Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com

>> Santa Monica to consider plastic bag ban AND paper bag tax. If the Santa Monica city council takes its staff recommendations, both plastic AND plastic-like biodegradable bags will be banned, as will non-recycled paper bags. Paper bags with more than 40 percent or more post-consumer content would be allowed — but you’d have to pay a tax for them.

>> L.A. ready to build green(er). Los Angeles looks ready to adopt a green building ordinance! Yesterday, two city council committees voted to require that large developments meet basic LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.

>> Green clothes: How green is my bamboo T-shirt?. Wax lyrical about bamboo clothes in front of some environmentalists — especially those in the organic cotton or hemp clothing business — and they might try to burst your bamboo bubble, arguing that bamboo isn’t a green fabric. What gives?

And a couple linky posts:

>> A.M. Greenlist: Water films, labels, and other watery news.

>> A.M. Greenlist: Putting climate change in textbooks

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