For decades Oniracom has proudly supported all of the Jack Johnson camp’s nonprofit initiatives as a marketing and technology partner including the Kokua Hawaii Foundation and its Kokua Festival, Plastic Free Hawaii, Johnson Ohana Foundation, All At Once, and most recently BYOBottle.org. The collaborative BYOBottle Campaign encourages artists, venues, festivals, businesses and fans to reduce…
Santa Barbara is the birthplace and home of Earth Day, which started the April after the 1969 oil spill. The Community Environmental Council (CEC) was founded this same year, and to this day runs our annual Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival. Learn more about the history of Earth Day, CEC, and the Santa Barbara environmental movement. As a parter…
50 years ago today “California’s Worst Oil Spill Turned Beaches Black And The Nation Green”. Yesterday, students, activists, non-governmental organization leaders, politicians and other community members filled 1,800 seats at the Arlington Theatre as they gathered for the “50 Years After the Santa Barbara Oil Spill: A Call to Action”. The free event commemorated the first 50…
Ocean Friendly Restaurants has just launched in Santa Barbara! We are excited to help spread the word and support local businesses that are going above and beyond to protect our ocean and beaches. Ocean Friendly Restaurants is a program of the Surfrider Foundation which helps restaurants minimize their impacts on the ocean by adopting practices that reduce single-use plastic waste, maximize energy…
Photos by Nicole Wallace/Daily Nexus The groundbreaking of the UCSB Edible Campus Program Student Farm, a project supported by the Johnson Ohana Foundation, took place last week. UCSB alumni Jack & Kim Johnson, along with Chancellor Henry T. Yang, and many other community members, helped usher in the celebration. Edible Campus Student Farm Project from…
Since Oniracom’s inception, a major part of our practice as a company is being environmentally friendly. As a result, we are big supporters of Earth Day and several other sustainability projects. This weekend marks our 7th Santa Barbara Earth Day collaboration with the Community Environmental Council. For many companies the cost of going green can…
Being an environmentally friendly business comes with its perks. First and foremost, you get to feel good about making the world a safer, healthier place. Reducing the use of energy and resources provides an opportunity to improve profitability through cost savings. Additionally, you get to take advantage of rebates and other incentives while attracting new environmentally-concerned…