Press Releases

Settlement Helps Preserve Prime Farmland in Santa Barbara County

UCSB and SUN Reach Agreement on Campus’s Long Range Development Plan

May 2011

 

            (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– U.C. Santa Barbara and representatives of Sustainable University Now (SUN) have reached an agreement relating to the adoption of the campus’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). Among the terms of the agreement are more effective mitigation of potential environmental impacts and allowing community groups to join UCSB oversight committees.

SB CAN Thanks Retiring Executive Director for Service

Santa Barbara County Action Network (SB CAN) thanks Deborah Brasket for her service as Executive Director

SB CAN Files Lawsuit to Preserve Prime Farmland

 

SB CAN Urges "Yes on S" and "No" on Prop 23

 

SB CAN’s Continuing Series of Workshops on Best Practices in Sustainability

SB CAN’s Continuing Series of Workshops on Best Practices in Sustainability

 

Lompoc Two-Part Public Workshop

 

“MOVING BEYOND RECYCLING”

May 5 and June 16

 

Beyond Recycling – “The Story of Stuff"

 

Wednesday, May 5, 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Lompoc Library, 501 East North Ave.
Presenter: Joerg Blischke, Chemical Process Engineer & Consultant

 

This free, public workshop moves us beyond mainstream recycling practices to explore some of the newest thinking about waste reduction and resource management.

 

A slideshow presentation will provide a diverse overview of what various communities in North America and Europe are doing to manage resources more wisely.

 

The workshop also features video clips of Annie Leonard’s entertaining talk on “The Story of Stuff,” and William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s inspirational vision of “Cradle to Cradle” product design that prevents waste from being manufactured in the first place by promoting the intelligent redesign of goods and services.

 

SB CAN Appoints Joyce Howerton as Advocacy Director

 

The Story of "Stuff" - Transitioning from Waste to Resource

 

SB CAN Opposes Propositions 1D and 1E

 For IMMEDIATE Release - May 7, 2009

 

Contact Olivia Uribe, Associate Director

Telephone 805-563-0463 / Olivia@sbcan.org

 

 

SB CAN Opposes Propositions 1D and 1E

 

SANTA BARBARA-- Today, Santa Barbara County Action Network (SB CAN) announced its opposition to Propositions 1D and 1E on the May 19 Ballot. These propositions would take away funding from critical programs that help the most needy and vulnerable among us—at-risk children and people with mental health problems.

 

SUN Coalition Celebrates Community Involvement in UCSB’S LRDP

 For immediate release

Contact: Dick Flacks   805-962-2057

Olivia Uribe                 805-563-0463   

 

SUN COALITION CELEBRATES COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN