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Labels: earth day, Environment, Oil Spill, Santa Barbara

Labels: earth day, Ecology, Environment, offshore drilling, Oil Spill, Santa Barbara

Labels: disaster, gulf coast, Louisiana, offshore drilling, Oil Spill

is getting into the oil gushing cleanup action. No...really. Mr. Waterworld meets oilywaterworld.

Labels: Kevin Costner, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Science, YouTube

Labels: Oil Spill, Santa Barbara

We're only thinking about easing automobile traffic. We're not thinking about the "traffic" passing by in the Santa Barbara Channel. Dolphins. Sharks. Fish. Lobsters. Crabs. Sea Lions. And, the most amazing of them all.....the whales!



Oil drilling and spills not only destroy the local economy and the various neighborhoods in town....they also harm our beloved neighbors in the sea.

Sorry to get a little "preachy"....but this is a hot button issue and not many consider the wider effects of our inability to conserve more, use less and go for "quick fixes" to our problems.

Labels: Oceans, Oil Spill, Santa Barbara, Whales, YouTube

From Santa Barbara..."ground zero" of Earth Day celebrations. (and rated #10 Best Green City in America by Country Home.)

Ecological disaster brought reality check. Crude oil blasted nine stories into the air on Jan. 28, 1969, from a pipeline that blew out in the Santa Barbara channel. For the environmental movement, this disaster was the spark that launched Earth Day...

When the Santa Barbara pipeline burst 39 years ago, crude oil flowed for 10 days, eventually covering an 800-mile square area with a dark sheen. The oil even silenced the tide. With the viscous oil melded to it, the waves no longer lapped at the shore. Instead, they landed with a heavy thud . Bridgeport Connecticut Post

The story goes that Earth Day was conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson after a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after that horrific oil spill off our coast in 1969. He was so outraged by what he saw that he went back to Washington and passed a bill designating April 22 as a national day to celebrate the earth. - CEC

Santa Barbara NewsPress Editor Thomas Storke:

Never in my lifetime have I ever seen such an aroused populace at the grassroots level. This oil pollution has done something that I have never seen – it has united citizens of all political persuasions in a truly nonpartisan cause.”

U.S. President Richard Nixon:

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Go out and hug a tree, ride a bike, take a deep breath, walk through a forest, listen to the birds. Show Mother Earth how much she is appreciated.

Labels: earth day, Ecology, Environment, Environmental, Oil Spill, Santa Barbara

Crab Station
Originally uploaded by santa barbarian.

Trouble in Crab Heaven

...Commercial boats were scheduled to set their crab pots this coming Wednesday for Thursday's opener that traditionally supplies Dungeness for the holiday demand. Because of the fuel spill, that opener might be in question.

...Collins is just as worried about the spill's long-term effect on the bay, which is a nursery for young Dungeness crab.

"Right now, the bay is loaded with baby Dungeness. As that fuel moves down the water column, it could devastate crab numbers for years to come." - SFGate

Labels: Dungeness Crab, Oil Spill, San Francisco