Green Housing & Living

Feb 7th	Healthier Food Coming to Santa Barbara Area Schools
2008	Categories: Green Housing & Living, School News & Information

School districts in Santa Barbara are changing school menus in an extended effort to provide healthier food to our children.  They are also trying to combat a well recognized obesity epidemic among young people in our country.   The Director of Nutrition Services says, "the old menu was made up of foods that were high in salt, fats and sugars."  To apply some of these changes, the districts are also reaching out to local growers and markets to provide a supply of fresh produce. View Schools in the Entire Santa Barbara Area View Local Video Broadcast on Healthier Food in Santa Barbara Schools Further Reading: Santa... Read more

Tags: healthier food in santa barbara schools, santa barbara schools

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Feb 6th	Treat your Kitchen’s Home to Food from The Santa Barbara Farmer’s Market
2008	Categories: Green Housing & Living, Santa Barbara Local / Things to Do

The local Santa Barbara Certified Farmer's Market is simply a huge blessing and treat for all those who live in the Santa Barbara area.  Founded in 1983, the local Farmer's Market was established to provide California farmers with the ability to directly access a market for their agricultural products to the local community.  For the Santa Barbara community, it has provided a tasty and entertaining way to help support are local farmers, the environment, as well as put great food into our homes.  Prepare yourself to come across several unusual fruits and vegetables you have never seen before.  Innovative growers come up with many... Read more

Tags: downtown santa barbara, Goleta, santa barbara community, santa barbara farmer's market

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Jan 16th	Santa Barbara Races Ahead on Energy Efficient Real Estate Construction Guidelines.
2008	Categories: Green Housing & Living, Santa Barbara

I recently read this article in The Independent (An excellent free local paper in Santa Barbara providing well written weekly updated information on local News, Events, People, Arts, Real Estate etc.) that should excite anyone that is concerned for our future generations.  The guts of the article are about: 1) Santa Barbara City Council being a leader in energy efficient standards 2) The commitment in Santa Barbara to reduce energy use and greenhouse emissions for all new residential real estate construction as well as retrofits 3) Architecture 2030 Challenge "Some say governments move too slowly and that bureaucracies can impede progress, but just recently the Santa... Read more

Tags: energy efficient, real estate, Real Estate News, Santa Barbara

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