A few student members of UCSB's Environmental Affairs Board will be headed to Copenhagen, Denmark next week to participate in the UN's pivotal meeting to discuss a new international climate protocol before the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
We wish the student envoy safe travels and hope they have a wonderful experience!
For more information on the UC Climate Change Conference, please visit their web site: http://www.cop15.dk/
UPDATE: Check out the EAB students' blog about their experience in Copenhagen: http://eabatcop.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
White House Youth Clean Energy Forum - Webcast
Information provided in an email from UCOP:
On December 2, 100 youth leaders from around the country will join Obama's top advisor - including Sectretary of Energy Chu, Secretary of the Interior Salazar, Secretary of Labor Solis, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson - for a forum at the White House to discuss the clean energy economy and how young people can play a critical role.
The forum will be streaming live on the White House web site: www.whitehouse.gov/live and on Facebook from 4:00-7:00 pm Eastern time (1:00-4:00 Pacific).
Please spread the word to any students, staff, or faculty interested in this issue (I am under the impression you are able to participate in the discussion via the webcast).
On December 2, 100 youth leaders from around the country will join Obama's top advisor - including Sectretary of Energy Chu, Secretary of the Interior Salazar, Secretary of Labor Solis, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson - for a forum at the White House to discuss the clean energy economy and how young people can play a critical role.
The forum will be streaming live on the White House web site: www.whitehouse.gov/live and on Facebook from 4:00-7:00 pm Eastern time (1:00-4:00 Pacific).
Please spread the word to any students, staff, or faculty interested in this issue (I am under the impression you are able to participate in the discussion via the webcast).
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Climate Action Plan Posted
The UCSB Climate Action Plan has been approved by the Chancellor's Sustainability Committee and is now posted for public viewing.
Please click here to read the CAP report.
Please click here to read the CAP report.
Rain Barrel Sale
Just in time for the rainy season:
The County and City of Santa Barbara are hosting a rain barrel sale on Saturday, November 21 between 10:00 am-2:00 pm in the SBCC Lot #3 (across from Ledbetter Beach). The barrels are $50 including tax (cash or check only). They plan to sell out, so show up early!
More information: http://www.sbwater.org/rainbarrel/
The County and City of Santa Barbara are hosting a rain barrel sale on Saturday, November 21 between 10:00 am-2:00 pm in the SBCC Lot #3 (across from Ledbetter Beach). The barrels are $50 including tax (cash or check only). They plan to sell out, so show up early!
More information: http://www.sbwater.org/rainbarrel/
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Call for Papers: Oil + Water: The Case of Southern California
As part of its "Oil + Water" series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UC Santa Barbara will be holding a two-day conference on "Oil + Water: The Case of Southern California" on April 9 and 10, 2010.
The conference will explore how these two elements have created and transformed the history and culture of Southern California; speakers may address both elements, or focus on either oil or water. Topics can range widely and could include the history of oil in Southern California; culture’s role in Southern California’s use of oil and water; surfing; car culture; marine life and coastal development; suburbia and urban planning; water use and ownership; oil production and the depletion of water reserves; oil, water and the politics of race in Southern California; Southern California after oil; oil, water and agriculture in Southern California; global networks of exchange in oil and water that involve Southern California; and eco-activism in Southern California. Papers should be 20 minutes long.
Application: please send a cv and one page abstract to oilandwaterUCSB@gmail.com.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2010
The conference will explore how these two elements have created and transformed the history and culture of Southern California; speakers may address both elements, or focus on either oil or water. Topics can range widely and could include the history of oil in Southern California; culture’s role in Southern California’s use of oil and water; surfing; car culture; marine life and coastal development; suburbia and urban planning; water use and ownership; oil production and the depletion of water reserves; oil, water and the politics of race in Southern California; Southern California after oil; oil, water and agriculture in Southern California; global networks of exchange in oil and water that involve Southern California; and eco-activism in Southern California. Papers should be 20 minutes long.
