Now, more than ever, is the opportunity to build a healthier and more resilient future; it’s a critical time to find safe ways to gather in community, discuss solutions, and take action to stop (and even reverse) our climate crisis. The participation of groups to which you belong is encouraged - You and your group …
This webinar will focus on mobility broadly defined. It will include experts on electric vehicles, public transit in the age of COVID, micromobility, and the policies that will transform the transportation sector. Presenters include: Assembly member Phil Ting; Rebecca Fisher, Bay Area Air Quality Management District; and Dr. Joseph K. Lyou, Coalition for Clean Air. …
The Climate Center’s Clean Mobility – Driving to 2030 with Speed and Equity Read More »
Water Wise Native Plants Wednesday, April 28 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Provided in partnership with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Register via Zoom here.
The Center for Biological Diversity is teaming up with staff from Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park to present the documentary, Our Gorongosa. In the film a young Mozambican elephant ecologist shares the inspiring story of how the park is becoming a new model for wildlife conservation and community development in Africa, with a special focus on educating …
How do we move toward using more clean energy sources like solar, while also ensuring it benefits people and communities, not monopoly utilities? This question is addressed in "A Nation in Transition", the second film in the Current Revolution Series. This film focuses on the closure of the Navajo Generating Station — the West’s largest coal-fired …
Screening of “Current Revolution: A Nation in Transition” Read More »
Save the date--May 1. Time to be determined soon. For the last few months the many groups that comprise the Central Coast Climate Justice Network have been hosting house meetings to envision what a Green New Deal (GND) could look like in our region. On May Day there will be a kick-off of the next …
Santa Barbara Green New Deal – Junta Grande/Big Meeting Read More »
If your film plastic waste is: Clean: no dirt, food, chemicals, grease. moisture. Quiet: no noise when you crinkle it up. Stretchy: You can easily stretch it and it doesn’t tear straight bring it to Ablitt's Fine Cleaners at 14 W Gutierrez St. Santa Barbara's Community Film Plastic Recycling program (Planet Protectors) is Santa Barbara's only film plastic …
If your film plastic waste is: Clean: no dirt, food, chemicals, grease. moisture. Quiet: no noise when you crinkle it up. Stretchy: You can easily stretch it and it doesn’t tear straight bring it to Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners at 14 W Gutierrez St. Santa Barbara’s Community Film Plastic Recycling program (Planet Protectors) is Santa Barbara’s only film plastic …
Sunrise - Santa Barbara is organizing an action on Friday, May 7th, in conjunction with Stop the Money Pipeline activists around the country. Line 3 is being built through Indigenous territory without consent. The Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe are all suing to stop the pipeline. Prominent …
#DefundLine3 – Global Day of Action in Santa Barbara Read More »
If your film plastic waste is: Clean: no dirt, food, chemicals, grease. moisture. Quiet: no noise when you crinkle it up. Stretchy: You can easily stretch it and it doesn’t tear straight bring it to Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners at 14 W Gutierrez St. Santa Barbara’s Community Film Plastic Recycling program (Planet Protectors) is Santa Barbara’s only film plastic …
At this Saturday's zoom meeting, the data gathered in the Green New Deal "house meetings" conducted over the last several months will be discussed. The organizers are seeking additional input and the meeting is open to anyone interested in promoting a Green New Deal for Santa Barbara County - Learn more about the Central Coast Green New Deal …
Dr. Carrie N. Baker, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Smith College and Contributing Editor for Ms. Magazine, will join online participants in a vital and timely conversation, "ERA: Now?" Dr. Baker’s primary areas of research are women’s legal history, gender and public policy, and feminist activism. Her many publications include: "The Women’s Movement …
Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee Virtual “Friendraiser” and Conversation Read More »
Get ready to change the way we do everything (and we can.) Hosted by YES! executive editor Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, and moderated by Breanna Draxler, YES! environmental editor, this event will feature writers and activists from their new summer issue on “Solving Plastic.” We’ll explore the diverse ways communities are fighting the petrochemical industry responsible for …
Fifth webinar of The Climate Center's Climate-Safe California Webinar Series. Reducing the carbon that we are putting into the atmosphere is not enough to secure a climate-safe future for all. We must also draw down and sequester hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon. This webinar will cover natural techniques for carbon sequestration through …
Natural Sequestration – The Key to Solving our Climate Crisis Read More »
Grab your cup of coffee and join Assemblymember Bennett for a VIRTUAL conversation where he will be sharing updates on his legislation, state budget, and more. This will be an opportunity to discuss local matters and ask your questions regarding state issues. This event will be hosted through Zoom. You can also dial-in. Link and …
Coffee and Conversation with Assemblymember Steve Bennett Read More »
This month's Fearless Grandmothers meeting will be held IN PERSON! It appears our members' comfort levels are at the point where meeting in an outdoor space is feasible and will be welcomed. We'll have an opportunity to reconnect with each other after more than a year of zoom meetings. It's been a long time coming! …
Monthly Meeting – Society of Fearless Grandmothers Read More »
Fearless Grandmothers are rallying on upper State St. at noon on Friday, June 4. We will be telling banks to stop funding pipelines. Sunrise Movement Santa Barbara and 350 Santa Barbara are joining the action.
On World Environment Day, join us, @Pathway2Paris @UNEP for a special online concert all about how we can move forward to restore our communities, our ecosystems, and our climate. Tune in June 4th.
