She’s Our Hero
Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA, is the recipient of the Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council’s 2021 Environmental Hero Award.
“Her work exemplifies what it means to build the broad, boots-on-the-ground base of activism that we need to go all in together on the climate crisis,” says the CEC executive director Sigrid Wright, who will present the award at the Earth Day Festival in April along with UCSB’s Dehlsen chair of environmental studies David Pellow.
Leonard is also the founder of The Story of Stuff and previously spent two decades working on international sustainability as well as environmental and health issues.
She says California is the “pace car” in the climate race – meaning both state and regional organizations like the CEC have a huge responsibility in moving the world forward.
Leonard joins an esteemed list of heroes including activist Paul Hawken, U.S. Congress members Lois Capps and Salud Carbajal, Titanic film director James Cameron, science educator Bill Nye, actress Daryl Hannah, and Tesla Motors magnate Elon Musk.
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Mission
The Community Environmental Council (CEC) advances rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis – including ambitious zero carbon goals, drawdown of excess carbon, and protection against the impacts of climate change. CEC was recognized as a 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year and a City of Santa Barbara Climate Hero and is led by CEO Sigrid Wright who was recently named 2022 Congressional Woman of the Year. CEC has worked since 1970 to incubate and innovate real-life environmental solutions that directly affect the California Central Coast. Our programs lead to clean vehicles, solar energy, resilient food systems, and reduction of single-use plastic.
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CEC helped me understand the basics and the complexities of climate change, and how to take steps in my life to make positive changes. I also gained a deeper understanding of how to strategically bring environmental sustainability into my work to help clients be successful.
Training the Next Generation of Climate Activists
The Community Environmental Council (CEC) builds on-the-ground momentum to reverse the threat of the climate crisis and ensure a vibrant and resilient future for California’s Central Coast.
Training the next generation of climate activists – young and old – is critical to achieving this mission.
Funds are needed for CEC’s youth climate workshops, community advocacy training, and climate change education and outreach activities.
Every $300 donation supports training one certified CEC Climate Steward.
2024 Board of Directors
Jon Clark, President
Chandler Buie
Bill Cuttler
Christine DeVries
Nadra Ehrman
Geoff Green
David Jackson
Dr. Barbara Lindemann
Elliott MacDougall
Pat McElroy
Dr. David Pellow
Ivette Peralta
Peter Schuyler
Tammy Sims Johnson
Michelle Weinman
Key Supporters Foundations
James S. Bower Foundation
Patricia and Paul Bragg Foundation
Hutton Parker Foundation
Natalie Orfalea Foundation
Ann Jackson Family Foundation
John C. Mithun Foundation
Errett Fisher Foundation
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Living Peace Foundation
Santa Barbara Foundation
Weingart Foundation
El Gato Channel Foundation
McCune Foundation
Schlinger Family Foundation