Zero-Energy Buildings to Zero-Energy Communities
Zero-Energy Buildings to Zero-Energy Communities This op-ed was written by CEC President’s Council Member and Allen Construction Chair Dennis Allen. It…
What We’re Listening To: Food For Thought
We regularly ask CEC’s Staff, Board, Partnership Council, and President’s Council to offer their perspectives as thought leaders in the…
CEC Honored as a 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year
November 19, 2020 SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is proud to announce it has been selected…
Solarize Ventura – Residential Solar and Battery Storage 101 – Webinar Q&A
Below are questions and answers that were posed in our Solarize Ventura County – Residential Solar and Battery Systems 101…
Raise the Red Flag on the Causes of Wildfire
Raise the Red Flag on the Causes of Wildfire This op-ed was written by CEC Board Member and former Santa…
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 and Ventura County – 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 Solarize Santa Barbara and Solarize Ventura County webinars on Home…
Climate Resilience Roundtable: Vulnerability, Health, and Equity – Webinar Transcript
Below is the full transcript from the Climate Resilience Roundtable: Vulnerability, Health, and Equity webinar. It is sectioned by slide…
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…
