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SANTA BARBARA CLIMATE NEUTRAL TASK FORCE

TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES
  • JOINT STATEMENT BY THE SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY ON THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS: "Whereas global climate change represents the single most important environmetnal problem that humanity has ever faced..."[more]
  • VISIONING SESSION - POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS: 4 presentations from the Climate Neutral Visioning Session, October 8, 2005 [more]
  • PARTNERS: Several groups are committed to working together towards a climate neutral tri-county area [more]
  • DAY OF CLIMATE NEUTRALITY: Around Earth Day 2006, the Santa Barbara CCN Task Force will organize a Day of Climate Neutrality, where they will estimate, reduce, and offset all greenhouse gas emissions for one 24-hour period in Santa Barbara. [more]
  • TASK FORCE BIOS: (COMING SOON) - SEE [BREN TEAM BIOS]

BREN CCN LINKS, DOCUMENTS & RESOURCES

  • BREN CCN PROJECT: Visit the Bren CCN Homepage [more].
  • CLIMATE EXPERTS AT BREN: Over the past year, as part of CCN, many leading experts on climate solutions have presented at the Donald Bren School. [more]
  • DOCUMENT & RESOURCES: Documents & resources to plan or climate neutrality at the campus. city, county, and state levels. [more]
  • OTHER STUDENT GROUPS & CAMPUS EFFORTS IN CA: Students at UC - Santa Barbara are connecting to efforts across the state. [more]

 

 

 

 

 

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

 

  • Santa Barbara Climate Neutral Visioning Session
    Dan Worth    , NAELS, Campus Climate Neutral (ppt)
    Betty Seto, Bren CCN Team, Project Update (ppt)
    Henry Stern, Stop Global Warming.org, Virtual March (ppt)
    Bob Ferris, Community Env Council, Fossil Free by '33 (ppt)

 

 

 

PARTNERS & AFFILIATIONS

 


The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Program on Goverance for Sustainable Development (GSD)


Community Environmental Council
Energy Program
Fossil Free By '33

Climate Mitigation Services

UCSB Environmental Affairs Board

 

 

CLIMATE NEUTRAL SUMMIT & VISIONING SESSION
EXPERT CLIMATE SPEAKERS
(download a Word document of detailed speaker bio's)

  • Dennis Aigner, Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (bio)
  • Marty Blum, Mayor of the City of Santa Barbara (bio)
  • Jean Blois, Mayor of the City of Goleta
  • Amy Luers, Climate Impacts Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists (link)(bio)(ppt)
  • Johann Sabbath, California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC); Undergraduate student, UCSB, Global Studies Program (ppt)
  • Oran Young, Founder, Program on Governance for Sustainable Development (GSD) at Bren; Chair, University of the Arctic, Board of Governors (bio)(ppt)
  • Dan Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab, UC-Berkeley (bio)(ppt)
  • David Casentini, D&R International (ppt)
  • Tamlyn Hunt, Director, Energy Programs, Community Environmental Council (bio)(ppt)
  • Gueta Mezzetti, Program Manager, DoD Renewable Energy Assessment
  • Dan Worth, Executive Director, National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS)(Info)
  • Tim Grabiel, Environmental Justice Attorney, NRDC
  • Durwood Zaelke, Co-Founder, GSD at Bren; Director, Office of the Secretariat, International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enrocement (INECE) (bio)
  • Joel Levin, California Climate Action Registry (bio)
  • Dan Jacobson, Legislative Director, Environment California (bio)
  • Bob Wilkinson, Adjunct Assistant Prof.; Water Program Director, Bren School/Lecturer, UCSB Environmental Studies Department (bio)
  • Matthew Stilwell, Founder, GSD at the Bren School (TBC)(bio)
  • Danielle Grabiel, California Campaign Coordinator, Campus Climate Neutral; Bren 2002 MS
  • Richard Heede, Author, Oberlin 2020 study, Formerly of RMI
  • Matthew St. Claire, UCOP

 

 

STUDENT GROUPS

PAST UNIVERSITY COMMITMENTS

  • California State University will reduce energy consumption by 15% by 2004 (from Climate Campaign website)
  • Stanford University will “meet or beat” the Kyoto protocol target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions of by 7% below 1990 levels by 2007.(from Climate Campaign website)
  • The University of California system just made a huge commitment, buying 10 megawatts of solar power for the system increasing by 20% nationwide solar energy generation.(from Climate Campaign website)
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