the app store and searching for Green Amendments FTG.
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