[Scpg] Organizing Our Neighborhoods for Life After Oil Thursday April 9th

[Quail Springs]

We'll be there, and hope to see many of you from the Santa Barbara area this


Thursday April 9th at the event on Organizing Our Neighborhoods for Life
After 

Oil, which will be held in a Town Hall format.  The earlier events in the
series had 

over 150 in attendance, showing just how important the issues are to our 

communities. 

 

 

Join the Community Environmental Council (CEC) and the Santa Barbara 

Museum of Natural History as we explore how everyday people are coming 

together in neighborhoods, schools, churches and community groups to develop


local sources for food and water, take advantage of the abundant renewable 

energy sources in our region, provide support to one another in case of "oil


shocks," and create a new, more resilient energy economy. The topic will
then 

culminate in the theme for this year's Earth Day Festival, to be held on
April 19 at 

Alameda Park, as well as the theme for an online short video contest.

 

Life After Oil lecture series & community events

Organized by the Community Environmental Council

Hosted by Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Sponsored by The Sustainability Project and USGBC-C4

 

Thursday, April 9 -- 7 to 8:30 pm

Organizing our Neighborhoods for Life After Oil

Location: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Cost: Free

Speakers: John Kelley and Dennis Thompson are local architects involved with
a 

volunteer effort to increase self-sufficiency, community, and sustainability
in 

Santa Barbara's Mesa neighborhood. In addition to creating an architectural 

vision of a "Mesa Village," community, leaders in this neighborhood are
publishing 

a monthly newspaper, hosting bi-monthly village meetings, and organizing 

regular "Mesa Food Exchanges."

Speaker: Psychotherapist and ecotherapist Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, M.A.,
M.F.T. 

is a member of the Seeds Committee of Transition Town Santa Barbara -- a new


local organization that is part of a global grassroots effort to help
communities 

make the transition to post-fossil-fuel, sustainable living. 

www.transitiontownsb.org

 

 

Sunday, April 19 - 10 am to 5:30 pm

South Coast Earth Day Festival

Location: Alameda Park

Cost: Free

This annual festival hosted by the Community Environmental Council will be 

centered around the theme of Life After Oil. Highlights include a Green Car
Show 

with dozens of models of the most cutting-edge fuels and vehicles, including
the 

Tesla Roadster, and more than 200 exhibitors featuring technologies and 

products to help visitors create a greener life. In addition, this year's
festival will 

feature a fully-built-out Green Design Home - a 24x24 foot model green home 

that will be constructed in the park prior to the festival and moved to a
Tea Fire 

survivor after the festival is over. Details at www.SBEarthDay.org

 

February 13 to April 19

Green Shorts video contest

Awards for the winners!

The Life After Oil theme will also be featured in a 2-month amateur video
contest 

and online film festival. Videos are limited to two minutes in length and
can 

address any aspect of everyday life including transportation, home and
garden, 

work, recreation, etc., and the subsequent actions taken to reduce an
individual's 

or organization's carbon footprint and dependence on fossil fuel. The
contest is 

free to enter and winning videos will be screened at the South Coast Earth
Day 

Festival; prizes include a laptop computer and airing on local public access


stations. Details at www.SBEarthDay.org

 

Special thanks to our event partners:

COAST, Environmental Defense Center, Fess Parker's DoubleTree Resort 

Hotel, Get Oil Out, the Mesa Paper, Quail Springs, Santa Barbara Bicycle 

Coalition, Santa Barbara Food Not Lawns, and Santa Barbara 

Permaculture Network

 

 

Go to www.quailsprings.org/lifeafteroil_large.pdf to view the LIFE AFTER OIL
flyer or visit 

www.communityenvironmentalcouncil.org to learn more.

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