2022 Impact Report
A Letter from our CEO and Board President
Dear Friends,
When the Community Environmental Council was created over 50 years ago, we answered an urgent call to protect and preserve the health and integrity of California’s Central Coast. Over time, our unique approach not only shaped this region, but influenced California and beyond.
Today the Community Environmental Council works to reverse the climate crisis with a blend of daring imagination and effective pragmatism—two things the world needs more of, and quickly. Incremental progress is not an option. That’s why we’ve recently doubled down: doubling our staff, programming, and service areas to bring audacious ideas to scale.
This impact report provides a brief snapshot of our work over the last year, highlighting the ways we are accelerating progress through research, strategy, collaboration, and experimentation.
We encourage you to learn more about the work that inspires you. We also invite you to join us at our new collaborative community space at 1219 State Street in Santa Barbara. CEC’s first-of-its-kind Environmental Hub is an epicenter for climate action where we can come together to turn inspiration into practical solutions to the climate crisis. Learn more about CEC’s Environmental Hub at envirohubsb.org.
More than 50 years after our founding, we remain steadfast in our belief that by embracing fierce hope, taking collective action with urgency, and harnessing a proven blueprint that draws on the best of people and nature, we will ensure the Central Coast remains a treasure for generations to come.
Sincerely,
During a year of record growth, we continued to sharpen our focus and deepen our capacity to respond regionally to the global climate crisis. Through a successful 50th Anniversary Campaign, we raised additional funds and grew our net assets by over $2 million. This allowed us to broaden existing programs, expand our service area, develop new projects, and create an Environmental Hub for the community, which will open this summer.
CEC consistently receives high ratings from GuideStar and Charity Navigator for financial health, accountability, and transparency.
OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS
$3 MILLION+ INVESTED in
CEC’s new Environmental Hub
$2 Million INCREASE in net assets
17%GROWTH in programs
I am grateful to the Community Environmental Council for bringing us together to strategize and take action so we can break free from big oil.”
Jane Fonda
Actor and Climate Activist
Photo by Matt Dayka
Our Work
CEC builds on-the-ground momentum to reverse the threat of the climate crisis.
We transform the systems that fuel it. We safeguard the community from its impacts. We lead, we partner, we act. And every day, we inspire people to create a more resilient California Central Coast.
As the modern environmental movement broadens to better reflect the racial, economic, political, and age diversity of our region, we are building networks of diverse, engaged activists who champion rigorous climate action.
By focusing our efforts, together we are making progress to:
REVERSE the trajectory of climate change by propelling a rapid, equitable transition to zero emissions and zero waste in the Central Coast’s energy, transportation, food, agriculture, construction, and waste sectors.
REPAIR the disrupted carbon cycle by accelerating and bringing to scale climate-smart agriculture practices that draw down excess carbon from the atmosphere.
PROTECT vulnerable populations from extreme weather and other climate impacts by deploying bold, community-led solutions rooted in climate justice.
50+ Years of proven success leading locally designed solutions to our region’s most pressing environmental challenges.
CEC’s impact at a glance
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JURISDICTIONS PASSED ENERGY CODES ON THE CENTRAL COAST (with 3 more not far behind) that ensure new construction is built all-electric with no natural gas, accelerating progress toward California’s climate goals.
1.4 million
Residents in 22 cities and counties across San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties have access to 100% renewable and clean electricity sooner because of CEC’s advocacy for community choice energy programs.
27,000+
Community members were INFORMED, ACTIVATED, AND GUIDED ON CLIMATE ACTION by CEC through webinars, meetings, events, and roundtable discussions.
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AIR QUALITY MONITORS WERE INSTALLED in Northern Santa Barbara County to track wildfire smoke, pesticides, and other airborne toxins so impacted communities can better understand air pollution and its health effects.
15,000
EV curious community members LEARNED ABOUT AND TEST DROVE ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND E-BIKES at outreach events put on by CEC and our Electric Drive 805 collaborative.
7 million
Single-use water bottles were not used because of 121 community water refill stations installed as a direct result of cec’s waste reduction program.
100+
Community members were certified as CEC CLIMATE STEWARDS, equipping them to play an active role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis.
122
Units of multifamily housing in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties RECEIVED ENERGY UPGRADES through CEC’s partnership with 3C-REN’s Multifamily Home Energy Upgrade Program.
OUR WORK
Climate Policy
The County of Santa Barbara has strengthened purchasing policies to only buy EVs for their fleet, while rapidly moving them toward 100% renewable energy. Photo by CEC.
Our Vision
When the Central Coast advances ambitious goals and solutions like 100% renewable energy or plastic bag bans, we illuminate a path that gives the state and other regions confidence to set more aggressive policies.
CEC’s Climate Policy team is collaborating with a diverse group of passionate and committed community members and partners across San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties to enact bold policies that will bring equitable climate solutions to scale. Current policy priorities include reversing climate pollution and reducing waste, repairing lands and sequestering carbon, building climate resilience and advancing climate justice, and accelerating funding for climate action.
In 2022, CEC
Published a climate policy platform that guides CEC’s advocacy for climate-safe and climate-smart policies.
Campaigned for the City of Santa Paula to join the Clean Power Alliance, giving more than 30,000 residents a quicker path to 100% renewable electricity.
Following successes in the cities of Santa Barbara and Ojai, advocated for and helped pass an all-electric ordinance for new construction in the County of Ventura.
Encouraged the County of Santa Barbara to fund an Electric Vehicle (EV) Action Plan, hire an EV-focused position, and strengthen fleet purchasing policies to mandate EV sedans, SUVs, and trucks. CEC’s advocacy led to the addition of hundreds of EVs and charging stations for fleet, workplace, and public use.
WhAT’S ahead
Advocate for carbon neutrality and associated targets that go beyond state goals in six local city and county climate action plans.
Pass all-electric ordinances in the cities of Carpinteria and Goleta and the County of Santa Barbara, and continue to promote voluntary incentive programs to help people ditch gas appliances and switch to heat pumps and other highly efficient electric technologies.
Push Port Hueneme and Fillmore, the last remaining cities in our region, to join community choice energy programs and move more quickly toward 100% renewable electricity.
Continue to advocate for 100% electric vehicle purchasing policies and programs that make electric vehicle ownership more accessible to all.
