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  • Gaia Sajtoszemle - Three-weekly environment news rewiew in Hungarian language.
  • Independent Ecological Center - IEC supports and strengthens environmental NGOs, improves enviromental education, and lobbies in the legislative process.
  • The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe - The REC's mission is to promote cooperation among diverse environmental groups and interests in Central and Eastern Europe to act as a catalyst for developing solutions to environmental problems and to promote the development of a civil society.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.