UC Santa Barbara organizations are hosting Earth Day events throughout this week, showing how individual sustainability ...

Fifty-six years ago, a disaster off the coast of Santa Barbara sparked the creation of Earth Day, a movement that continues to ...

When the first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, the founders — U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and activist Denis ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.- Cloudy conditions didn’t keep people away from attending the Earth Day Festival. In 1970 Earth Day was ...

From the daily newsletter: why we should be in the streets; and Pope Francis’s tangled relationship with Argentina.

Earth Day, a monumental feat, but today, we have never been more divided. I apologize for the doom and gloom, but that's the ...

Widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Earth Day, Santa Barbara’s involvement began with the devastating 1969 oil spill off ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, marks Earth Day by reminding listeners of its origin in 1970, ...

Among the things that triggered the first Earth Day was a massive oil spill off Santa Barbara on January 28, 1969. A damaged ...

The Community Environmental Council and its festival producer, CarpEvents, are thrilled to bring the Santa Barbara ...

Former Daily editor-in-chief Jim Wascher '75 writes about the history of Earth Day at Stanford and argues why activism for ...

After witnessing a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson began hatching the idea for what would become known as the world's first 'Earth Day.' The first ...