Spotlight: Moving Toward All-Electric in New Construction
All-electric buildings are more affordable to construct, healthier for those who live in them, and more sustainable, as they can be powered with 100% renewable electricity and no natural gas. They also conserve energy with high-efficiency heat pumps, solar power, energy storage, and other advanced electric technologies.
Our transition away from gas has been surprisingly easy. All-electric is definitely the future, and we’re stoked to be on the front end of positive change.”
Casey and Hunter Turpin
All-Electric Homeowners
Carpinteria couple Casey and Hunter Turpin utilized Santa Barbara County’s Smart Build green building program to go all-electric in their new home. Photo by Sarita Relis Photography.
The Community Environmental Council leads a coalition with the Sierra Club, Climate First: Replacing Oil and Gas (CFROG), and other partners to push local cities and counties to adopt all-electric ordinances for new construction. In recent years, our coalition has successfully campaigned for the cities of Ojai and Santa Barbara and the County of Ventura to pass all-electric ordinances, and we expect three more local governments to pass similar laws in the coming months.
CEC’s coalition is responsible for a large percentage of the all-electric local ordinances passed in Southern California—contributing to the more than 74 all-electric codes that have been adopted throughout the state. Local government action will likely lead to the State of California adopting an all-electric state building code in 2025, steering the nation toward a more sustainable and fossil-free future.
CEC has previously been successful with many similar local policies that gained support to become state laws, such as 100% renewable electricity goals, 100% electric bus goals, plastic bag bans, and carbon neutrality goals. Ripple effects continue as many other cities and states follow California’s lead by passing similar legislation and regulations.
OUR WORK
Climate Justice
Air quality monitors installed in Northern Santa Barbara County are empowering our communities to understand climate impacts—and take action to safeguard their health. Photo by CEC.
Our Vision
In a region with extreme wealth disparity and some of the highest poverty rates in the state, CEC is deploying bold, community-led solutions rooted in climate justice that protect our most vulnerable populations against extreme weather and climate impacts. We engage frontline communities that are additionally impacted by fossil fuel infrastructure, legacy pollution, extreme weather, and other intersecting injustices to ensure that everyone has a say in how to protect against climate risks.
By actively creating spaces where underrepresented voices can share their vision and directly influence the planning and implementation of community-led solutions, we can catalyze and sustain investment in communities most vulnerable to climate change.
In 2022, CEC:
Partnered with Visión y Compromiso to provide electric vehicle training to Spanish-speaking community ambassadors. Through grassroots peer-to-peer education, these ambassadors helped more people access clean vehicles.
Expanded translation, interpretation, and consultation with our partner Rooted Language Justice to build Spanish language capacity and deepen CEC’s language justice work, helping ensure greater access by a broader community.
Expanded the capacity of the Central Coast Climate Justice Network to extend a regional, grassroots Green New Deal for Ventura County, launch a labor policy council, and continue to advance social, economic, racial, and environmental justice for Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
Developed Nuestro Tiempo, a space for Spanish-speaking community members to learn more about how climate change intersects with key issues, share ideas and concerns, and design ways to take action.
Expand and deepen opportunities, especially through language-accessible civic engagement, for underrepresented communities across the Central Coast to play a key role in planning and implementing climate solutions.
Partner with the County of Santa Barbara to bring regional funding that supports strong stakeholder collaborations and community partnerships, making climate justice and allyship with frontline community leaders the status quo.
Using data gathered from five air quality monitors installed in partnership with Blue Tomorrow via the Guadalupe Community Air Project, expand our understanding of regional air quality and its impacts on local communities,
and develop a Community Action Plan to advance
local air protection.Continue to recruit and retain a more diverse staff that better reflects the community we work with and serve, with a commitment by all to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ).
WhAT’S ahead
Spotlight: Nuestro Tiempo
An initiative of the Community Environmental Council, Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time) empowers Spanish-speaking community members to learn more about climate change, share ideas and concerns, and design ways to take action.
Because of my participation in Nuestro Tiempo, I know that my voice matters. I now have the resources to know who to go to about things and I have confidence and feel empowered to be part of decision-making that affects my community.”
Eneden
Member, Nuestro Tiempo
Nuestro Tiempo members Eneden and Doña Tere discuss how to build climate resilience in their community with CEC Community Ambassador Ana Rico. Photo by Sarita Relis Photography.
Held in Spanish, these meetings cover topics such as single-use plastics reduction, electric vehicles, and natural disaster planning, providing a safe space to discuss climate impacts with peers who also want to learn and see positive change. One member, Mayra, shared that since joining Nuestro Tiempo, she and her family have been inspired to take small, but impactful actions, like switching to reusable water bottles, taking shorter showers, and not overwatering their garden. In 2022, CEC helped her navigate the purchase of a hybrid vehicle, saving her family money on gas and providing an opportunity to make an even bigger impact.
Until Eneden joined Nuestro Tiempo, she felt unheard and powerless when it came to decisions that impact her community. Learning about extreme heat—and seeing how it affects her family and her neighbors firsthand—reminded her that her voice matters and is critical to influencing how our communities prepare for climate disasters. She credits the information and resources she now has access to through Nuestro Tiempo for empowering her with the confidence to speak up and engage in local politics.
Doña Tere looks forward to Nuestro Tiempo meetings where she can learn about climate issues and explore things the group can do together, like planting new trees in neighborhoods where existing ones are disappearing. Like Eneden, she feels empowered through her Nuestro Tiempo community to ask questions, seek information, and take action on environmental issues that matter to her.
OUR WORK
Climate Resilience
CEC and the California Climate & Agriculture Network co-host a field day in Santa Barbara County with stakeholder agencies and representatives to discuss how prescribed grazing can build fire resilience. Photo by Sarita Relis Photography.
Our Vision
Climate resilience is community resilience—a whole community approach that ensures everyone’s well-being is considered. Achieving resilience requires deep thinking around issues such as social and economic inequities and structural racism, as well as long-term integrated planning among agencies and jurisdictions.
To build true community-wide resilience, CEC is pioneering climate adaptation and resilience efforts that are rooted in equity and catalyzed by place-based innovation. We elevate solutions that are community-led, ready to activate, and intersectional, supporting a broad range of community needs.
