| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Living a Low-Car Lifestyle | CA - E-bike financing |
As more people turn to bikes for transportation, e-bikes have gained in popularity. They give riders greater range and carrying capacity. For many, an e-bike is a workable alternative to car ownership. But e-bikes aren’t cheap. CalBike is making advocacy for e-bike incentives a top priority in their 2021 agenda. |
| Living a Low-Car Lifestyle | CA - E-bike financing |
As more people turn to bikes for transportation, e-bikes have gained in popularity. They give riders greater range and carrying capacity. For many, an e-bike is a workable alternative to car ownership. But e-bikes aren’t cheap. CalBike is making advocacy for e-bike incentives a top priority in their 2021 agenda. |
| Living a Low-Car Lifestyle | CA - E-bike financing |
As more people turn to bikes for transportation, e-bikes have gained in popularity. They give riders greater range and carrying capacity. For many, an e-bike is a workable alternative to car ownership. But e-bikes aren’t cheap. CalBike is making advocacy for e-bike incentives a top priority in their 2021 agenda. |
| Preparing for Floods, Hurricanes and Wildfires | SB - Homeowner's Guide - Flood |
Santa Barbara County has suffered impacts from several floods throughout the years. Fires in our watersheds can amplify the need to prepare, and prepare early. Fires have impacted watersheds in our County for decades. A burned watershed creates a new dynamic that should heighten everyone’s awareness. |
| Circling Your Economy | UCSB - Chemical Surplus |
UC Santa Barbara’s Surplus Chemical Program reduces chemical waste generated on campus by reusing chemicals instead of disposing of them as hazardous waste. When a laboratory shuts down, moves or no longer needs a specific chemical, the program tries to find a lab that can use the chemical in their research. |
| Circling Your Economy | UCSB - Sustainable Tech Repairs |
Sustained access to quality technology is a basic need on college campuses today - we're here to make that a reality. The UCSB Sustainable Tech Repair Service will provide free minor software and hardware repairs of smartphones, tablets and laptops for UCSB students in two Pop Up repair events in Winter and Spring 2020 in order to reduce e-waste and digital inequalities. The long term goal is to create a technology repair shop for students to bring in their devices for below-market rates, as well as seed a cultural shift towards repair on campus. Check for any 2021 updates. |
| Reducing Your Household Waste | IV - Second-Hand Store Map |
Check out this great Eco Vista student project to help shape your circular economy. To use - click on a number (which represents a cluster of stores) and then on each pin for store details. A big thank you to Jacqueline Schwartz! |
| Circling Your Economy | IV - Second-Hand Store Map |
Check out this great Eco Vista student project to help shape your circular economy. To use - click on a number (which represents a cluster of stores) and then on each pin for store details. A big thank you to Jacqueline Schwartz! |
| Reducing Your Household Waste | IV/UCSB - Household Hazardous Waste |
Find information on the community household hazardous waste collection center, and how to manage electronic waste, |
| Reducing Toxic Products in Your Household | IV/UCSB - Household Hazardous Waste |
Find information on the community household hazardous waste collection center, and how to manage electronic waste, |
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“Cities are the platform for change in our world today. The Cool Block links the challenges facing our planet to the intimate, personal, social scale of the city block. This program starts and ends with the premise and promise—that the individual, household, and neighbors are the way forward in the face of seemingly insoluble global problems.”
