Well- why not give the Chumash the Channel and let them operate Sable? Bring out the money making machines! I’m positive they would find a eco way to get that product directly to their gas station #WINWIN
Right, I was excited about that.
The grocery store "compostable" bags are awful and take a very long time to actually degrade.
Suggestions:
1. Take your own bags to the Farmer's Market and to the grocery store
2. Ziploc bags: use, rinse out/dry, reuse, repeat until time to recycle at Planet Protectors behind Ablitts.
2. Alternatively, I've found that reusable mesh bags keep veggies, fruit, etc. fresher longer than plastic. I like Lotus brand bags that are BPA-free and machine washable.
No and no....
FOLLY is one of the most adorable shops in Santa Barbara and the owner Alyssa is darling! A fantastic place for gifts!
La Arcadia or the Parking Lot behind the parking lot
Folly is SO gorgeous! Alyssa is SUCH a good buyer and represents so many LOCAL artists as well as artists from Mexico, Italy, France, Peru, and India (as well as many other lovely countries around the world). She also carries vintage and antiques and has a SWEET children's section with such a charming and thoughtful book selection. Folly is my "go to" for gifts. It's such a magical shop! And always decorated so beautifully for the holidays. Team members Julie and Lynn are DELIGHTFUL! Beautiful photos, Erik! p.s. Alyssa's clothing selection is TIP TOP! She carries very unique brands like Auntie Oti, Injiri, And for good... , Sula and many others that I love. Oh, and the BEDDING!!! I could go on and on...how LUCKY we are to have such a LOVELY boutique in the neighborhood!
It's because people just look at whether there is a D or R next to the persons name rather than looking into their policies, voting records, and accomplishments in office. Our state legislatures approval rating is about 41%, yet their reelection rate is 94%. Worse on the federal level with a 15% approval rate and 95% reelection rate (source chatgpt). Crazy, and why I nearly always vote against the incumbent.
Is Noe cafe going to be a deli or just another diner?? No sandwich counter like they said before?
8oz water bottles? How many of those have you ever seen on the side of a road? I guess this is just to feel better about themselves passing a law that doesn’t do anything.
Every time something like this comes up I see a lot of the same complaints directed at elected officials at the local, state, and sometimes even federal level. I’ve noticed that a lot of people find it very easy to complain yet very difficult to act. Stop acting like you can’t do anything. If you don’t like your elected officials, change them. If you don’t like the laws, change them.
Love it, John, felicidades.
It's not the cemetery, the University Club, or Casa Blanca....
Unfortunately most of city council doesn't legislate what's best for Santa Barbara, they legislate what's best for their reelection prospects.
casa blanca
"Don't overthink" giving away public land? The "greater good" of subsidizing market rate housing and paying the property taxes for this developer? Say what?
Looks like the entrance to the cemetery
What a joke.
I'm so embarrassed for the city Council.
We're going to review all of this, yet continue to promote massive littering along the ocean with tens of thousands of micro confetti released for the fiestas, and on top of it not clean it up.
Zero consciousness, self reflection or integrity.
SB City would rather focus on things that don't matter while everything deteriorates around us. Let's not focus on any law-enforcement or basic common decency. lets talk plastic,
Dont overthink Paseo Nuevo being given away for housing. Residential development down there will make the biggest meaningful impact towards a State St turnaround. If AB walks, Paseo Nuevo will turn into yet another city run white elephant. The State St debaclle but on sterioids. More money spent on expensive out of area consultants and their reposrts that the city will not put into action. Asks made by the public and city council members that dont understand economics and development. A downward spiral blackhole. We can argue to open State St back up or not, but looking this gift horse in the mouth instead of looking at the greater good will be unrecoverable for at least a decade. There is no perfect, choose progress and keep moving forward one step at a time.
FFS!! Open State Street!
I compost all my green waste, so I appreciate the compostable green veggie bags,
I agree that plastic bags HELP KEEP VEGGIES FROM WILTING!
The University Club
Agreed, this ban is a fart in a hurricane which will have no measurable impact on microplastics in our environment. We have much bigger issues to tackle that produce actual results for people in SB. I'll also add, it's endless regulations like these that make the cost of living and doing business in Santa Barbara so damn high. Businesses are being micromanaged by people who've never ran a business.,
Nothing to see here folks. Just a group of inept do-gooders who think their job is to rule over you and tell how to live your life. Not too many things more evident of this social challenge than buying a cart full of plastic covered packaged goods and being denied a proper receptacle to carry them to your car. Which is also made of plastic...
On almost every measure Santa Barbara is failing city and yet the City Council thinks their duty is to rule over your life rather than tend to the business of a city with less than 100k people. Almost every single thing the city manages is a failure. Every thing except their pension. They seem pretty competent in making sure that your grand kids will be paying for their retirement as they continue to rack up hundreds of millions in debt to pay for past liabilities. Past liabilities!
Fire every single one of these incompetent nincompoops. They are hired to manage the business of the city not to rule over us like overlords. They all need to be reminded of their actual duties. Start with a pink slip and a swift kick out the door and finish with a lifetime of shame. They deserve the ridicule and the pain.
Nope....
This is petty and a waste of local government’s time.
If I don’t put my produce in plastic bags, it wilts very quickly. I shop at farmers market weekly and keeping stuff in plastic bags can get my produce incredible longevity in the fridge. The smelly “compostable” bags at the grocery stores don’t offer the same benefit either. Leafy greens and herbs wilt quickly and the bags stink. When I had a CSA box I ended up processing everything upon delivery and putting anything that could wilt into ziploc bags which use more plastic than the whisper thin bags at farmers.
I say this as a hardcore environmentalist with a minor in environmental science. This is a waste of time and energy. Let’s have our local government put their energy and enforcement and our tax dollars toward issues that are hyper local.
I am far more concerned about the proliferation of plastics in general life (people are wearing plastic, walking on plastic, sleeping under plastic blankets, etc. etc.) than carry out bags (and who doesn’t reuse many of them for various purposes?) and produce bags.
