Action Alerts

  • SpaceX launches meeting-Zoom link and talking points-Thurs, Jan 23

    Please read the items below:

    1. Give input on SpaceX launches on Thursday-link is below
    2. Combined Roundtable Friday with Sup. Roy Lee and Councilmember Wendy Santamaria
    3. Message from CAUSE re ICE
    4. Fill out City of SM Survey
    5. Renew Membership with SBCAN 

    Give input on SpaceX proposal to launch 100 rockets annually

    Members of the public are invited to give input on SpaceX’s proposal to use a second launch site to boost their number of rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base to 100 per year.

    A virtual public scoping meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. 

    The Zoom link is:
     https://mantech.zoomgov.com/j/1608982564

    Here's a message from our allies at the Gaviota Coast Conservancy:

  • Meet Sup. Lee and Councilmember Santamaria on Friday, Jan 24, 2025

    Meet new County Supervisor Roy Lee and new SB City Councilmember Wendy Santamaria during our Combined Roundtable Friday, Jan. 24 at noon.

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    SBCAN Combined Roundtable
    Friday, January 24, 2025
    Noon-1:30 p.m.
    Via Zoom

    Agenda

    1. Welcome
    2. First District Supervisor Roy Lee gives brief remarks followed by questions and comments from participants
    3. Santa Barbara City Councilmember Wendy Santamaria gives brief remarks followed by questions and comments from participants
    4. Other issues or announcements
    5. Closing

    Register for the Zoom meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_9Kj2Q09RESOPWmYkbMgKQ     



     

  • Give input on SpaceX 100 launches proposal

    Give input on SpaceX proposal to launch 100 rockets annually

    Members of the public are invited to give input on SpaceX’s proposal to use a second launch site to boost their number of rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base to 100 per year.

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    The Department of the Air Force is seeking input as it prepares an Environmental Impact Statement to evaluate the potential environmental effects associated with changes to the Falcon Launch Program.

  • Shape the Future of Recreation in SM tonight, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2024

    City of Santa Maria requests your input tonight on it's 5-year "Leisure Needs" Master Plan.

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    We agree with our friends at MOVE Santa Barbara County who say "Now is the time to ask for more pedestrian and bike infrastructure (paths, racks, lockers), public art (artistic bike racks, decorative barriers), and programming (bike education and rides)."

    Thursday, January 16, 2025 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

    Online Public Meeting: Virtual Meeting Link


     

  • Say NO to oil trucking. NC Roundtable cancelled.

    Santa Barbara County Action Network asks you to join with community members to sign and share this petition and urge the County Planning Commission to VOTE NO on allowing Sentinel Peak Resources to truck crude oil 165 miles from Lompoc Hills to Coalinga. 
     

    Provide public comment on 
    Wednesday, February 12 at the County building in Santa Maria.
  • Membership Renewal - Happy New Year - 2024 Highlights

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    We hope you're enjoying the holidays.

    We’re stepping up our game – and we hope you’ll step up with us!

    We have new initiatives we’ve implemented and more we’ve planned. Please read our 2024 “Highlights” for details. And as always, we are continuing to work on environmental, economic and social justice issues.

    Thanks for your support through your participation, membership, sponsorship or donations.

    You are integral to our success. You have helped us build a strong network of progressive activists, save prime farmland, create more affordable housing, work to improve water quality, fight increased trucking of fossil fuels and restarting of the pipeline that burst into the channel, and more.

    We are making our annual membership appeal now. If you recently paid your membership, or sponsored one of our events, or made a donation, you are already a member for 2025. We’re not asking you to contribute again – unless you want to! Mostly, we hope you will read our 2024 Highlights and continue to be involved with us.

    If you have not made a recent contribution, we hope you will become a member or renew your dues now to help us continue to doour vital work. We rely on grants, sponsors, donors, fundraisers and you to keep doing our educational and advocacy work.

    The average amount of dues our members pay is $10/month, however, we welcome higher or lower membership dues – whatever level works for you.

    Please make your donation online at sbcan.org/donations, or send a check to P.O. Box 6174, Santa Maria, CA 93456-6174. We especially like monthly contributions!

    We’ll send information soon on our 2025 Annual Membership Meeting and Election.

    If you are not receiving emails from us, please sign up for our Action Alerts at sbcan.org/sign-up, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/SBCANorg

    Enjoy the holidays! Happy New Year! And thanks again!

    Sincerely,

    Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough
    Co-Executive Directors

  • Happy Holidays from SBCAN - 2024 Highlights - Stepping up our game!

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    We’re stepping up our game – and we hope you’ll step up with us!

    We have new initiatives we’ve implemented and more we’ve planned. Please read our 2024 “Highlights” for details. And as always, we are continuing to work on environmental, economic and social justice issues.

    Thanks for your support through your participation, membership, sponsorship or donations.

    You are integral to our success. You have helped us build a strong network of progressive activists, save prime farmland, create more affordable housing, work to improve water quality, fight increased trucking of fossil fuels and restarting of the pipeline that burst into the channel, and more.

    We are making our annual membership appeal now. If you recently paid your membership, or sponsored one of our events, or made a donation, you are already a member for 2025. We’re not asking you to contribute again – unless you want to! Mostly, we hope you will read our 2024 Highlights and continue to be involved with us.

    If you have not made a recent contribution, we hope you will become a member or renew your dues now to help us continue to doour vital work. We rely on grants, sponsors, donors, fundraisers and you to keep doing our educational and advocacy work.

    The average amount of dues our members pay is $10/month, however, we welcome higher or lower membership dues – whatever level works for you. Please pay online at sbcan.org/donations, or send a check to P.O. Box 6174, Santa Maria, CA 93456-6174.

    We’ll send information soon on our 2025 Annual Membership Meeting and Election.

    If you are not receiving emails from us, please sign up for our Action Alerts at sbcan.org/sign-up, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/SBCANorg

    Enjoy the holidays! Happy New Year! And thanks again!

    Sincerely,

    Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough
    Co-Executive Directors

  • Thank you for attending SBCAN's Inspiring Leadership Awards 2024

    Thank you for having joined us to celebrate these distinguished leaders!

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    SBCAN Inspiring Leadership Awards & Fundraiser 2024

    View more pictures from the event on our Facebook page.
    View the recorded event here.

  • Speak up against trucking oil. Join SM Riverkeepers

    Urge the County Planning Commission to deny the Sentinel Peak Truck Rack project
    Wednesday, Dec. 11
    Betteravia Government Center
    511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria
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      Dominion Road east of Orcutt, Oct. 11, 2021 - photo by SB County Fire

    Previously we have reported to you on this proposal to restart oil production in the hills above Lompoc and to truck crude oil 165 miles to Coalinga.

  • Inspiring Leadership Awards Friday, Nov 22; SM Riverkeepers

    Join us to celebrate these distinguished leaders!

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    SBCAN Inspiring Leadership Awards & Fundraiser

    Friday, November 22, 2024
    5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

    UCSB Faculty Club
    Building 581, off Ocean Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

    Park in Lot #23 on Ocean Drive

    If you call it up on Google Maps, search for UCSB Faculty Club, Isla Vista, CA 93117
    (Although the club is also called The Club & Guest House at UCSB, if you call up those directions on Google Maps, you'll be directed to the wrong parking lot.)

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