The Grass Isn't Always Greener
With California in a drought, Anne Hartridge and Matt George decided to stop watering their lawn. The Sacramento couple takes environmentalism seriously. They often bike to work, have installed solar panels on their home, and dry their clothes on a clothes line. But a neighbor complained about their brown lawn, and the city cited them with breaking a city law requiring lawns to be "irrigated, landscaped and maintained."
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