if you haven't voted yet, there is still time!
you can drop your ballots off today at: (
7am-8pm)
- City Hall, 735 Anacapa St
- Calvary Baptist Church, Sizer Hall, 736 W. Islay Street, 93101
- Franklin Neighborhood Center, Multipurpose Rm, 1136 E. Montecio St,
93103
- Grace Lutheran Church, 3869 State Street, 93105
although lots of imperfections in our democracy we could focus on,
sometimes you gotta take the opportunities where they exist and present
themselves. participatory democracy, means you have to
participate!
we have 3 strong environmental candidates running for City Council, that
most of us (and our organizations) have access to in a small city like
Santa Barbara. we could use a receptive ear when we come forward
with our ideas...
so much can be accomplished at the city & local level that can
trickle up. cities across the country are tackling issues like
climate change, food security issues, energy & transportation, not
waiting for federal & state governments. It's time to scale up,
return Santa Barbara to the forefront and be a leader in sustainability,
not rest on our laurels from past decades. we need leaders in city
government to do this, and we need to be their constituency, weigh in
with our ideas...happily, this community is full of creative & smart
people with lots of strategies & ideas.
Permaculture always talks about "invisible structures", the
constructs that make up the world we live in, that we barely notice until
they don't work. city government, like anything else we look at
from a design perspective, could use some design tweaks, meaning, don't
take it for granted, look at how it functions, see where we can all
come in with positive solutions (small & large) to make the construct
work better.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
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