Community Links
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1   Link   First Friday Santa Cruz
The First Friday Art Tour is a Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Arts event, managed in conjunction with the participating Art venues. Through the support and generosity of the participating venues we are able to put on monthly First Fridays and provide a detailed brochure and promotion each month for the ultimate Art Tour experience. This is a free event for enthusiastic Art Goers and an opportunity for our many talented Artists to exhibit and promote their work.
2   Link   EcoCruz
Santa Cruz County Environmental Guide

EcoCruz is the premier site that links you to information, organizations and events that help you adopt sustainable lifestyles – at work, at home and at play in Santa Cruz County.

Connect to others working on environmental, climate and ecology issues in our community. Come back often to become a super steward of our environment and to improve the sustainability of our region and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary!
3   Link   Think Local First Santa Cruz
Think Local First - County of Santa Cruz is a network of independent and locally owned businesses and community organizations joining together to promote economic vitality and preserve the unique character of our community.
4   Link   Green Drinks Santa Cruz
Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks.

We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network.
5   Link   Ecology Action
Ecology Action is a nonprofit environmental consultancy delivering cutting edge education services, technical assistance, and program implementation for initiatives that assist individuals, business and government to maximize environmental quality and community well being.

Since 1970 Ecology Action has combined municipal, foundation, and private funding to establish conservation programs, prove their effectiveness financially and operationally, and establish each program as a permanent community resource.
6   Link   Transition Santa Cruz
Our mission is to be a catalyst for relocalization—the development of local self-reliance in food, energy, transportation, media, systems of care, economy and the arts—through a broadly inclusive community-building process.

Climate change and a declining energy supply present us with great challenge and great opportunity. Our response taps the creative genius of the people of Santa Cruz, to facilitate an intentional transition to a resilient, equitable local economy and community. In contrast to dismal predictions of social dislocations due to declining fossil fuels, we can imagine our community quality of life actually improving—if we unite to plan and implement the transition.
7   Link   Santa Cruz Green Business Network
Our goal is to support businesses with a focus on being green, regardless of length of time.
If you are interested in this network please don't just join here on this Meetup site come to our
Tuesday morning meetings. We invite businesses that walk their talk when it comes to being green.
We do not tolerate 'greenwashing'.
We have one representative of each category of (green) business. One painter, one building contractor etc.