In 2022, CEC:
Published the region’s first Climate Resilience Action Plan, synthesizing over 700 climate resilience and adaptation solutions from a series of five community roundtables on our region’s greatest climate threats: extreme heat, wildfire and smoke, sea level rise, drought, and intense storms. The plan identifies 11 key actions to make our region safer and more prepared for climate disruptions.
In conjunction with the Santa Barbara Fire Safe Council’s Regional Wildfire Mitigation Planning program, piloted a climate planning process that engaged frontline communities to define wildfire resilience solutions that are iterative, collaborative, and replicable.
In partnership with the Santa Barbara County Regional Climate Collaborative, identified three community resilience hubs that will provide centralized disaster services, support, and education to residents who are most vulnerable, or at high risk, during disasters.
Launch three community-designed resilience hubs in Santa Barbara County that provide refuge and resources for community members to not only survive disasters but recover, adapt, and continue to thrive in the face of future climate threats.
Work with the Santa Barbara County Wildfire Resilience Collaborative to develop and execute wildfire resilience and habitat restoration projects, including in the Goleta Riparian Corridor.
Formalize an Extreme Heat Resilience Coalition of public and private partners to develop and launch solutions for vulnerable communities who face one of the region’s deadliest climate impacts.
Align climate resilience goals with public health goals by piloting community resilience solutions to reduce the economic and health disparities related to the prevalence of extreme heat.
WhAT’S ahead
OUR WORK
Climate Leadership
CEC Climate Stewards attend a field trip with the UC Santa Barbara Marine Science Institute to learn about native plant restoration and marine protected areas along our region’s coastline. Photo by CEC.
Our Vision
With the increase in catastrophic climate events, we need more people to take an active role in protecting our communities. By working to educate, unite, and activate a broad range of Central Coast residents, CEC is building networks of diverse, engaged activists who champion authentic, rigorous climate action in their neighborhoods, businesses, and homes. The trained activists and grassroots leaders join a web of deeply-networked organizations so that together, we can move at the unprecedented pace required to reverse, repair, and protect against climate threats.
In 2022, CEC:
Increased the number of certified CEC Climate Stewards to over 100, growing the on-the-ground network of leaders now equipped to play a more proactive role in the statewide effort to advance rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis.
Through CEC Climate Steward capstone projects, developed curricula for four public museums and conservations centers along the Central Coast. These groups are now educating more than 3,000 individuals each year on how to take action, creating powerful ripple effects of grassroots climate leadership.
Informed, activated, and guided more than 27,000 individuals on climate action through webinars, meetings, events, and roundtable discussions.
Train 100+ more climate leaders who are equipped to spur a wave of grassroots climate action across the California Central Coast
and beyond.Increase the number of CEC Climate Steward capstone projects focused on climate action making a direct impact in communities throughout our region--from public education and nonprofit spaces to neighborhoods and community gardens.
Continue to partner with the growing statewide California Climate Action Corps to create and launch college and post-college level professional development for young people starting out in climate careers.
Activate CEC’s new Environmental Hub to host our Climate Action Summit and community education events, and provide a space for activists to network, collaborate, and access resources.
WhAT’S ahead
Spotlight: The Powerful Ripple Effect of
Grassroots Climate Leadership
As the first and only nonprofit on the Central Coast to deliver the Climate Stewards certification program, the Community Environmental Council equips everyday community members with the knowledge and tools to lead grassroots climate action that extends far beyond our region. One of the ways graduates are demonstrating this is through capstone projects being deployed at regional museums and conservation centers.
I want to show youth that they too can be biologists, botanists, environmentalists, or museum leaders who work in their own backyard preserving our delicate ecosystem.”
Christina Hernandez
Alum, CEC Climate Stewards Program
Community Outreach Coordinator, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center
CEC Climate Steward alum Vicky Phan teaches MOXI museum patrons of all ages about climate change and steps they can take to mitigate the impacts. Photo by Sarita Relis Photography.
At the Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation (MOXI), CEC Climate Steward Vicky Phan curated a Thinking Green curriculum in the museum’s Innovation Workshop. Using materials that would otherwise end up in the landfill, participants create wind-powered vehicles to learn about renewable energy, make eco-bricks to deepen their awareness of single-use plastics, and sort trash to see first-hand why reuse is critical to waste reduction. Meanwhile, facilitators share information and pose questions that encourage participants to take climate action at home and in their communities.
At the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, CEC Climate Steward Christina Hernandez saw a need for equitable opportunities for Spanish-speaking youth and families to learn about nature and climate change. To meet this need, Christina leads community hikes and field trips in Spanish, and developed bilingual resources that connect what participants see on these excursions to our changing climate, offering steps they can take to support the conservation of native species.
Similar curricula will launch at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Ty Warner Sea Center in the year ahead. Combined, these programs will touch tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year. As CEC looks ahead to training up more Climate Stewards, we are well on our way to creating the groundswell of climate action needed to stop climate change.
OUR WORK
Clean, Efficient Energy
CEC’s Green Car Show at Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival is just one example of how our team is connecting one-on-one with the public about how to drive and ride electric. Photo by J Andrew Hill.
Our Vision
CEC is rapidly moving the South Central Coast region to all-electric homes, businesses, and vehicles that can be powered with 100% renewable energy. By powering our vehicles and buildings with clean electricity, we can get fossil fuels out of our region for good, while developing innovative, equitable, and replicable programs to help other areas of California and the nation reach bolder goals. The quicker we collectively get there, the greater chance we have of avoiding climate disasters.
In 2022, CEC:
Partnered with the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing program to provide financial incentives to property managers, delivering long-term direct financial benefits to low-income residents, catalyzing the market for solar on multifamily housing, and creating local jobs through solar workforce training partnerships.
Building on the thousands of individuals we’ve helped with EV education through webinars and events, expanded one-on-one support in Spanish and English to 65 low- to moderate-income drivers on how to utilize incentives and other benefits—making the switch to an electric vehicle easier.
Worked with the Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN) and the Association for Energy Affordability to expand outreach for energy efficiency and building electrification improvements at multifamily residential housing, resulting in home energy upgrades for 122 residential housing units across San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties.
Completed three Solarize Nonprofit projects (11 to date), including Clinicas Fillmore and Planned Parenthood Ventura, whose buildings now have solar panels paired with battery storage, stabilizing the facility’s energy costs and enabling them to provide critical affordable healthcare to underserved residents during grid outages.
