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January 2020
Arts & Lectures’ Thematic Learning Initiative: Forces of Nature
Transform your life. Transform your community. Arts & Lectures’ Thematic Learning Initiative extends the conversation from the stage into the community, inspiring lifelong learning opportunities that initiate change and empowerment. Join A&L and other knowledge seekers like you who want…
Find out more »Community Land Use Planning for a Changing Climate: The City of Santa Barbara
WHEN & WHERE Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:30PM - 8:30PM Louise Lowry Davis Center 1232 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 PANELISTS Eric Nickel Fire Chief, City of Santa Barbara Melissa Hetrick Project Planner, City of Santa Barbara…
Find out more »Two Years After Fire and Flood: A Community Conversation About the Impacts of the Thomas Fire and January 9 Debris Flow
Two years since the catastrophic incidents in Santa Barbara County, their effects continue to be felt. In addition to the terrible direct impacts of these events on our community, ash from the fire and mud relocated to beaches also affected…
Find out more »FILM: This Changes Everything
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of climate change, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing…
Find out more »Leah Stokes: Climate Change in our Backyard: Impacts, Policy and Politics
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020 UCSB Library presents a talk by Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, to be followed by a public reception. Whether it’s sea level rise in the Bay Area, hurricanes in New York City and the Bahamas,…
Find out more »PUBLIC LECTURE: Kenneth Rosenberg – Three Billion Birds Lost
Three Billion Birds Lost: The Disappearance of North American Birds and What We Can Do About It Presented with the Santa Barbara Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Part of the Thematic Learning Initiative: Forces of…
Find out more »February 2020
FILM: A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, the film connects the major causes of environmentalism, from conservation to climate change, through vivid archival footage and interviews that shed light on the battle for a living planet. Presented with the…
Find out more »Food as Medicine: The Digestion Connection
The Digestion Connection: How Digestion Impacts States of Health and Disease Wednesday, February 19 6-8pm Santa Barbara Public Library Faulkner Gallery 40 E Anapamu Street Join nutrition advocates Vibeke Welland and Randi Miller for an educational discussion, followed by nutritious…
Find out more »FILM: Jane
"Watching Jane was like stepping back in time to a moment at which Homo sapiens learned something new and vital about its own family – the great apes. It was extraordinary." The Telegraph (U.K.) Drawing from over 100 hours of…
Find out more »Bill McKibben – Our Changing Climate: A Global Movement of Reform
Our Changing Climate: A Global Movement of Reform “One of the nation’s most important environmental activists.” The Washington Post Of all the challenges the planet faces, none is as large as its fast-heating climate – and no one has worked…
Find out more »March 2020
David Wallace-Wells: Surviving the World
Surviving the World: Making the Best of a Burdened Planet The future is being transformed by climate change, faster and more dramatically than we realized. Politics, technology, cities, business, even our sense of history, human rights and justice will all…
Find out more »Her Festival
Join us on International Women’s Day to celebrate our community’s girls and women and to empower the next generation of female leaders! Highlights Include: Unique interactive booths and activities Inspiring Keynote speakers Local companies, nonprofits, and organizations Main stage hosting…
Find out more »FILM: Anthropocene
The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group, who are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century because of profound and lasting human changes to…
Find out more »Dr. Jane Goodall – Gombe: 60 Years of Discovery
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE Gombe: 60 Years of Discovery “Hers is a powerful message to protect the inherent rights of every living creature, to provide hope for future generations and to sound an urgent call against the greatest environmental threat…
Find out more »April 2020
PUBLIC LECTURE: Kandi White – Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities
A lead organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Kandi White is fighting the impacts that climate change and environmental injustice are having on indigenous communities across North America. Part of the Thematic Learning Initiative: Forces of Nature Arts & Lectures’…
Find out more »Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival 2020
The Community Environmental Council (CEC) will host its 2020 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival at Alameda Park on Saturday, April 18 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 19 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. In the days…
Find out more »PUBLIC LECTURE: Jane Lubchenco
From a Rude Awakening to a Bold New Vision: The Path from a Disastrous Oil Spill to a Sustainable Future Dubbed “the bionic woman of good science,” MacArthur fellow, former presidential advisor and distinguished professor Jane Lubchenco is a renowned…
Find out more »Yvon Chouinard: Protecting Public Land
Yvon Chouinard An Afternoon with the Founder of Patagonia Protecting Public Land A moderated conversation with Yvon Chouinard and featuring clips from Patagonia’s upcoming film, This Land. In a time of growing divisions, Americans still share something in common: 640…
Find out more »Naomi Klein – The Case for a Green New Deal
The Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist and the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough and her most recent, On Fire: The (Burning) Case…
Find out more »May 2020
Elizabeth Rush – Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020, UCSB Library presents a talk by Elizabeth Rush, author of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Her book explores how humans adapt to changes enacted upon them by forces…
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