Over 100 community members gathered at Tres Vientos Ranch on Saturday, May 25th for Sustainable Table, a celebration of local farms, organic food, school gardens, and Explore Ecology programs. Tres Vientos is the beautiful home of Alan and Lisa Parsons. The evening began with a Parsonics [...]
Join Explore Ecology for an amazing studio experience with Alan Parsons, one of rock’s most talented and prolific musicians, engineers, and producers. Twenty guests will join Alan in his studio on Saturday, May 25th at 5:30 pm for a Parsonics Studio Demo and Experience at Tres Vientos Ranch, [...]
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2019 Explore Ecology Environmental Stewardship Awards. We received a lot of inspiring nominations this year and are excited about the many teachers, students, clubs, and school support staff who are doing important environmental work in Santa [...]
2019 started off with a big change here at Art From Scrap. The first month of the year, our offices doubled as a construction zone as we installed new floors. With that all a distant memory we could not be more excited to share our renovated workshop space with you. Thank you to [...]
Do you know someone who loves the environment, speaks for the plants and animals, and has made a difference in a school, a classroom, or in our community? Nominate them for the 3rd Annual Explore Ecology Environmental Stewardship Awards, which recognize local leaders who promote environmental [...]
by Julia Keane, Explore Ecology Environmental Educator On any given day at one of our school field trip beach clean ups, I hear at least one student comment on how many cigarette butts are filling their orange buckets. The record stands at 250 in one 15 minute beach clean up in the span of half [...]
Wrapping presents is one of my favorite holiday traditions and this year I am challenging myself to only use recycled or reuse items. After five minutes looking around Art From Scrap I had so many ideas, I wanted to share some of them with you. The easiest way to start is just [...]
Reading, writing, arithmetic, and wheat! Children in three Santa Barbara schools will soon grow, harvest, and mill their own wheat, thanks to an innovative new program called Farm to Toast. A partnership between Explore Ecology and the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) Food [...]
It’s National Farm to School Month! Join Explore Ecology in celebrating the connection between children and local farming, gardening, and healthy food. Started in 2010, Farm to School Month is celebrated in all 50 US states, with over 23 million students participating in farm to school [...]
The 34th Annual Coastal Cleanup Day on September 15, 2018 was a huge success. This year over 1,149 volunteers at 27 sites from Rincon Beach Park to Guadalupe Dunes came together to clean up Santa Barbara’s waterways. A total of 4,502 pounds of waste, 3,530 pounds of trash and 971 pounds [...]
