Welcome to the City’s new Going Green website highlighting all things “green” your local government is doing to make Manhattan Beach the most environmentally responsible city it can be.

Manhattan Beach has a long history of environmental sensitivity and activism, as a community and as a city government. In the coming months and years we will be taking these efforts to new levels as the City Council has made sustainability a priority goal. Over half of this year’s City Council work plan relates to green issues, and there will be plenty of opportunity for our local businesses and residents to be involved in taking action to protect our environment.

The first step in developing an environmental plan for the City was the development of the Working Toward A Greater, Greener Manhattan Beach report. This report documents the City's current environmentally friendly practices and identifies other best management practices that the City can consider adopting to enhance our environmental programs.

Two important actions taken as a result of this report are the hiring of a new Environmental Programs Manager to coordinate our green policies, and the creation of a community Environmental Task Force to analyze priority environmental issues and make recommendations to City Council.

Please bookmark this page and come back often as we will be updating it with the newest environmental news and actions we are taking to green the City.

**Visit the Environmental Speaker Series web page to view a video presentation on a forward-thinking "green" idea known as the Precautionary Principle.**