Please enjoy this video recording of the May 22, 2019 GCC Public event “Santa Barbara Transitions to Transportation Integration” focusing on Santa Barbara’s transportation future. Speakers: Robin O’Hara, Mark Bradley, Ernesto Paredes, and Gregg Hart. Panel Moderated by Rinaldo Brutoco. Location: Belmond El Encanto Hotel, Santa Barbara.
Archives for May 2019
Global Citizens Club Meeting: Santa Barbara’s Transportation Future
We were delighted by the response to our May 22nd Global Citizens Club meeting focusing on Santa Barbara’s Transportation Future. With attendance reaching almost 100 people, it clearly demonstrated the historically vigorous community interest in finding transportation solutions that will work well for everyone and strategies for investing in new modes to quickly transition to […]
Some Good News on the Fracking Front
By Robert Perry For all of us following the onslaught of oil and gas proposals and attempts by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to open every acre of federal land in California to fracking, the sheer volume of battles can be daunting. I attended and spoke at the BLM public meeting at SBCC on […]
Using Today’s Mass Transit System: A Case Study
By Robert Perry and Kristy Jansen In order to gain first-hand experience of our local transit system in Santa Barbara, Robert Perry (the Academy’s Director of Energy Research), and Kristy Jansen, (the Academy’s Chief of Staff and Media Producer) resolved to only use mass transit at least one day a week during the month of […]
Transitioning from Absolute Autonomy to a Multi-Modal World
Our lifetimes are marked by rites of passage, many of which revolve around personal autonomy and agency. As a baby, we crawl and then learn to walk. Later, we are given a tricycle and then a bicycle. Who doesn’t recall getting their first bicycle? In one fell stroke, a child’s range of exploration is expanded […]
