David McAfee

Condoms to Save the Environment- Endangered Animal-Themed Prophylactics Distributed Free

No mammal population has ever grown to as great a size or consumed as many resources as human beings do today, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) announced on January 27, 2010. More than 6,700,000,000 of our...

Some Santa Barbara Fire Survivors Are Choosing to Rebuild Their Homes Greener and Safer

Some Santa Barbara Fire Survivors Are Choosing to Rebuild Their Homes Greener and Safer When Santa Barbara is featured in the national news, it is far too often because of our dangerous wildfires. The most recent examples include...

Rainy weekend ahead of Santa Barbara residents

Beginning on December 10th, 2009 and continuing perhaps until Monday, the city known for its stable weather and little rainfall is seeing multiple showers as a result of various storms colliding in the Pacific. In addition to the rainfall, Santa...

Additional environmentally friendly parking finally available in Isla Vista Downtown

In addition to the many improvements and renovations to Pardall Road this year as part of the Isla Vista Master Plan, Isla Vista saw the introduction of a solar-powered parking structure located at the Northwest corner of the intersection...

Media source in Isla Vista takes small steps towards a cleaner earth

Zak Weinberg, Chief Editor and Founder of Ole Today, had a vision for an environmentally friendly news publication in Isla Vista and Santa Barbara. When he created OleToday.com, it was just a few articles a week being indexed online...

Urban Forest Report calls for an overdue program to plant and manage trees in Goleta

On Wednesday November 18th, 2009 the City of Goleta met in a town hall setting with various citizens and community leaders to discuss the “State of the Goleta Valley Urban Forest Report.” The report discussed a project to...

Volunteerism surges in Santa Barbara county before the holidays

Over one-hundred members of the Ocean Hills Church in Santa Barbara gathered this past Friday, November 20th, in order to help various groups in Santa Barbara; organizations that received assistance by the volunteers include the Transition House, the Rescue...

Oversight committee anticipates slow progress for Measure 'A'

Measure A was an initiative passed in 2008 designed to fund "SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ROAD REPAIR, TRAFFIC RELIEF AND TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MEASURE". This legislation, powered by a 1/2 cent transportation sales tax that already existed from...

Santa Barbara leads the way in saving money and the environment

The city of Santa Barbara is no stranger to saving the environment; as we have seen in the past, Santa Barbara and the surrounding areas have always been hotbeds for political, ecological, and humanitarian actvism and demonstrations. Santa Barbarians are...

University of California, Santa Barbara regents approve another increase in tuition fees

The University of California, Santa Barbara regents approved yet another fee increase as a result of University budget cuts on Thursday 11/19/2009. This hike in undergraduate fees came in spite of numerous protests and demonstrations by students...

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