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Day of the Dead More than 1,300 turn out for annual Santa Barbara Museum of Art event
California wildfires cancel out nearly two decades of emissions reductions By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE
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The altar displays a number of memorials created by San Marcos High School students during the Day of the Dead family day at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Sunday.
By NEIL HARTSTEIN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
More than 1,300 people wishing to pay their respects turned out Sunday for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s annual Day of the Dead event, mirroring an interactive altar’s theme of bridges to build their own bridge between this world and the next. “It’s a wonderful feeling,” Patsy Hicks, the museum’s director of education said of Sunday’s turnout. “It felt like a return to people feeling comfortable being together.” For the 33rd year, the museum honored the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a display of altars created by students in the museum’s school and outreach programs and local community groups, including San Marcos High School, Montecito Union School, Quilt Project Gold Coast, SBMA’s Partnership with A-OK After-School Program, and Please see MUSEUM on A4
Carp City Council to consider Safe Parking program for homeless population By NEIL HARTSTEIN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Visitors try their hands at making art during the event.
At left, young artists memorialized their loved ones at the event’s alters. At right, victims of gun violence are memorialized in the altar created by Moms Demand Action.
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The Carpinteria City Council today will consider adopting a resolution for a Safe Parking Pilot program for temporary overnight vehicle parking on public property in the city for homeless drivers who are living in and out of their vehicles. The council will meet at 5:30 p.m. in chambers, 5775 Carpinteria Ave. Staff is recommending the council approve a resolution establishing administrative procedures for the program, and authorizing the city manager to enter into an operating agreement with New Beginnings Counseling Center in an amount not exceeding $94,000 and allocating a FY 2022-23 budget amount of $32,000. “The city and other local agencies annually expend significant resources responding to issues resulting from homelessness and working to connect people experiencing homelessness to resources; most importantly, housing resources,”
staff said in its report to the council. The city collaborates with various agencies and groups to respond to the needs of people experiencing homelessness that live in Carpinteria. These collaborations include street outreach work conducted by County Public Health and Behavioral Wellness, CityNet and Good Samaritan, community volunteers who work alongside City Code Compliance and Law Enforcement staff, and policy/ program level work to acquire funding and organizational capacity to deliver programs that prioritize meeting housing needs, including related support services. This work also includes strategic planning to address homelessness in the region. ln 2019, the city of Carpinteria, along with other Santa Barbara County cities and the County, approved the Phase ll Community Action Plan to Address Homelessness in Santa Barbara County. “In recent past years, as a part of an Annual Report to the Please see CARP on A2
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(The Center Square) – California’s record-breaking wildfire season in 2020 essentially nullified nearly two decades’ worth of greenhouse gas emission reductions, according to a new study. The record-breaking wildfire season, which resulted in more than 4 million acres burned, emitted twice as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as the state’s total reductions over 18 years, a new study published in the journal of Environmental Pollution. “Wildfire emissions in 2020 essentially negate 18 years of reductions in GHG emissions from other sectors,” the study’s authors concluded. The study highlights that between 2003 and 2019, California’s greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 13%, “largely driven by reductions from the electric power generation sector.” But the 2020 fire season alone is “two times higher than California’s total GHG emissions reductions,” researchers found. Researchers also discovered that wildfire greenhouse gas emissions are the second “most important source in the state” after transportation and one that “appears likely to grow with future climate change.” Between 2000 and 2019, the California Air Resources Board that 41% of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory was from transportation. A spokesperson for CARB told the Los Angeles Times that the agency does not consider wildfire
emissions in assessing progress toward greenhouse gas targets because “the targets are specific to human-caused emissions.” He told the Times that this could soon change, however, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said all emissions must be considered to achieve carbon neutrality. California officials have acknowledged that climate change is fueling more intense fire seasons across the state. According to Cal Fire, 15 of the state’s top 20 most destructive wildfires have occurred since 2015. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature have prioritized legislation aimed at curbing the impacts of climate change in the Golden State in recent years. During the most recent session, the governor signed a law requiring California to reach “net zero greenhouse gas emissions” no later than 2045. CARB also announced earlier this year that the state will ban the sale of most gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The study concluded that while wildfire emissions are not routinely reported alongside other emissions sources, “it is still important to track these emissions to ensure near and medium-term emission reduction targets are met.” Researchers also noted that forest management practices that focus heavily on fire suppression than prevention “also likely increases the risk of large, destructive wildfires.” The 2022-2023 state budget included $1.2 billion over two years for wildfire resilience projects, which came on top of a $1.5 billion investment in the 20212022 budget.
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