Share Santa Barbara: Lucidity Festival 2020 - Live Music & Art Camping Weekend (November 6 - 8) with your friends. Instead, SB Earth Day is hosting a livestreamed festival called #TogetherWeEarthrise beginning at 12:00 p.m. PT on Earth Day. And the famous Apollo 8 Earthrise photo (shown above). 11:45 am – sign on. Nelson came up with the idea for a national day to focus on the environment after he witnessed the ravages of a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969. This Monday, April 20, hundreds throughout the Stanford community and beyond will join a virtual discussion celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, kicking off Earth Week at Stanford. 12:00 pm – Virtual Climate Uprising – this is the main rally for the day – featuring inspiring speakers, local artists and more. Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, events for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 will be digital. Save Santa Barbara: Lucidity Festival 2020 - Live Music & Art Camping Weekend (November 6 - 8) to your collection. Senator from Wisconsin. As the UC Santa Barbara community prepares for our annual Commencement ceremonies, we encourage graduation candidates, family, friends, as well as participating staff and faculty to review the important information and resources on this website. Earth Day was actually established on April 22, 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a former U.S. Every year since then, SB Earth Day has held an Earth Day festival in Santa Barbara, Calif. — but the group obviously had to cancel 2020's celebrations due to the pandemic. Thank you to everyone who attended – and special thanks to 350 Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Public Library and our speakers, Irene Cook, Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino … And most notably and personally for us, the 1969 Santa Barbara … Earth Week 1970. Coronavirus: Solano Resource Conservation District hosting week of virtual Earth Day activities ... place off the coast of Santa Barbara the previous year. Charles Paddock Zoo celebrates Earth Day with virtual videos Duration: 01:05 4/23/2020 More From KSBY Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo, CA Visit the official Earth Day site to learn about the world's largest environmental movement and what you can do to make every day Earth Day. Aquarium Of Pacific To Host Virtual Earth Day - Long Beach, CA - Kids and adults at home can tune in to fun guest lectures, animal appearances and "classes" by age group. April 22, 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the original Earth Day. Earth Day will take a surprising turn this year by relocating to the internet. If you can only come to one session, make it this one. Including the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring".

If you missed Wednesday's virtual community forum, Our Climate Emerg... ency During the Pandemic, you can visit our website to watch the recording and connect with the resources that came up in conversation during the forum. Main Session – Virtual Rally 12-1 pm. In 1969, a blowout on an oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara sent 3 million gallons of crude oil into coastal waters, catalyzing an environmental movement and Earth Day. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Thousands of people around the world are currently participating in the free virtual Earth Day EcoChallenge including over 100 individuals in Santa Barbara. Many events and actions led to that first Earth Day. Since then, Earth Day has been a day … MCs: Aisha Wallace-Palomares, SanDiego350 and Leah Spinner, Sunrise Movement San Diego. Speakers