Santa Barbara Earth Day Celebration 

 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival

Alameda Park
Santa Barbara, CA
sbearthday.org
Free
A program of the Community Environmental Council, and has been for over 40 years. One of the oldest, largest such celebrations in the world came about as the result of an environmental disaster in Santa Barbara.

Alameda Park
Santa Barbara, CA
Established in 1970, Earth Day's conception is attributed to a Santa Barbara event.  Senator Gaylord Nelson visited SB after a major oil spill off along the Santa Barbara County coast in 1969. Outraged by what he saw, he passed a bill designating April 22 as a national day to celebrate the earth.

Santa Barbara Earth Day has become one of the best known such events in California. This well-attended event sprang out of a concerted effort—Community Environmental Council was  created out of the Santa Barbara oil spill event, making Santa Barbara the birthplace of the environmental movement. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 and by 1990 the Community Environmental Council began hosting the annual celebration of living green.

Santa Barbara has grown its green scene with original programs, companies and organizations.