Get the antidote to climate anxiety
With the climate crisis now an everyday backdrop punctuated by gigafires, megadroughts and scorching heat domes, many are living with a lingering sense of worry and fear. As many notable psychology journals show, one antidote to climate anxiety can be taking matters into your own hands with visible, local action and collaboration.
Collaborating with CEC’s dedicated, boots-on-the-ground staff, you see real local change occur. This is CEC’s secret sauce – we take complex, global problems, break them down into manageable pieces, and collaborate to apply them locally.
Some of our latest efforts include:
An Indigenous Burn Project with the Chumash community to weave age-old wisdom into the region’s modern fire prevention techniques.
On-site demonstration projects with farmers in Ventura, Buellton, and Los Olivos to pull carbon back into the soil, protecting both land and profits.
Bilingual guidance to help low-income drivers save money and reduce air pollution by switching to electric vehicles.
Can we count on you to help our community move past anxiety and reverse the impacts of climate change?
With a 50 year track record, our team knows how to take immediate action and how to stay the course for long-term change.
This is the decade that will define how climate impacts us for years to come. Please join us.
In health,
Sigrid Wright, CEO/Executive Director
Community Environmental Council
Other areas where CEC makes an impact on the Central Coast
Clean Energy
Challenge: Creating electricity for our cities, homes, and businesses is fossil fuel intensive, but it doesn't have to be
Progress: 1.35 million people across the tricounties now live in a Community Choice Energy area – most with a default to 100% renewable energy
Clean Transportation
Challenge: Transportation accounts for 50% of local emissions
Progress: Central Coast electric vehicle ownership is 4x higher than the national average
Climate Leadership
Challenge: To rapidly build local solutions, we need to activate local climate volunteers of every age, gender and culture
Progress: 32,130 community members activated in 2021 at in-person and virtual events, including a new cohort of certified UC Climate Stewards who are helping lead transformative local solutions
Food Security
Challenge: Nearly 40% of food in our region never gets eaten, instead going to landfills where it decomposes and emits methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than CO2
Progress: 226+ tons of high quality prepared food diverted from landfills since 2018 to go to people facing hunger