UCSB Students Urging City Council to Ban Plastic Bags
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 11:37:44 -0700 | green-news
Students and other environmental groups gathered at Santa Barbara City Hall on Tuesday at 2:00 pm to show support for a local ordinance that would ban single-use plastic bags in Santa Barbara...Nothing that we use for five minutes should pollute...
Carbon Fee and Dividend Before It's Too Late
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 20:19:28 -0700 | green-news
Article Tools Recent news articles about atmospheric carbon dioxide approaching the dire milestone' of 400 parts per million remind us that we are dangerously near a threshold of catastrophic change to the world as we know it. Fire season in...
Air Quality Watch Issued for Santa Barbara County
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-05 13:08:26 -0700 | green-news
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District today issued an Air Quality Watch for Santa Barbara County to be in effect as long as conditions warrant. Smoke from the Springs Fire...
UCSB Plous Lecture Will Explore Challenges of Endangered Species Conservation
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-04 23:03:03 -0700 | green-news
The landmark federal Endangered Species Act the most powerful and comprehensive in United States environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country turns 40 this year...Alagona, assistant professor of history and of environmental studies...
Forest Officials Open Public Roads
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 01:35:01 -0700 | green-news
Forest Officials Open Public Roads Thursday, May 2, 2013 Article Tools Los Padres National Forest officials this week announced the seasonal opening of two popular backcountry roads for public use. The Nordhoff Ridge/Chief Peak Roads network reopened after being closed for...
Pollen Producers
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 12:13:31 -0700 | green-news
Pollen Producers Trees that Make You Sneeze Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Article Tools The earth needs trees. They provide food for untold numbers of avian, mammalian, and insect species. They also make the oxygen that most of these species need to exist....
Can we change the face?
Source: The Hindu
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 05:53:21 -0700 | green-news
AP April 22 was celebrated as Earth Day in countries around the world...On April 22, 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, the U.S., proposed the first Earth Day. It was a time when student protests were the order of the...
Das Williams' Anti-Wildlife Cruelty Bill Moves to Senate
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-27 11:13:01 -0700 | green-news
California Assemblyman Das Williams' Assembly Bill 789, which would regulate cruel practices used by the nuisance wildlife trapping industry, received overwhelming support from the Assembly and now moves to the Senate for a vote. The Assembly voted 76-0-3 to support...
Shellfish Company supports Heal the Ocean
Source: Presidio Sports
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 11:16:01 -0700 | green-news
Heal the Ocean (HTO) is Santa Barbara's well-known citizens's action group with the goal of finding the sources of ocean pollution, then devising the means to fix those sources. The primary focus is on wastewater infrastructure removing septic systems from...
'Grease to Gas' Facility Now Online
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 15:13:16 -0700 | green-news
Grease to Gas' Facility Now Online Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Article Tools With grease collected by MarBorg Industries from area restaurants, the new Fats, Oils and Grease ( FOG ) and Cogeneration facilities at the El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant will...
Nearly 36,000 Attend Earth Day
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 15:13:13 -0700 | green-news
Nearly 36,000 Attend Earth Day Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Article Tools The 2013 Earth Day festival attracted 35,894 visitors last weekend. Of those visitors, over 2,000 arrived via bicycle, estimated the Community Environmental Council, which organized the event.
Community Environmental Council's 2013 Earth Day Festival Attended by 35,894 People
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 18:28:58 -0700 | green-news
Community Environmental Council's ( CEC ) 2013 Earth Day Festival, this past Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21, in Alameda Park. Volunteer crowd counters at the festival's six entry points, tracked attendance for both days of the event. This year's...
Summit highlights Santa Barbara County's energy sector
Source: Santa Maria Sun
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 01:00:14 -0700 | green-news
The California Energy Action Summit held April 12 in the dining room of the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott Hotel offered a diverse sampling of speakers, including experts from Texas and North Dakotatwo of the highest-ranked states in the nation when...
Bag Ban on the Brain
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 12:41:29 -0700 | green-news
Bag Ban on the Brain City Will Start Process of Adopting Ordinance Next Week Thursday, April 18, 2013 Article Tools If a plastic bag ban were enacted throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, consumers would use 400 million fewer plastic bags a...
Slower Ships Mean Less Emissions
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 00:39:27 -0700 | green-news
This came to light during a briefing by the Air Pollution Control Board, which is currently working in conjunction with the shipping industry and the U.S...Sweetening the pot for the industry for which time is definitely big money are cap-and-trade...
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