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  • Biosphere 2 Center - We are a center for research and education. There are hotel facilities and tours for tourists. We have a field school for college students, and hold other courses for K-12.
  • Environmental Education at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - Featuring such topics as fire ecology, history and Great Basin ecosystems that have been teacher tested by the National Science Teachers Association, the activities in this homepage have been used sucessfuly in classrooms in Arizona.

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.