Andpic fail for Erin Brockovich, the environmentalist icon: the woman was fined for watering her garden three times a week in Los Angeles, when in California, due to drought, only one is allowed.
Even the best are wrong
This time, in fact, she made the mistake, as reported by the New York Times, by not respecting the rules that require watering the garden only once a week and ending up being fined a total of $ 1,700.
Synthetic gardens to waste less water
But if it is important to fix mistakes once made, Erin Brockovich has managed to find a solution in order not to pollute her resume. He removed the real grass and created a hi-tech artificial garden.
An example that has been followed by many other nearby villas and has become, in the last year, a real trend. There were 300 homeowners who decided to leave the green lawn in front of the housetraditional symbol of American families, to replace it with fake cacti and synthetic carpets.
A good solution that deserves the same attention. In fact, although it does not need water, synthetic grass, when it is replaced it becomes waste to be disposed of like plastictransforming equally in an environmental problem of no small importance.
The environmental icon made a mistake and launched a trend to remedy it
Erin Brockovic, the environmentalist who forgets the environment
Brockovich is known for filing and winning the biggest environmental legal battle of history. The one in ’93 against Pacific Gas & Electric. The woman had accused the colossus of having contaminated the waters with chromium for thirty years of the city of Hinkley, California, causing numerous cancers in the inhabitants.
The eco-icon that wins against the giants
But it is known, above all, for the victory of the cause, ended with the conviction of the energy giant forced to compensate a total of 333 million dollars.
Since then, the ecologist has never stopped. You founded the Brockovich Research & Consultingengaged in projects around the world, has written a book that has become a bestseller, and her story has become a film in which she is played by a very good Julia Roberts.
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