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Since 1970, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) has incubated and innovated real life environmental solutions that directly affect the California Central Coast. Their current work advances rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis – including ambitious zero carbon goals, drawdown of excess carbon, and protection against the impacts of climate change. At CEC, building community resilience is at the center of everything they do.
Join Kris Kington Barker as she speaks with guests from the Community Environmental Council (CEC), Sigrid Wright, CEO, Kathi King, Director of Outreach and Education, and Michael Chiacos, Director of Energy and Climate Programs as they discuss CEC’s Repair, Reverse, Protect initiative to stop putting more emissions into the atmosphere, reverse carbon buildup through sequestration in natural and working lands, and protect for climate disasters through climate resiliency.
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Source: Kathi King for Community Environmental Council
#CelebrateClimateLeadership, a virtual Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival dedicated to inspiration, community building, and climate action will be held Thursday, April 22 to Saturday, April 24. Hosted by the Community Environmental Council (CEC), the free livestream event will be available to view at SBEarthDay.org.
The Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival, which is fully online again this year due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, will feature conversations with climate leaders, musical performances, art contests, inspirational speakers, and opportunities for viewers to learn how they can lean into action.
Each day will celebrate a key area where climate leaders are stepping up to do critical work to combat the climate crisis:
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In the near future, they will convene a formal strategy group comprised of staff and board members. “We are working as hard and as diligently as we ever have,” Yahyavi said. “We need the financial support of donors more than ever.”
CALM s re-opening planning is coordinated by their Senior Management Team.
CALM is conducting most services via telehealth at the present. However, they have clinicians available in all three offices (Santa Maria, Lompoc, Santa Barbara) to provide in-person services when clinically warranted.
As a trauma recovery service provider, CALM will always emphasize in-person services whenever safe and appropriate. However, they recognize that telehealth services will likely be part of their service delivery model going forward. As such, CALM is beginning discussions about how a tailored hybrid model of mental health service provision can best meet the needs of clients in 2021 and beyond.
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Participants will also gain insight into how they can take part in the transformative work CEC and other groups are doing on the Central Coast to address and alleviate climate impacts.
To jumpstart the new course, CEC is gathering a 15-person pilot group that will meet February-April. CEC will then open the course up to the public in summer of 2021, with a plan to hold two or three sessions per year moving forward. Once in-person learning can resume, a weekly in-person meeting to supplement the online learning modules will be held at CEC’s new offices, 1219 State St.