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  • EnviroDates - is a calendar of important environmental regulatory dates. Use it to keep up with the rapidly changing environmental policies in the United States.
  • Environmental Blog - Insightful articles on the environment, pollution, energy, recycling, climate change and more.
  • Environmental News Network (ENN) - provides daily environmental news, Monday through Friday, updated by 9 a.m. Mountain time. ENN also provides a Library, Daily News archive, Calendar, Navigator and Marketplace.
  • Greenwire - The nonpartisan, daily environmental news summary covering the state, federal and international levels; plus an extensive e-news archive and other online tools.
  • Harvard Environment Network Bulletin Archives - Weekly environmental events for the greater Boston community
  • Living On Earth - News about the environment from National Public Radio, hosted by Steve Curwood.
  • Science and the Environment - Colorful and compelling environmental science news from around the world.
  • Tera & Aqua News - Preservation and sustainable development of Venice and its lagoon. Italy.
  • WorldLYNX - Site dedicated to lynx, the only wild felid that still spans both Old and New Worlds

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.