Solar Strong – 12 March 2026
Craig Lewis spoke during this in-person gathering, held on on Thursday, 12 March 2026 at 12 pm PST under the solar parking canopy at the Granada Parking Garage in Santa Barbara, CA.
Solar Strong
12 March 2026
Granada Parking Garage
Santa Barbara, CA
Clean Coalition’s Founder and Executive Director, Craig Lewis, spoke alongside Caleb Weis of Environment California, Jefferson Litten from the City of Santa Barbara, Michael Chiacos from the Community Environmental Council, and Leah Stokes from the Department of Political Science at UCSB during this in-person gathering hosted by Environment California. The event was held on Thursday, 12 March 2026 at 12 pm PST under the solar parking canopy at the Granada Parking Garage in Santa Barbara, CA.
- Video recording of the event can be found on Environment California’s Facebook page here.
- Craig Lewis spoke on the following topics:
- The SB region is super grid vulnerable — and local solar is the key answer for achieving energy resilience across the region. See this colorful 2-pager for background:
- Examples of projects that the Clean Coalition has facilitated, or is facilitating, including the Solar Microgrid projects for the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD), Santa Barbara Humane (SBH), Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara (USSB). See this brief article for background on the SBUSD Solar Microgrids:
- Call-to-action to support local solar, in the following ways:
- Put solar on homes & businesses with which you are associated, whether you own or rent a home or business, you either have direct influence or indirect influence.
- Support the initiative in Santa Barbara County to treat solar parking canopies the same as rooftop solar. This issue will be heard by the Planning Commission today so I will have hot-off-the-press information by tomorrow’s SB Solar Strong event.
- Support the Environment California legislative agenda to help unleash local solar.