Expand efforts to help Central Coast residents move away from gasoline and natural gas, including through our new Electrify Your Life service that provides one-on-one support to affordably transition to high efficiency electric appliances and clean vehicles.
Expand access to bilingual EV purchase guidance, with priority to low- to moderate-income drivers with longer commutes so we can achieve the highest emissions reductions and deliver greater financial benefits to the households that need relief from high gas and housing costs.
Provide technical assistance to small businesses, community kitchens, and food banks so they can access incentives for new, energy-efficient refrigeration units that will expand access to healthy, culturally-appropriate foods in underserved communities.
Help other nonprofits access Inflation Reduction Act benefits to acquire the greatest financial benefits from the photovoltaic systems they install with CEC’s Solarize Nonprofit program.
WhAT’S ahead
Spotlight: Electrify Your Life
From electric vehicles and solar power to home heat pumps and all-electric appliances, the Community Environmental Council’s Electrify Your Life service provides one-on-one assistance to single-family homeowners, property managers, businesses, and nonprofits to help make going electric affordable.
Our monthly bill is cheaper, and we’re able to share the savings with our renters. And it’s one more way to move away from oil.”
Alice Maxon
Homeowner and Landlord
Alice Maxon’s 2022 Hyundai Kona EV runs on 100% renewable electricity produced by her home’s solar panels. Photo by Meghan Woodbury.
Although online tools are available, most people don’t have the time needed to track down, research, and apply to all the federal, state, and local programs that offer incentives and support for electrification. The barriers to access these programs are even greater for low-income households and businesses in underserved communities that are often eligible for the largest incentives and financial benefits. Enter CEC’s Electrify Your Life service, specifically designed to assist residents and businesses of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties to ensure that everyone has the best chance to be part of a clean energy future.
Alice Maxon of Guadalupe received valuable purchase guidance from CEC’s team that helped her purchase her first fully electric vehicle. By walking Alice through the different incentives, it became clear that pairing solar and battery storage with her EV would save her even more money. Through what she learned and the incentives she was able to take advantage of, Alice’s entire property, which houses multiple families, now runs on solar power.
Over the next year, CEC hopes to bring this service to scale to help more people like Alice take advantage of the many incentives and benefits of going all-electric.
OUR WORK
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Prescribed grazing is one climate-smart agriculture practice that offers proven strategies for climate threat mitigation. Photo by Shepherdess Land & Livestock.
Our Vision
Climate-smart agriculture can help mitigate and reverse compounding climate threats such as extended drought, extreme heat, and flood. Through collaborations on small- and large-scale carbon farming projects, we are demonstrating that practices such as prescribed grazing, compost application, and cover-cropping can increase carbon sequestration, water infiltration, and biodiversity. CEC is working to accelerate and bring these climate-smart agriculture practices to scale so we can reduce the impacts of climate change, increase the resiliency of our natural and working lands, and create stronger, more resilient food systems in the Central Coast region.
In 2022, CEC:
In partnership with White Buffalo Land Trust, was awarded a climate-smart commodities grant to launch a pilot project that will measure the climate impacts and market viability of the native Western Blue Elderberry.
Collaborated with the California Climate & Agriculture Network, local fire professionals, prescribed grazing practitioners, and rangeland ecologists across California to create a statewide prescribed grazing policy platform that laid the groundwork for California State Senator Monique Limón to introduce SB 675, ensuring prescribed grazing is better integrated into existing wildfire resilience programs and strategies.
Continue to work across our region’s agricultural communities to accelerate the adoption and scaling up of nature-based strategies aimed at drawing down legacy greenhouse gasses.
Establish pollinator habitat across Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties to increase beneficial insect populations and decrease pesticide use.
Scale up compost application on agricultural lands to boost carbon capture and soil health by increasing access to affordable compost and spreading options.
Develop innovative financing models that strengthen collaborations and provide technical assistance and other critical resources to those who are implementing nature-based climate solutions.
WhAT’S ahead
OUR WORK
Circular Economy
Encouraging the public to refill bulk items at shops like Sunkissed Pantry in Santa Barbara is one way CEC is promoting a circular economy model. Photo by Sarita Relis Photography.
Our Vision
Our region has looked to recycling as a landfill diversion solution for several decades—but it’s not enough. CEC is driving progress towards a zero-waste society with circular economy models that turn hard-to-reach waste streams into valuable resources that further reduce climate emissions. Transitioning our take-make-waste system to a closed-loop system of reuse is complex, demanding that we look at how we manage resources, how we make and use products, and what we do with the materials afterward. In order to get there, our focus is on expanding regional food waste reduction efforts and educating and activating the public to support policies that demand reusable, refillable, and legitimately recyclable packing models.
In 2022, CEC:
Successfully advocated for a comprehensive plastic reduction law in the City of Goleta and supported SB 54, a landmark regulation that requires manufacturers to take responsibility for their packaging and to significantly increase recycling percentages by 2032.
Installed six public water stations in the City of Santa Barbara, bringing the total to 121 bottle-filling hydration stations in schools, parks, and public spaces throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. Through these efforts, CEC has accelerated behavior change and reduced
single-use bottle consumption by more than seven million.
Partnered with CalRecycle to provide resources, equipment, and funding to CEC’s Santa Barbara County Food Rescue partner, Veggie Rescue, resulting in the recovery of 663,128 pounds of high-quality food that was distributed to local organizations that feed community members experiencing food insecurity.
Engaged industry re-use solutions leader r.Cup at the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival–its first event in Santa Barbara County–to implement a closed-loop reusable cup system in the beer and wine garden, eliminating more than 5,000 disposable cups.
Push the cities of Carpinteria and Santa Barbara to follow the City of Goleta’s lead and pass laws that promote comprehensive single-use plastics reduction and circular economy policies, providing a model for other jurisdictions in our region and beyond.
Continue to develop closed-loop systems with our climate-smart agriculture partners to turn food that would have gone to the landfill and create greenhouse gas emissions into a valuable resource that is captured, composted, and used in carbon-negative land management.
Continue to fledge the tools and resources CEC developed for our Santa Barbara County Food Rescue program to local government partners now mandated to rescue food and divert organic waste streams from landfills so they can facilitate donations of high-quality, healthy food to organizations that feed our most vulnerable community members.
