It’s a big honor for Explore Ecology to be receiving Santa Barbara Permaculture Network’s Local Food Hero Award at the […more…]

Last summer, just a couple of months before Montecito Journal’s 2nd annual The Giving List book was published, Clean Coalition’s […more…]

The time for action on climate change is now. For the Community Environmental Council (CEC), an environmental stalwart on the […more…]

In 1990, a group of parents excited about the potential of creative reuse and worried about the lack of funding […more…]

In 1969, a major blowout at Union Oil’s Platform A caused an estimated four million gallons of crude to pour […more…]

The 70 miles of coast spanning Lake Casitas to Point Conception, and including Carpinteria, Montecito, Santa Barbara, and Goleta, is […more…]

In the face of wildfire and drought, these recommendations seek to protect against climate threats Community Environmental Council (CEC), the […more…]

Many HTO fans know about our organization’s work capping the leaking oil wells of Summerland. For decades, oil has been […more…]

Films include Gaviota: The End of Southern California and Better Together Featured as a part of the Community Environmental Council […more…]

Despite the pandemic, carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere have just climbed to the highest concentration in recorded history – […more…]

Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA, is the recipient of the Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council’s 2021 Environmental Hero […more…]

As philanthropists, it is our view that wealth is both a blessing and a responsibility. We have been most fortunate […more…]

Rachel Simon would be the first to admit she was blessed by the circumstances of her birth.  Her father is […more…]