350 Santa Barbara will host a community discussion about regenerating urban environments. The conversation will feature UCSB Professor John Foran as well as UCSB students involved in Eco Vista. The project will be discussed with the community and they will have the opportunity to share their ideas on how to make our region a better place.
Register now for the event https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-2pqjIoHNcBvrKIoyVz3zmnC9aP87ad.
“‘Eco Vista’ was the name chosen in 2017 by a group of students at the University of California, Santa Barbara acting together with long-time community members to describe their vision of turning their rather unusual community of Isla Vista into an ecovillage in the next 10 years. Unique because 23,000 people live together in an area of .54 square miles, with 80 percent of them between the ages of 18 and 24,” said Foran.
Eco Vista was formed with the idea “that together we might create a place that is life-affirming for all its inhabitants and that might inspire others elsewhere — particularly young people in their own communities — to use their imaginations to create the innovative future communities we all want to live in, right now.”
Paul Hawken, an environmentalist writes in “Regeneration: Ending Climate Crisis in One Generation”:
“What becomes of civilization in this century will be determined by what happens in urban and suburban environments. … If there is to be a regenerated earth, if one day greenhouse gases are reduced and drawn down from the atmosphere, it will happen because of the practices, policies, and leadership of citizens and cities.”
The Community Climate Conversations series will highlight local climate solutions for agriculture, wildlife conservation, and more in March and April. In May, the series will conclude with a discussion of Hawken’s book, “Regeneration.”
350 Santa Barbara and The Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara donated the book. Copies of it are available at Santa Barbara or Goleta libraries.
For more information, please email the 350 Santa Barbara Steering Committee [email protected]
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