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Minneapolis Community Development Agency -- MCDA - MCDA -- the neighborhood redevelopment arm of Minneapolis, cleaning up pollution, reclaiming inner city housing, and fostering sustainable development.
Minnesota Planning / Environmental Quality Board - The Minnesota Sustainable Development Initiative aims to preserve and enhance Minnesota's long-term social, economic and environmental health.

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.