WhAT’S ahead
Our Partners
120+ Active Partnerships
The Community Environmental Council believes that it will take all of us, working together in new ways, to solve the climate crisis. Bound together by a shared sense of urgency and accountability, we are partnering with businesses, organizations, schools, and governments on specific climate action outcomes to accelerate progress and and build a community of true resilience.
In 2022, CEC partnered with:
- 350.org Santa Barbara
- Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners & Tailors
- Access Clean California
- Adams Elementary School Ocean Guardian Ambassadors
- Association for Energy Affordability
- Asteri Solar
- Be The Change Consulting
- Blue Sky Center
- Blue Tomorrow
- Brave New Us
- Brighten Solar
- Bristol Farms
- Cachuma Resource Conservation District
- California Climate & Agriculture Network
- California Coastal Conservancy
- California Department of Food and Agriculture
- California Solar Electric
- CalRecycle
- CarpEvents
- Carpinteria Children’s Project
- Casa Serena
- Center for Sustainable Energy
- Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)
- Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition
- Central Coast Climate Collaborative
- Central Coast Climate Justice Network
- Central Coast Community Energy
- ChowMatch
- Chumash Casino
- Citizens Climate Lobby
- City of Carpinteria
- City of Goleta
- City of Guadalupe
- City of Santa Barbara
- City of Santa Maria
- City of Solvang
- Clean Power Alliance
- Climate First, Replacing Oil and Gas (CFROG)
- Clinicas del Camino Real, Fillmore
- Cultivate Events
- Domestic Violence Solutions
- Ecology Action
- Electric Drive 805
- Environmental Alliance of Santa Barbara County Museums
- Environmental Coalition
- Environmental Defense Center
- EV Advocates of Ventura County
- Explore Ecology
- Father Virgil Cordano Center
- Food & Water Watch
- Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
- Franklin Neighborhood Center
- FRESA (Food Resilience, Equity, Sustainability, and Action)
- Future Leaders of America
- Gardens on Hope
- Gaviota Agriculture Project
- Gaviota Coast Conservancy
- Girls Inc., Carpinteria
- GRID Alternatives
- Guadalupe Union School District
- Holy Cross School, Ventura
- Independent Living Resource Center
- Isla Vista Community Services District
- Kermit McKenzie Intermediate School, Guadalupe
- La Purísima Concepción
- Lazy Acres Natural Market
- League of Women Voters Santa Barbara
- LegacyWorks Group
- LOACOM
- Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
- Los Padres Forest Watch
- Mercury Press International
- Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)
- MOVE Santa Barbara County
- National Stewardship Action Council
- New House II and III
- Notre Dame School, Santa Barbara
- Ojai Valley Fire Safe Council
- Oniracom
- Our Lady of Guadalupe School, Oxnard
- Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
- Port of Hueneme
- Recurve
- Regeneración - Pájaro Valley
- Regional Priority Plan, Santa Barbara County
- Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program
- Rewiring America
- Rooted Language Justice
- Route One Farmers Market
- San Luis Obispo Air Pollution Control District
- San Luis Obispo Climate Coalition
- Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
- Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
- Santa Barbara Clean Energy
- Santa Barbara County
- Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
- Santa Barbara County Association of Governments
- Santa Barbara County Regional Climate Collaborative
- Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council
- Santa Barbara County Food Action Network
- Santa Barbara County Green Business Program
- Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District
- Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
- Santa Barbara Public Library, Eastside
- Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter of the Sierra Club
- Santa Ynez Chumash Environmental Office
- Sarah House
- Society of Fearless Grandmothers
- Solar for Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH)
- Southern California Edison
- St. Anthony’s School, Oxnard
- St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
- St. Mary’s School, Santa Maria
- St. Raphael School, Goleta
- Sustainable Change Alliance
- Ted Chamberlin Ranch
- The Climate Center
- The EZBike Project
- The Fund for Santa Barbara
- Traffic Solutions
- Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN)
- UC Office of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- UC Santa Barbara
- UC Santa Barbara Central Coast Sustainability Summit
- Veggie Rescue
- Ventura County Air Pollution Control District
- Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance
- Ventura County Resource Conservation District
- Visión y Compromiso
- White Buffalo Land Trust
- Wild Farmlands Foundation
- Wildling Museum of Art and Nature
Our Investors
CEC makes an impact on the long-term health of our region by taking specific actions on the ground, while also working to transform a web of systems to reverse, repair, and protect our climate. Our work is made possible in part by the generosity and support of investors.
Thank you to the following donors who gave generously in 2022 and/or through the 50th Anniversary Protect Our Climate Campaign:
Livable World Legacy Society
Anonymous
Angela Antenore
Sally Warner-Arnett & G. William Arnett
Catherine Brozowski & Steve Conner
Katie Davis
Chris & Bob DeVries
Lee E. Heller
Sharyn Main & James Hodgson
Jane & Terry Honikman
Nancy & Karl Hutterer
John & Karen Jostes
Jean Kaplan
Bruce & Michelle Kendall
Charles D. Kimbell
Marc McGinnes
Jessica & Michael McLernon
Paul Relis & Fanny Pearce
Dennis Thompson & Lois Phillips
Michel Saint-Sulpice
Sea Forward Fund
Ilene Segalove
Karen & David Telleen-Lawton
Matt Parisi & Sigrid Wright
$1 Million+
James S. Bower Foundation
Patricia and Paul Bragg Foundation
Zegar Family Foundation
$500,000-$999,999
Hutton Parker Foundation
Dorothy Largay & Wayne Rosing
Judy Stapelmann
$250,000-$499,999
Anonymous
Sheila & Tom Cullen
Natalie Orfalea Foundation
Suzanne & John Steed
Michel Saint-Sulpice
Yardi Systems
$100,000-$249,999
Anonymous
Anonymous in honor of Karl Hutterer
Mary Becker
Leslie Sweem Bhutani & Ashish Bhutani in honor of Pat & Derrell Sweem
Diane Boss
Emily, Dan, Casey & Willow Engel
G. A. Fowler Family Foundation
John C. Mithun Foundation
Mithun Family Foundation
Charles & Betsy Newman
Elizabeth Weber
$50,000-$99,999
Jenny Cushnie & Dennis Allen
Katie Davis
Errett Fisher Foundation
Carolyn & Andrew Fitzgerald
Living Peace Foundation
Sara Miller McCune
Montecito Bank & Trust
Mosher Foundation
Maryanne Mott
Stacy & Ron Pulice
Santa Barbara Foundation
Sea Forward Fund
Ken & Jo Saxon
Anne Smith Towbes & Michael Smith
Peter Schuyler & Lisa Stratton
$25,000 - $49,999
Sally Warner-Arnett & G. William Arnett
Marguerite & Richard Berti in honor of Hal Conklin
Bye Bye Mattress
Deanna & Gene Dongieux
El Gato Channel Foundation
Tisha Weber Ford
Kristin & Richard Hogue
Nancy & Karl Hutterer
Heidi Jensen Winston & Bonnie Jensen
Charles D. Kimbell
Carrie Towbes & John Lewis
Barbara & Albert Lindemann
Elliott MacDougall
McCune Foundation
Jessica & Michael McLernon
Betty & Mike Noling
SAGE Publishing
Schlinger Family Foundation
Stacy & Scott Semel
Lanny & Holly Sherwin
Carolyn Cogan & Jules Zimmer, in memory of Jules Zimmer
$5,000-$24,999
Geoff Green & Seraphim Albrecht
Randy Bassett
Chris & Wendy Blau
Joyce & Roland Bryan
Nicole & Chandler Buie
Charla Brown & Robert Burnett
Kathleen Burt
Laura Capps
Eric Cardenas*
CARP Growers*
CASA Magazine*
Cate School*
City of Santa Barbara
Catherine Brozowski & Steve Conner
Cox Communications, Inc.
