Chances are, the word biodiversity makes you do one of two things: either immediately glaze over in a cloud of vague buzzword understanding, or call to mind far-flung exotic locations teeming with rare plants and animals that have little or nothing in common with what’s in your backyard.
This week the Environmental Defense Center and the City of Santa Barbara received more than $350,000 in grant funding for
McKinley Elementary School was named one of the 488 schools in the nation to receive a seven-year, $193,000-per-year grant. The
This week rumors that Carpinteria was levying fines of up to $1,000 for having your dog off-leash in undesignated areas
Jamie Allison discovered this when she decided to start a Santa Barbara women’s triathlon team in 1999 called Moms in Motion, locating 13 other local women who wanted to take part. Leaving the kids with dad or the sitter, the women gathered every Saturday for 12 weeks and trained themselves into the best shape of their lives. They also had several potluck dinners, a few ladies’ nights out, and a lot of quality time away from the nest.
Environmentalist, journalist, sustainable business pioneer, and spokesperson Paul Hawken is one of the founders of the Natural Capital Institute (NCI), an organization dedicated to creating platforms and networks for those in the business of social and environmental change. Hawken is also the author of a number of bestselling and influential books, including The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.
We all know women like chocolate and a good gabfest while men prefer a cold beer and a good video game. Okay, so that’s a cheesy generalization but it does soften you up for today’s hard topic: Men are different than women when it comes to depression.
The dull thud Spot made as he failed to make it through the open window and bounced off the wall was a sound I had not heard before. Yet its source and significance struck me in a sickening instant as I awoke and sprang for the lamp. I had not seen the younger of my two cats for 36 hours. A look outside confirmed my relief that he was home and alive, as well as my fear that something was stupendously wrong.
Demonstrators gathered on the Micheltorena overpass above the 101 Freeway on 5/2 to protest President Bush’s veto of congressional legislation
The Hollister Brewing Company officially opened on 5/6 in Goleta’s Camino Real Marketplace.
