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  • Citizens for Conservation - Prairie restoration, preservation and conservation education in the Barrington area of NE Illinois
  • McHenry County Defenders - education, recycling, wildlife preservation, ecological restoration and protection of McHenry County, Illinois
  • Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE) is a national, non-profit organization working to improve the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental issues, through creation of a new, non-regulatory environmental science and education agency
  • Grand Prairie Friends (GPF) is an organization of volunteers from all walks of life who share a commitment to preserving and restoring tallgrass prairie in east-central Illinois.

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.