Crawford-Idema Family Foundation
Jean & Dave Davis
Gwen T. Dawson
Deckers Brands
Del Maguey Mezcal*
Barbara Delaune-Warren
Matt & Nicole Delesalle*
Chris & Bob DeVries
Brad Fiedel & Ann Dusenberry
Edhat*
Judy & Rob Egenolf
Nadra Ehrman
Flying Embers*
Engle Designs*
Dodd & Beth Geiger
Ginberg Family Trust
Martin & Kerrilee Gore
Belle Hahn
Lee E. Heller
Islay Events*
Jasper Eiler & Brook Jensen
JL Foundation
John & Karen Jostes
Karl Storz Imaging
Katie Hershfelt Consulting*
Bruce & Michelle Kendall
Pat McElroy & Bonnie Kerwin
Kind World Foundation
KJEE*
Kopu Water*
Kunin Wine*
Lazy Acres Market*
LOACOM*
Los Agaves*
MarBorg Industries
Ginger Salazar & Brett Matthews
Montecito Journal*
Jeff Moody
Carla Frisk & Jeffrey Newton
Oniracom*
Outhwaite Charitable Trust
David N. Pellow & Lisa Park
Patagonia
Ivette Peralta
Paul Relis & Fanny Pearce
Pharos Creative*
Kathleen Powers
Randy Solakian Estate Group
Rincon Broadcasting LLC*
The Roddick Foundation
The Santa Barbara Independent*
Satellite Santa Barbara*
Eva & Bryan Schreier
Herb Schulte
Simple Feast*
Randy Solakian
Tana Sommer-Belin
Southern California Edison
Judi Stauffer
Seth Streeter
Bill Toliver*
Tomchin Family Foundation
Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation
Trinity Episcopal Church
Sherry & James Villanueva
Voice Magazine*
WWW Foundation
Melissa & Tobin White
Scott & Andrea Wilson*
Write Kinda Girl*
Cliff & Crystal Wyatt
Katherine & Stephanie Yeung
Gail Osherenko & Oran Young
$1,000-$4,999
750mls*
Advanced Veterinary Specialists
Jill & Corey Anderson
Joseph Andrulaitis
Anonymous
Deirdra Hade-Arntz & William Arntz
B&B Foundation
Amy & Glenn Bacheller
Carol Black
Steve Brillhart
Bristol Farms*
Brittingham Family Foundation
Victoria Hendler Broom
David Brosnan
Mary & W. Elliot Brownlee
Bunnin
Julie Caprito
Claude & Susan Case
Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition
Malinda & Yvon Chouinard
Marcia & John Mike Cohen
County of Santa Barbara
Natalie de Picciotto
Janet DeBard
Daniel & Anne Diamond
Winnie Dunbar
Isa Hendry Eaton & Darryl Eaton
Ashley & Justin Egerer
Jill & Samuel Ellis
Emmett Foundation
Environmental Defense Center
Claire & Lars Fackler
Julie Hendricks & Brian Fahnestock
Mary Firestone
Fisker Group
Good Lion Hospitality*
Sharon Granoff
Greater Good Insights*
Mitchell & Lisa Green
Jay Grigsby
Denis Hayes
Lindsay Helmick
Hendricks-Felton Foundation
Jeremy Hilton
Jennifer & Rick Hulford
Thomas & Lisa Jackson
Stefanie Sohn Jackson
& David Jackson
Mary & John Johnson
Sharyn Johnson
Johnson Ohana Foundation
Edward A. & Martha B. Kaufman
Patricia Kelley
Pippa Hames-Knowlton & Christopher Knowlton
Marsha Kotlyar & William Harris
Kirsten Liske
Los Padres Forestwatch
M & M Foundation
Siri & Bob Marshall
Gloria & John McManus
Whitney Abbott & Murray McTigue
Kristin & Brian McWilliams
Sally MacIntyre & John Melack
Sharon Metsch
The Mildred E. & Harvey S. Mudd Foundation
Clare Miner-McMahon
Kyle Murray
Dennis Thompson & Lois Phillips
Russell Radom
Carrie & Mike Randolph
Jessica Risko Smith
Lisa Murphy Rivas
Phyllis de Picciotto & Stan Roden
Marjorie & Richard Rogalski
Root Dynamic*
RRM Design Group
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
Santa Barbara Nissan
Laurie Ashton & Lynn Sarko
Marine Schumann
Michael Seabaugh
James Semick
Autumn Shelton
Shannon Simpson*
Anita & Eric Sonquist
Analise Maggio & Ben Sprague
Toad & Co.
