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  • Environmental Information Center - EIC is an organization founded in November 1994 to combat environmental misinformation and help strengthen grassroots support for environmental protection.
  • Mitch's Music and Environmental Action Homepage I have set up my homepage to serve as a bulletin board where I post action alerts from envirolink and pnews, as well as local issues and happenings. I maintain pages for local groups CARR, Protect Our Woods, Citizens Opposed to PCB Ash (COPA) and Bloomington Environmental Health Project.
  • Save the Oaks - Students, staff protesting oak destruction for the state water project, on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA campus
  • Stop the Ahmanson Ranch development Web page - Ahmanson Ranch, the headwaters for Malibu Lagoon, is scheduled to become a 6,800 resident housing tract within the next year. Here is how you can help stop this development. California.

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.