SAVE THE DATE FOR 2025:
APRIL 26 AND 27
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY in ALAMEDA PARK
Thank you to the 28,000 of you who made the 2024 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival a huge success! We featured more than 100 booths offering the latest in sustainable products, services and engagement opportunities. Our Green Car Show provided 225 ride & drives in electric vehicles and 150 test rides of e-bikes. We valet parked over 500 bikes and provided thousands of plant-forward meals in our Food Court.
Please save the dates for 2025: April 26 and 27!
Please join us as we educate and inspire our attendees to take action on plastic reduction.
Our 2024 Environmental Hero was Alejandra Warren from Plastic Free Future.
Alejandra Warren co-founded Plastic Free Future, a California-based nonprofit committed to the reduction and elimination of plastic pollution through promoting reusable alternatives, with a focus on outreach to underserved and systemically-excluded communities. Alejandra is also an NGO delegate to the UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution. She has dedicated her life to making an impact on climate change and her work lights the way for communities everywhere.
2024 MAIN STAGE LINE UP offered a great selection!
SATURDAY
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. SOPHIE HOLT
1:20 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. EVAN BLIX
2:20 p.m. - 2:35 p.m. WORLD DANCE FOR HUMANITY
2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. NO SIMPLE HIGHWAY
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. FALSE PUPPET
5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. THE LAST DECADE
SUNDAY
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ENVIRONMENTAL HERO AWARD
1:15 p.m. -2:00 p.m. BOBBY, FINN AND DAVE
2:20 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. QUEENTIDE
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. THE VONETTES
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. RASTAN CAMPBELL
5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CORNERSTONE
2024 CLIMATE ACTION STAGE
SATURDAY
12:00 p.m. - Gardening with Natives for Climate Action Panel
1:00 p.m. - Santa Barbara’s Big Oil Resistance Panel
2:00 p.m. - The Pesticide Free Soil Project: DRIFT
3:00 p.m. - Take Climate Action with CEC
Eat Climate Smart (English)
Electrify Your Home Affordably (English)
Electrify Your Home Affordably (Spanish)
4:00 p.m. - Poets for Climate Action
SUNDAY
12:00 p.m. - Environmental Hero Award on Main Stage
1:00 p.m. - Take Climate Action with CEC
Save Big on EV’s (English)
Become a Climate Activist (English)
Save Big on EV’s (Spanish)
2:00 p.m. - From Wish-Cycling to Recycling with Planet Protectors
3:00 p.m. - Environmental Hero Panel with Kathi King & Alejandra Warren
FESTIVAL ZONES
Green Car Show
Longest-running public Green Car Show in the U.S. features the latest in electric vehicle technology
Kids Corner
Kids’ activities and family-friendly performances throughout the festival
Music & Entertainment
Two days of live music and performances on multiple stages. See who played in 2023!
Plant-Forward Food Court & Beer Garden
The best farm-to-table climate-friendly fare in the region. Locally-sourced beer and wine garden.
The Santa Barbara Earth Day festival is one of the longest-running Earth Day celebrations in the country – and is believed to be one of the largest Earth Day festivals on the West Coast. Santa Barbara’s environmental reputation attracts national media, celebrity attention, and local crowds.
Want to volunteer in 2025? Watch for the link here!
Earth Day shines a spotlight on companies who put sustainability front and center and provides an audience that’s willing to hear your message.
Widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Earth Day, Santa Barbara’s involvement began with the devastating 1969 oil spill off its coast.
