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  • BauPhysix Studio - BauPhysix researches the interplay between the sun, climate, and architecture in the way buildings are designed.
  • ESS-ACA HOME PAGE - ESS is a small, flexible research company that specializes in Integrated Environmental Information and Decision Support Systems
  • Global 2000 Home Page - The biggest Austrian evironmental non-profit organization leading the campaign against the Slovak nuclear power plant Mochovce.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.