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  • Environmental Defense Fund - Non-profit organization, 300,000 members. $25.7 million budget in 1994. Supported primarily by member donations and foundation grants. Staff: 163, including more than 60 full-time scientists, economists, and attorneys.
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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.