Electric Vehicles Are For Everyone: Everything You Wanted to Learn About Affordable EVs, and More
My love for driving electric began in 2012, when I purchased a Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid. Completely happy with the…
Solarize Santa Barbara – Home Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Battery Systems: Affordable Options for Your Lifestyle – Webinar Q&A
Below are questions and answers that were posed in our Home Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Battery Systems: Affordable Options for…
Future Ancestors
The following is part of a series of reflections CEC’s CEO Sigrid Wright occasionally sends our leadership team about the…
Feeding Our Soils and Feeding Ourselves
As a leader of CEC’s regenerative agriculture efforts, I spend a lot of time walking through fields of grass and…
Resilience as Resistance. Resiliencia como forma de Resistencia.
Resilience as Resistance: A Tool for Adaptation, Transformation, and Power At CEC, much of my work centers on building community…
Some moments change your life. Algunos momentos cambian tu vida.
Some moments change your life. It was January 2011 and I was crossing the street with my children in our…
Are New Homes in California Achieving Zero Net Energy?
California has received global attention for its goal of requiring all new homes to be zero net energy (ZNE) by 2020. A big component of achieving ZNE has been to sharply ratchet up energy-efficiency improvements in buildings. The challenge is turning out to be the glut of solar power during the afternoon but not enough renewable power after sundown to meet heavy evening demand. The crux is not having enough energy storage capacity. By CEC President's Council Member, Dennis Allen.
This post originally appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent on August 7, 2020
Solarize Santa Barbara – Residential Solar and Battery Storage 101 – Webinar Transcript
Below is the full transcript from the Solarize Santa Barbara – Residential Solar and Battery Storage 101 webinar. It is…
Solarize Santa Barbara – Residential Solar and Battery Storage 101 – Webinar Q&A
Below are questions and answers that were posed in our Solarize Santa Barbara – Residential Solar and Battery Storage 101…
Getting Real About Plastics and Recycling – Webinar Q & A
Below are questions and answers that were posed in our Getting Real About Plastics and Recycling Webinar. CEC staff and…
Finding Solar Joy – and Savings – During the Pandemic
We’re spending more time at home, which means many of us are rolling up our sleeves on long-delayed home improvement…
What We’re Reading: Doughnut Economics
We regularly ask CEC’s Staff, Board, Partnership Council, and President's Council to offer their perspectives as thought leaders in the…
Plastic: We Are What We Eat and Breathe
When I became a climate activist more than a decade ago, focusing on single use plastics seemed like a great…
EV 101 – Webinar Q&A
These questions and answers were answered live or developed after CEC’s June 2020 EV 101 webinar. Some of the answers…
Inside Julia’s Kitchen: Meet Julia Blanton, SBC Food Rescue Program Coordinator
Recently on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, a podcast of The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, host Todd…
Embajador de la Comunidad: Being a CEC Ambassador To and For the Community
Embajador de la Comunidad: Being a CEC Ambassador To and For the Community Recently, I needed to translate “Community Ambassador”…
Take Action on Local Transportation Reform in your Community / Toma acción sobre la reforma del sistema de transportación en tu comunidad
Take Action on Local Transportation System Reform in your Community Connected/Conectados 2050 encourages residents to give input on challenges, needs,…
TEDxSantaBarbara: The Pandemic Did Not Solve the Climate Crisis
TEDxSantaBarbara: The Pandemic Did Not Solve the Climate Crisis CEC's CEO Sigrid Wright recently joined TEDxSantaBarbara's Mark Sylvester to discuss…
League of Women Voters Community Forum
Our Climate Emergency During the Pandemic: A Virtual Community Forum June 10, 2020 Thank you to everyone who attended –…
Local Lessons About Local Food: A Call to Invest in Local Food Infrastructure
Local Lessons About Local Food: A Call to Invest in Local Food Infrastructure This op-ed was originally published by the…