Monthly Statistics Million Dollar Home Raffle Benefit for Teacher's Fund
Reuse is Better
Earth Day 2011
Sustainable Design
SANTA BARBARA REAL ESTATE SNAPSHOT:
January 17, 2011 - February 13, 2011 New listings: 173 Price Improvements: 130 Pending: 93 Closed: 50 (break down:) Sub $1 million: 35 $1-2M: 9 $2-4M: 3 $4-8M: 1 $8M+: 2 *Off Market: 78 Back On Market: 28 *Many properties expire at the end of each calendar year. This is a look at statistics provided through the Santa Barbara Multiple Listing Service over the past month. They include single family residences and condos, from Carpinteria to Goleta.
7th Annual CAF Million Dollar Home Raffle - Enter Today!Enter to win by March 9, 2011 to be eligible for the Early Bird & Bonus Prize Drawings As Realtors with Village Properties who is a Community Partner for this event, the Teacher’s Fund will receive $50 of EVERY $150 ticket sold. Just make sure to mention the TEACHER’S FUND and Wagner and Wilson Team when you call to purchase your ticket, or make sure to download our special ENTRY FORM below!
The Village Properties Teacher's Fund was created to help local Santa Barbara public and private school teachers get the art supplies and educational materials they desperately need, but many time cannot get due to budgetary cuts.
**100% of all Teacher’s Fund donations go directly to our teachers.
Recycling is good, but reuse is better.
Are you ready to save natural resources, save money, and help other people? Then Reuse is for you! This site not only tells you What Is Reuse, but How To Participate in your hometown. Create art from scrap materials like those found in the Artists section. Would you like to give stuff to someone who needs it instead of throwing it away? Look in the Reuse Directory to find a place that accepts it. Love thrift stores and flea markets? The Reuse Directory lists them all in one place.
"Powered By the People" April 16 & 17 The Community Environmental Council (CEC) will host the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival at Alameda Park Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17, 2011. The 2011 theme, “Powered by the People,” is in line with the CEC’s Fossil Free by ’33 campaign and emphasizes the power of daily choices in making Santa Barbara one of the first fossil-free communities in the nation.
The festival will feature approximately 250 exhibitors, a free valet bike parking section that is expected to hold over 1,000 bikes, and the third annual Green Shorts Film Festival. It will also include the festival’s 11th Green Car Show – featuring the largest collection of efficient and alternative fueled vehicles between Los Angeles and San Francisco and the longest-running show of its kind in the country.
The 2010 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival attracted over 31,000 visitors. Widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Earth Day, Santa Barbara’s longstanding environmental reputation attracts national media and celebrity attention. Recent festivals have included stage appearances by Director James Cameron and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.
CEC is once again teaming up with LoaTree (LoaTree.com), an eco-lifestyle company, and New Noise Media Group (NewNoiseSB.com), an entertainment production company, to co-produce the festival.
Begun in 1970, the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival has become the premier opportunity to showcase the latest in green technology and products to the environmentally savvy and affluent residents of California’s Central Coast. For example, the Santa Barbara region boasts one of the top five per capita markets of hybrid sales in the U.S., and is projected by Southern California Edison to be one of the top four markets for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in Edison’s territory.
“This festival is a reminder of our collective accomplishments and the local roots of what is now an international celebration,” said Sigrid Wright, Associate Director of CEC. “Earth Day brings us together to celebrate, recharge and prepare for one of the most important decades in history.”
Wright said that in the wake of the devastating 1969 oil spill off Santa Barbara’s shores, a group of local concerned citizens began talking about a different way of looking at environmental systems. Over the next few years, around the country the environmental movement was born – including the Community Environmental Council, which was incorporated in the spring of 1970. During that time, Senator Gaylord Nelson visited Santa Barbara to view the damage from the oil spill. When he returned to Washington, D.C., he introduced a bill designating April 22 as a national day to celebrate the earth. In CEC’s first act as new non-profit, it hosted one of the first Earth Day celebrations in the country.
(we have endorsed this website before but this link is way cool and worth sharing with EVERYONE!) Dear Yellowpages,
When we were young, we looked to you for all the answers. You faithfully stood by in the kitchen drawer, eager to share your wisdom. Back when a phone was just a phone, you were there to connect the world.
We’ve all grown now, “moved on” as it goes. Well, except you. You’re still there, like a lost puppy on our doorstep, waiting for a master to play. But not so cute. In fact, we’ve gotten a little tired of cleaning up after you. Three times a year, every year, until today.
It turns out you’ve grown up too! You’ve recognized we can get along without you, and for that, we salute you. With the release of your new Opt-out website, you’ve carved a notch of respect in our book.
We can’t say we’ll miss those surprises on our doorstep, but really, truly, we wish you the best. |  | February Green Drinks Tonight!!! Tuesday February 15 6-8pm Pierre Lafond Bistro 516 State Street (805) 962-1455 Eco-grooving with a great group of people. Networking, socializing, making a better world. Bring a friend, let's grow the tribe.
Mayor Helene Schneider will give us a brief update on the "State of the Environment" at 6:30pm sharp...be there. www.greendrinks.org/CA/Santa Barbara to join email:
FOR SALE:
1521 Olive Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Offered at: $1,575,000 Beautiful downtown townhouse. Low energy use home includes radiant floor heating, dual paned windows & quality insulation. Watch the fireworks from the oceanview deck. Ideal upper East location. This spacious home is newly built in 2003, quality throughout, 3br/3ba, gourmet kitchen, 2 car gar + guest spot.
Contact DeAnn for an appointment.
PENDING:
748 Dos Hermanos
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
Price Adjusted to $685,000 Spacious detached home in Villa San Marcos. This 3br 2.5 ba cul de sac home boasts a outdoor patio area, vaulted ceilings, fireplace, french doors off dining area and attached two car garage. affordable HOA dues. Priced below the 2 smaller units that sold in 2010, great deal!
 PENDING: 3952 Foothill Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Price Adjusted to $575,000 Located down a private lane off the main road, this is a great opportunity to buy in the HOPE School district. Approximately 1/5 of an acre in the County of Santa Barbara, the property includes a dozen varieties of fruit trees, a towering redwood, a shaded flagstone patio, a shed/workshop, raised garden beds, chicken coop, and a sense of privacy while just minutes from all that Santa Barbara has to offer. The bright and airy home, built in 1954, has a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom layout that allows for an extended family or rental income, with a wood burning stove, vaulted ceilings, dual-paned windows, and gorgeous hardwood floors.
 PENDING: Short Sale...since August...
328 Loma Vista Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Listed at $609,000
 LONG TERM RENTAL: Eco-Friendly Mediterranean Urban Oasis 3+1 (tower) bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms 3,000 sq ft specially designed new custom home. Stone and bamboo floors with radiant heat. A Beautiful fireplace in the high ceiling living room, a small fireplace in the master bedroom. Formal dining area with 13 foot ceiling. Gourmet kitchen with 2 subzero refrigerators. Wolf 6 burner + griddle Fisher and Paykel Dishwasher Miele washer + dryer Mountain views with peaks of ocean too! Roof top deck with beautiful sunset views. Solar PV system. Only non-toxic cleaners used No-VOC paint and cotton insulation. Off street parking + optional garage. Antique gates, windows and lamps installed in the house. Furnished with organic mattresses & linens and unique antiques from around the world.
$ 7,500 a month or flexiblelease terms: 3, 6, 1 year lease... No pets or smoking, not flexible.
Please contact DeAnn: 805-451-7488 |
