The Oil Spill That Sparked Earth Day
Thu, Apr 18
|The Community Arts Workshop
Environmental pioneer Marc McGinnes shares his new book In Love With Earth: Testimonies and heartsongs from an environmental elder, on Thursday, April 18 from 6:30 - 8 pm at Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara
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Apr 18, 2019, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
About the event
Environmental pioneer Marc McGinnes shares his new book In Love With Earth: Testimonies and heartsongs from an environmental elder, featuring refreshments, historic images, a student art show and book signing.
A half-century ago, in January of 1969, a blow-out on Union Oil’s Platform A released about 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, covering the coast from Goleta to Ventura and the Channel Islands, killing thousands of seabirds, fish and marine mammals, and fouling beaches and the local economy. Public outrage led to environmental legislation and sparked the modern environmental movement. In Love With Earth: Testimonies and heartsongs from an environmental elder shares an intimate view of a history of advocacy, gratitude and love for the planet, sparked by the 1969 image of Earth as seen from the moon.
Marc McGinnes, co-founder of the Community Environmental Council and Environmental Defense Center, UCSB Professor Emeritus and a founding…
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