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  • Clean Washington Center - A Washington State program to develop markets for recycled materials, providing technical assistance to manufacturers and best practices for recycled materials use.
  • The Environmental Exchange, Whatcom county, WA - References on recycling, environmental businesses, government agencies and public interest groups in Whatcom county, Washington

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.