Joan & Edward Tomeo
Josephine Tournier Ingram
Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin
Molly & John Vowels
Elizabeth & Nate Wagner
Michelle Weinman
Pegeen & Kevin White
Nancy Wilkinson
Rance Wall & Deborah Williams
Juliet Wine
Heidi Jensen & Ronald Winston
Laura & Geof Wyatt
Zohar & Danna Ziv
$100 - $999
Ann Adams
Sherri & Ronald Adler
All Good*
Brier & Kent Allebrand
Rachel Altman
Angela Antenore
Dr. Richard Appelbaum
Debbie Arnesen
James Arthur
Elisa & Joseph Atwill
Tim & Monica Babich
Brandon Bartlette
Jeremy Bassan
Mary P. Baum
Jeremy Becker
Deborah Bettencourt
Tracey Bird
Megan Birney
Lisa Bass & Thaddeus Bordofsky
Carol Cottom & Bruce Bradtmiller
Joan Ariel & Ellen Broidy
Elizabeth Brown
Geoffrey & Jennifer Brown
Melissa Brown
Jennie Burkart
Pam & John Bury
Julie Lopp & Don Bushnell
Luke Swetland & Stacey Byers
Marlon Calliste
Gail & John Campanella
Lois Capps
Erin & Christos Celmayster
Maxine Chadwick
Mally Chakola
Danuta Charwat-McCall
Paul & Anne Chestnut
Donna Massello-Chiacos & Lee Chiacos
Mischa Chillak
Samuel & Darlene Chirman
Kate Christensen
Jeanie-Marie Price & Erik Christensen
Nancy Weiss & Marc Chytilo
Ambia Clark
Barbara Clark
Marian & Rabbi Stephen Cohen
Irene Cooke
Marni & Michael Cooney
Mary Cooper
Jenny & Zack Cramer
Debra Geiger & Eliot Crowley
John & Maria Cunningham
David Cutler-Kreutz
Carla D’Antonio & Tom Dudley
Michael Dean
Peter Castellanos & Danyel Dean
Mimi DeGruy
Ruth & Roland Dexter
William Dillon
Rita Donahoe
Jennifer & Max Drucker
Karen Roberts & Bradley Dyruff
Nicole & Grant Eads
Sally & Terry Eagle
Sylvelin Edgerton
Kate Edwardson
Liam Ekhardt
Maureen & David Ellenberger
Robert Else
Ellyn Cole & Scott Engelman
Hannah-Beth Jackson & George Eskin
Judith Favor
Lucy Firestone & Hayden Felice
Gina & Mark Fennell
Susan & Bill Ferguson
Joyce & Terry Fernandez
Beverly Holley & Philip Fine
Lena Firestone
Richard Flacks
Chuck Flacks
Christen Foell
John Forrest
Charles Forslund
Carole & Ron Fox
William Frost
Mark Funk
Tish & Dan Gainey
Jonathan & Patricia Gartner
Stephanie Glatt
Robert Goettler
Penelope & Andrew Gottlieb
Jessica Graham
Bill Boyd & Sandra Grasso-Boyd
Barbara & Jon Greenleaf
Natalie Greenside
Lillian Hahn
Frances Hahn
Jane Hahn
Benjamin Halpern
John Hankins
Ashley Harcourt
Bethany Harkrider
Gregg Hart
Barbara & Roy Harthorn
Candy Hedrick
Van Henson
Talina Hermann
Jennifer Hernandez
Mary Heyden
Kelly Hildner
Gary & Helena Hill
Barbara Hirsch
Valerie Hoffman
Ashley & Kyle Hollister
Jean Holmes
Homelight Inc.
Jane & Terry Honikman
Mary E. Howe-Grant
Mary Jacob
Rao & Vijaya Jammalamadaka
Mikki Jee
Emily Jensen
Jean & Ivor John
Dennis Johns
Emily Johnson
Rachel Johnson
Paula Burnham & Charlie Johnson
Susan Johnson
Andreana Jones
Joanie & Colin Jones
David P. Jones
Richard Kaplan
Martin Keary
Ellen & John Kelley
Hugh Kelly
Lucia Kiel
Kathi & Jeff King
Jonah Klein
Sara Kvaas
David Landecker
Mike Lazaro
Amanda & Travis Lee
Jennifer LeMay
Lori Lenz
David & Janice Levasheff
Betty Little
RT Livingston
Ruth Loomer
Elizabeth Mann
Kristy Manning
Cynthia Manzer
Jennifer & Blake Markham
Carole & William Marks
Marylee & Jerry Martin
A. Michael Marzolla
Karen & Clarence Mayes
Nancy McConnell
Marc McGinnes
McKesson Foundation
Riva McLernon
Terry & Antoinette McQueen
Anne & Hale Milgrim
Dawn Mitcham
Lois Mitchell
Kevin & Lana Mohtashemi
Richard Mokler
Kathy & Wayne Morgan
Sheila & Gordon Morrell
Allen Mosher
Nancy Mulholland
Judith Muller
Bill & Joan Murdoch
Liam Murphy
Jeanette & Robert Mustacich
Steve Nelson
Joan Newman
Noozhawk*
Michelle Nunes
Nancy Franco & Donald Olson
Wendi Ostroff
Michael Palmer
Carrie Kappel & Carl Palmer
Ted Rhodes & Joan Pascal
Constance Penley
Lanette Perry
April Peterson
Gregg Peterson
Alex Petronakis
Kathryn McNeal Pfeifer
Jeff, Mandy & Pierce Phillips
Michelle L. Pickett
Sarah Pizzaruso
Dolores & William Pollock
Caroline & Dave Powers
Ali Quivey
Susan Van Atta & Ken Radtkey
Kim Reece
Sylvie Rich
Marsha & Alan Roberson
Anthony Rodale
Burt Romotsky
Jason Saltoun-Ebin
Arjun Sarkar
Peter Sawyer
Christiane Schlumberger
Carol Schwyzer
Ben Curtis & Shelby Scudder
Ed & Shaylyn Seaman
Lilyan Cuttler & Ned Seder
Richard Segan
Dana Seltzer
James Selzler
Harriet Sharp
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Don Simons
Michael & Natali Smith
Lynne Sprecher
Rebecca Stebbins
Adam Stempel
Danielle & Bret A. Stone
Jason Cobb Storck
David Swanson
Napper Tandy
Gail & David Teton-Landis
Jenna Tosh
Stacey & Chris Ulep
Gene & Amy Zak Urban
Donna Ventura
Paul Wack
Alana Walczak
Kathy Scroggs & Lawrence Wallin
Preston Walters
Mari Warner
Lorraine M. McDonnell & M. Stephen Weatherford
Weinberg-Stein Family
Bettie Weiss
Lauren Weithorn
Corey Welles
Sherri West
Sheila White
Deanna Solakian Williams
Charlotte & Ron Williams
Das Williams
Dr. Christel Wittenstein
Dj & Diana Wold
Janet Wolf
Sara Woodburn
Roberta & Robert Wright
Matt Parisi & Sigrid Wright
Jill Zachary
Julia Zaratzian
Carey Zimmerman
Zoey Philanthropic Fund
*Indicates all, or a portion, was an in-kind gift.
