California’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2045 can feel daunting and somewhat elusive. The Community Environmental Council (CEC) believes […more…]

One of Santa Barbara’s longest-running community-organized festivals, our Earth Day celebration is also one of the oldest in the country, […more…]

Over the last couple of years, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) has dramatically increased its efforts to combat climate change […more…]

Santa Barbara nonprofit Community Environmental Council has long been on the forefront of the environmental movement ever since its founding […more…]

It sounds like a question my daughter would ask me: “What’s your favorite whale?”  Still, I couldn’t help myself, after […more…]

Our climate is in crisis. Record-setting heat waves. Larger and more destructive wildfires. An historic megadrought, hotter and drier than […more…]

The White House announced today that the Department of the Interior will reduce and eventually phase out the sale of […more…]

In one of the funnier moments in the famous 1967 film The Graduate, a friend of Ben’s parents takes him […more…]

In what is being heralded as a historic win for advocates working to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, parties to […more…]

The cosmetics industry generates approximately US$ 341.1 billion annually—and 120 billion units of plastic packaging, most of which are not […more…]

For the Cohen sisters, taking on the embodiment of the fossil fuel and climate crisis – plastic – started with […more…]

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

With Earth Day 2021 rolling around just a week after the publication date of this issue of the Montecito Journal, […more…]