Application: please send a cv and one page abstract to oilandwaterUCSB@gmail.com.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2010
No Impact Man Premier
No Impact Man
Tuesday, November 10 @ 7:30 pm
Campbell Hall
In research for his book, newly self-proclaimed environmentalist and author Colin Beavan vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year: no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food and no more material consumption. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. “Proof that ‘eco’ and ‘entertainment’ aren’t mutually exclusive” (Variety), this charming film provides a candid account of one family’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.
Tuesday, November 10 @ 7:30 pm
Campbell Hall
In research for his book, newly self-proclaimed environmentalist and author Colin Beavan vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year: no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food and no more material consumption. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. “Proof that ‘eco’ and ‘entertainment’ aren’t mutually exclusive” (Variety), this charming film provides a candid account of one family’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
City, Country, Industry, Agriculture: On the Road with Roy Stryker
In conjunction with the IHC’s Oil + Water series, the University Art Museum presents:
City, Country, Industry, Agriculture: On the Road with Roy Stryker
A photography exhibit on view at the IHC and Cheadle Hall 2217 through winter term
Between 1935 and 1950, one person helped compile a vast compendium of more than 340,000 highway images. He was not a photographer, but rather an economics professor named Roy Stryker. An innovative educator, Stryker employed documentary photography to bring a sociological edge to his classroom instruction. In 1935, Stryker left his post at Columbia University to "create a pictorial encyclopedia of American agriculture" under the auspices of the government’s Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration). For Stryker agriculture included images of the life around it. His archive, with pictures by such noted photographers as Dorthea Lange, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn, became a portrait of the nation during the Depression.
Seven years later, the political tide turned and New Deal programs waned, Stryker accepted a similar position with a very dissimilar entity: Standard Oil of New Jersey (SONJ). This corporate shift, occupied Stryker until 1950. At SONJ, Stryker was not content to serve as a public relations lens for the large corporation; he instructed his coterie of artists that they were, "photographing America" and "recording history." Indeed, by the end of his seven year employment with Standard Oil, Stryker coordinated 70,000 documentary images that often only tangentially referenced the oil industry. Bus stops and bridges, tourist courts and diners joined images of filling stations and fresh asphalt. Together the images, by noted photographers such as Esther Bubley, Gordon Parks, and John Vachon, capture the culture of the road: the highway, a region described by Professor Ulrich Keller as, "neither city nor country, industry nor agriculture, but the conveyer belt between the two."
The photographs are on view in the IHC’s Crowell Reading Room and Research Seminar Room, and near the offices of the College of Letters & Science (Cheadle Hall 2217), come from the vast photographic holding of UC Santa Barbara’s University Art Museum.
City, Country, Industry, Agriculture: On the Road with Roy Stryker
A photography exhibit on view at the IHC and Cheadle Hall 2217 through winter term
Between 1935 and 1950, one person helped compile a vast compendium of more than 340,000 highway images. He was not a photographer, but rather an economics professor named Roy Stryker. An innovative educator, Stryker employed documentary photography to bring a sociological edge to his classroom instruction. In 1935, Stryker left his post at Columbia University to "create a pictorial encyclopedia of American agriculture" under the auspices of the government’s Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration). For Stryker agriculture included images of the life around it. His archive, with pictures by such noted photographers as Dorthea Lange, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn, became a portrait of the nation during the Depression.
Seven years later, the political tide turned and New Deal programs waned, Stryker accepted a similar position with a very dissimilar entity: Standard Oil of New Jersey (SONJ). This corporate shift, occupied Stryker until 1950. At SONJ, Stryker was not content to serve as a public relations lens for the large corporation; he instructed his coterie of artists that they were, "photographing America" and "recording history." Indeed, by the end of his seven year employment with Standard Oil, Stryker coordinated 70,000 documentary images that often only tangentially referenced the oil industry. Bus stops and bridges, tourist courts and diners joined images of filling stations and fresh asphalt. Together the images, by noted photographers such as Esther Bubley, Gordon Parks, and John Vachon, capture the culture of the road: the highway, a region described by Professor Ulrich Keller as, "neither city nor country, industry nor agriculture, but the conveyer belt between the two."
The photographs are on view in the IHC’s Crowell Reading Room and Research Seminar Room, and near the offices of the College of Letters & Science (Cheadle Hall 2217), come from the vast photographic holding of UC Santa Barbara’s University Art Museum.
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