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  • Association for Research and Environmental Aid - AREA is a NGO dedicated to environmentally sustainable development
  • Economic Reform Australia Homepage - E.R.A. is a nonprofit organization concerned with sustainable development, sustainable economics and financial reform. It liaises with like-minded organizations.
  • FEISEAPNET - The Federation of Engineering Institutions of South-East Asia and the Pacific cooperating in the joint pursuit of sustainable development.

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.