Our Leadership
Board of Directors
CEC’s Board of Directors represents a diverse cross-section of our community who demonstrate a deep commitment to nurturing local solutions to climate change impacts. As the official governance body of the organization, the Board oversees the Chief Executive Officer, establishes the operational budget and audit, and provides strategic input to ensure we fulfill our mission.
Photo by CEC.
PRESIDENT
Barbara S. Lindemann
Emerita Professor, Santa Barbara City College
1ST VICE PRESIDENT
Charles Newman
Partner, Dentons U.S. LLP (retired)
2ND VICE PRESIDENT
Nadra Ehrman
Director of Sustainability, The Towbes Group
SECRETARY
Christine DeVries
Community Leader
TREASURER
Christopher Knowlton
President, Knowlton Brothers Inc. (retired)
Chandler Buie
Community Leader
Jon Clark
President, James S. Bower Foundation
Carolyn Fitzgerald
Community Leader
Laura Francis
Director, Sea Forward Fund
Geoff Green
Chief Executive Officer, Santa Barbara City College Foundation
David Jackson
Zegar Family Foundation
Elliott MacDougall
Chief Executive Officer, Weymouth Development Group
Pat McElroy
Executive Director, The Project for Resilient Communities
Ivette Peralta
Director of Annual Programs, Future Leaders of America
Peter Schuyler
Natural Lands Management Consultant, Community Leader
Kathy Yeung
Chief Executive Officer, ViQi Inc.
Photo by Sarita Relis Photography.
CEC Staff
Sigrid Wright, CEO / Executive Director
Dom Aranda, Climate Programs Assistant
Michael Chiacos, Director of Climate Policy
Cristina Czochanski, Food & Energy Associate
Alhan Diaz-Correa, Climate Justice Associate
Nicole Eads, Director of Development
Melissa Gomez Fontaine, Development Officer
Elizabeth Fry, Accounting Manager
Cameron Gray, Director of Climate Mitigation
Jillian Hall, Communications & Marketing Associate
Jennifer Hernández, Director of Climate Justice
Em Johnson, Director of Climate Resilience
Kathi Brennan King, Director of Climate Education & Leadership
Emily Kopp, Development Assistant
Juan Lares, Energy & Transportation Associate
Sean McArthur, Energy & Transportation Associate
Natalie McGuire, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison
Gabriela Morales, Climate Justice Fellow
Jeanie-Marie Price, Director of Communications & Marketing
Rosheil Ramirez, Climate Education & Leadership Associate
Ana Rico, Embajadora de la Comunidad/Community Ambassador
Michael Sarrassat, Energy & Transportation Projects Manager
Farah Stack, Climate Policy Associate
Molly Taylor, Climate-Smart Agriculture Program Manager
Kristen Weiss, Communications & Marketing Associate
President’s Council
CEC’s President’s Council includes CEC founders, past directors, and esteemed friends who have devoted a significant amount of time, talent, and treasure over decades, working to protect our communities for generations to come.
Dennis Allen, Dennis Allen Construction (retired)
Diane Boss, Retired, Community Volunteer
Laura Capps, Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors
Dave Davis, Past CEC Executive Director (retired)
Katie Davis, Sierra Club Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Carla Frisk, Consultant (retired)
Karl Hutterer, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (retired)
Ivor John, Hydrogen Power Partners, LLC
John Jostes, Interface Planning & Counseling Corporation (retired)
Bruce Kendall, School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Charles D. Kimbell, Allen & Kimbell, LLP (retired)
Maryanne Mott, Rancher & Philanthropist
Mike Noling, Community Leader (retired)
Paul Relis, Senior Vice President, CR&R Environmental Services Incorporated
Michel Saint-Sulpice, Architect (retired)
Leanne Schlinger, Entrepreneur
John Steed, Law Professional (retired)
Elizabeth Wagner, Village Properties
Sally Warner-Arnett, Community Leader
Partnership Council
CEC’s Partnership Council is made up of community leaders from across the region who act as ambassadors to collectively advocate, network, and promote the work and impact of the organization.
CO-CHAIRS
Claire Fackler, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michelle Weinman, Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray LLP
Karen Brill, Sustainable Change Alliance
Linda Cheresh, Citizens Business Bank
Kristin Hogue, Community Leader
Cooper Matthieson, Community Volunteer
Jessica McLernon, Randy Solakian Estates Group
Michelle L. Pickett, Yardi Systems, Inc.
Wendy Read, Wendy Kilbourne Read Consulting
Stan Roden, Documentary Filmmaker
Holly Sherwin, Community Leader
Bret A. Stone, Paladin Law Group LLP
Jacob Tell, Oniracom
Sally Terrell, Community Leader
Deborah Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara
CEC thinks big and thinks long-term, and demonstrates results over and over again.”
Jon Clark
President, James S. Bower Foundation
Photo by Matt Dayka.
To change everything, we need everyone.
Are you with us?
The climate crisis is daunting and destructive. But together, we can solve it. Join us in taking courageous action to put a stop to climate chaos, and reimagine how we live on our planet.
VISIT CEC’s ENVIRONMENTAL HUB
Join us at our new 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art collaborative space at 1219 State Street in Santa Barbara, designed to be an epicenter for community activism, education, entrepreneurship, media, and art. Learn more at envirohubsb.org.
ENGAGE IN CLIMATE ACTION
Become a CEC Climate Steward or attend our Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival, Climate Action Summit, and the dozens of webinars, speaking engagements, and collaborative community events we organize each year. Subscribe to our email list and follow us on social media to stay updated on event dates and details.
INVEST IN A CLIMATE-SAFE FUTURE
Your support is critical. Join us in this urgent work by donating today. When you invest in CEC’s proven track record and award-winning team, you help ensure a climate safe future for your children, grandchildren, and neighbors. Give at cecsb.org/donate.