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  • Save the Dunes Council - Dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Indiana Dunes Since 1952
  • Sefton Coast Life Project - European Life Funded project to develop a conservation strategy for the Sand Dunes of the Sefton Coast

    Save the Dunes Council
    444 Barker RD.
    Michigan City, IN 46360

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.