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…
The Right to Breathe
The following is part of a series of reflections CEC’s CEO Sigrid Wright occasionally sends our leadership team about the…
For The Community Environmental Council, The Show Must Go On
For The Community Environmental Council, The Show Must Go On, by Kara Shoemaker This article was originally published by…
Navigating by New Constellations
The following is part of a series of reflections CEC’s CEO Sigrid Wright occasionally sends our leadership team about the…
Adaptive Leadership Practices: CEC CEO Sigrid Wright on Adapting During a Crisis
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
Resilience From the Ground Up
Climate resilience and community resilience are so intimately connected, it’s hard to think about one without the other, as the…
Green Gala 2020
Thank you for your interest in CEC’s Green Gala. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the Green Gala has been…
Unraveling the Kinks in the Local Food Chain to Build and Sustain a Resilient Food System
Like a heat map, the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to areas of strain, places where we need to pay…
Trains, Planes & Automobiles: How Transportation Systems May Be Permanently Altered by the COVID-19 Pandemic
As states and counties begin to plan for re-opening, we have a rare opportunity to design a new approach to…
The Long Emergency
The following is part of a series of reflections CEC’s CEO Sigrid Wright occasionally sends our leadership team about the…
Saving Food, Saving Lives: Santa Barbara County Food Rescue During COVID-19
Crisis Response Directly after the stay-at-home order went into effect on March 19, I began hearing about the increased…
Burn Your Maps
The following is part of a series of reflections CEC’s CEO Sigrid Wright occasionally sends our leadership team about the…
CEC’s Santa Barbara Earth Day: A Brief History by Paul Relis
"What I love about Earth Day today is that it has become an enormous exchange of information and ideas about…
The Earth Without Us: An Earth Day Reflection from Sigrid Wright
Here we are, weeks and months into an unprecedented global exploration into isolation due to COVID-19. And once again, the most poignant takeaway of this new territory may very well be our keen rediscovery of how our lives depend on one another.
How COVID-19 Could Help Us Get Through the Climate Crisis
This piece originally appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent on April 15, 2020. Read their full Earth Day issue here.…
Food Resilience During the Pandemic: Habits to Learn and Systems to Strengthen
Over the last month, as Californians and communities around the world have shifted their daily patterns – including how we…
CEC Holds Timely Home Energy Storage Workshops #climateresilience
2019 Workshops and Resources In the Fall and Winter of 2019, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) partnered with city and…
How the Pandemic Could be a Crossroads for the Climate
The pandemic could be a crossroads for the climate if we act together now. We’ve learned a few key things from the climate movement that can be helpful here. And vice versa; what we’re learning from this extremely challenging public health crisis could make this a watershed moment for climate change and an enormous opportunity for transformation.
Bold, Timely Solutions That Can Inform COVID-19 Community Needs #climateresilience
The pandemic exposes our region's social, economic and environmental strengths and vulnerabilities – the exact type of community resilience CEC's Climate Resilience Roundtables are designed to help us work toward together. See community-driven solutions we've developed that could support us in this time.
