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Santa2024 Barbara Permaculture Network 4th Annual Eco Hero Award
ECO HERO AWARD 2025 Honoring Albert K. Bates
The Seven Deadly Sins to be presented by Santa Barbara Sunday, March 23rd •6:30pm-9pm Symphony 16 perennial good-natured optimist, butSwentzell hard-core 2024 4th Annual Eco& Hero Award Honoring Bill &AAthena Steen, Roxanne realist, Albert Bates has been an advocate for the Earth Honoring Albert K. Bates Natural Building Pioneers and its ecosystems for over 50 years. Eco Heroes
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Biochar Pioneer/Global Ecovillage Network UN Delegate, Right Livelihood Award recipient, Permaculture Teacher & Designer, Environmental Lawyer & Author
Biochar Pioneer/Global Ecovillage Network UN Delegate, Right Livelihood our environmental challenges mount, Award recipient, Teacher &As Designer, Albert Permaculture Bates is the author of more than 20 books from wildfires to hurricanes & more, one Environmental Lawyer & Author solution by mightAl be Natural Building including Climate in Crisis (forward Gore); Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Cool Down; The Paris Agreement, the Best Chance celebrates its 5th Annual Eco Hero Award We Have to Save the One Planet We’ve Got; A perennial good-natured optimist, butBuilding hard-core with Natural pioneers, Bill & Athena Steen,& & Roxanne Swentzell. The Albert BiocharBates Solution-Carbon Climate realist, has been an Farming advocate for the Earth All three hail from the American Southwest, Change;. latest book is andHis its ecosystems forRetropopulationism: over 50natural years. they are builders, authors and acclaimed artists, each one devoted Clawing Back a Stable Planet from Eight Billion andto the beauty of the land, with a commitment to Change (2023). Albert Bates is the author of more than books building with care of20 the earth as a priority. Recognizingby howAl we build affects future including Climate in Crisis (forward Gore); generations, they share skill & knowledge Cool Down; The Paris Agreement, the Best Chance on how to build sustainably, affordably & less likely We’ve to burn in wildfires, We Have to Save the One Planet Got;using only earth, clay, sand, & straw. The Biochar Solution-Carbon Farming & Climate Come & be inspired! Change;. His latest book is Retropopulationism: Reception Follows Clawing Back a Stable Planet frominEight Billion and5th ECO HERO AWARD SUNDAY MARCH 23 2025 6:30 pm the Lobero Courtyard Lobero Theatre Santa Barbara with Reception Change (2023).
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Cover photo by Isaac Hernández de Lipa
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In This Issue
SWENTZELL
Yessenia Marroquin
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Interim Chief Operations Officer
Graduate
New Chair
Art Passage Through Shadows by SNagham Naim
Community News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7, 14, 15 Harlan Green: Economic Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 John Palminteri: Community Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Community Market & Legals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-23 Galleries and Art Venues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-27
C a l e n d a r. . 1 6 - 1 7 Movie Listings....9
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Theatre Review: Parents in Chains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Nancy Black: Five Year Collaboration. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chief Detective Kristina Perkins graduates from FBI National Academy 6
South Coast Chamber names Randy Berg new Board Chair
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Brush & Beyond to open at Art Walk 25
Find out more about Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics www.SBClinics.org 844-594-0343 Cover story see pages 4-5