Energy and Climate Initiatives in Santa Barbara

Peak Moment 101: Santa Barbara is serious about lowering carbon emissions. Guided by a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions study, they're adding solar panels to city buildings, requiring lower energy usage for new buildings, switching to biodiesel and hybrid vehicles, and giving free bus passes to downtown workers. City councilmember Das Williams urges citizens to push officials to make substantive (i.e. funded) changes to mitigate the effects of peak oil and climate change. [www.santabarbaraca.gov]

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[Mechman064]

Seeing all this coming, I moved my job into public transit. There's a program coming up where specially painted buses on certain routes arrive only a few minutes apart, so people won't have to wonder when the next bus is coming. I don't know about making the bus completely free though. Homeless people would tend to ride them all day and that might drive the average jo off the bus. Maybe a pass system though... I like the idea of making it safer to ride a bike. Sometimes it's downright scary.

[kickflipjr]

I like the idea of letting people use the bus for free. I might consider giving up my car if Pittsburgh would do that.

[oldhacks]

You know about Mike Gravels proposal to put up 5,000,000 wind mills and get the country onto hydrogen trains and

youtube com/gravel2008

I'm sick of being an anarchist having to walk a mile to get an inch with how our countries economics works.