Ecology Action
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Ecology Action is a non-profit
History
Ecology Action was launched on Earth Day in 1970 as an all-volunteer, unmanned recycling donation depot for bottles and cans. Forty years later, the organization has become a leader in California’s sustainability program design and development with active programs focused on driving behavior change in water conservation, energy management, and alternative transportation.
The organization persevered through the conservative backlash of the 1980s—when the state froze over half a million dollars of their grant contracts—and the
In 2009, the organization began to renovate the former Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper building with two other partners.[1] The organization also sponsors Bike To Work Week,[2] inviting over ten thousand students and adults to bike to school and/or their places of work twice a year.
References
- ^ "Anatomy of a deal: How local bidders landed former Sentinel building". Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "All aboard for a ride through the redwoods and the beach". Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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