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Where We’ve Been, Where We’re At & Where We’re Going

November 9, 2009November 13, 2009citizen volunteer, climate change, energy efficiency, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental Politics, fossil fuels, News Media, Ocean, renewable energy, Saving Energy, sea-level rise, Yes We Can!Leave a Comment

It’s my great honor to have written this update on our South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group for the 350.org site where you will find it cross posted and currently on their homepage. I’m proud to be associated in any way with Bill McKibben, May Boeve, Matt Fitzgerald, Joe Solomon, Jamie Henn and every other organizer I’ve come in contact with from the 350 team.

20091024_115400_TN25glob — As part of the International Day of Climate Change on October 24, participants line up and do the wave for an airplane covering the event near the Manhattan Beach Pier. Organizers said 5,200 events were scheduled around the globe to mark the day. (Sean Hiller Daily Breeze Staff Photographer)

It’s exactly two weeks to the day since we surprised a whole lot of folks with an Amazing Waving Human Tide Line on our South Bay Los Angeles beach that stretched much further than any of us could see from the start of the line at the Manhattan Beach Pier.

It was indeed amazing, it was most definitely waving and it was filled with hundreds and hundreds of humans showing the world that we Southern Californians are anything but mellow or laid-back when it comes to demanding a 350 ppm CO2 target and the actions necessary to protect our children’s’ future survival.

The energy, buzz and sheer power of the 1,300 strong and very potent mix of people of every age, from every walk of life and from every rung on the ladder who made history on our beach is still reverberating throughout the community and down every hall of power on the local, regional, county, state and federal level. And we have no intention of letting those vibrations subside.

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Greenius Gets Serious About 350, Global Warming & the US Moral Obligation in Copenhagen

November 6, 2009November 6, 2009campaign, citizen volunteer, climate change, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental Politics, fossil fuels, greenwashing, Killer Coal, plug-in cars, Saving Energy, sea-level rise, solar power, Sustainability, Yes We Can!2 Comments

Here’s what was on my mind this morning at 11:30 am when I spoke with Tracy Young of CNN’s Headline News, Charter Local Edition.

This is the sneak preview of that interview. Photos and video clips from our historic October 24 Climate Action in Manhattan Beach will be added in post production. The interview will air multiple times starting on November 30 and running through December 6 – the day before the Copenhagen climate talks begin.

“Greenius Was Right!” says US Congressman Inslee from Washington State

October 30, 2009carbon producers, climate change, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental Politics, fossil fuels, green education, greenwashing, Killer Coal, News Media, politics, Yes We Can!Leave a Comment

In one of the Creative Greenius’ most highly read posts, written on July 29 of this year, I said there was no difference between today’s global warming deniers and the heads of the tobacco industry a few years back.

Yesterday my position was correctly stated by Rep. Jay Inslee a democrat from the great Pacific Northwest state of Washington who tore the authors of SuperWeakEconomics a new one for all their lies and hack writing in their new, already discredited book.

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Greenius Sez, “We Have The People, We Have the Power and There is Nothing That Can Stop Us.”

October 29, 2009October 29, 2009campaign, citizen volunteer, climate change, environment, Environmental Politics, Ocean, politics, renewable energy, Saving Energy, sea-level rise, Sustainability, Yes We Can!Leave a Comment

From our friends at GreenObservers.org who out hustled and outproduced every TV news station in the L.A. market.

Greenius Rocks South Bay L.A. with Greenpeace! Global Warming Doesn’t Stand A Chance

October 28, 2009environmentLeave a Comment

Carbon Free L.A. Greensters Brilliant New Video of The Big Haul for South Bay/L.A. 350 Climate Action

October 28, 2009campaign, citizen volunteer, climate change, Sustainability, Yes We Can!1 Comment

These people are simply incredible. Watch this video then get on your bike and start pedaling.

I salute the L.A. Greensters and the equally awe inspiring Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition for being the ultimate biking gods of the Southern California universe.

Thanks for being a tremendous role model for the rest of us and thanks for operating our great Bike Valet last Saturday. Because of partners like you, we were the largest climate action ever staged in the history of Southern California.

My Gorgeous Wife Debra Doing The Amazing Waving Human Tide Line Saturday

October 27, 2009October 27, 2009campaign, citizen volunteer, climate change, energy efficiency, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental Politics, Ocean, renewable energy, Saving Energy, sea-level rise, Sustainability, Yes We Can!2 Comments

I’ve been married to Debra Bushweit Galliani since August 2, 1981. There may have been beauty queens and bikini babes galore on the beach with us for our International Day of Climate Action but I only have eyes for this girl starting the wave from the front of the line!

4042760024_7b73451daa_o — That's Debra in the red 350 shirt she hand painted. She's the VP of the Southern California Horticultural Society and a long term board member of the South Coast Botanic Gardens.

Greenius on KPCC with Patt Morrison Talking About the Pew Poll on Global Warming

October 26, 2009October 26, 2009climate change, environment2 Comments

I’ve been a proud member-supporter of KPCC FM 89.3 for many years and they are my NPR station of choice here in Los Angeles. I listen to them every single morning and have since 1993. I love Airtalk with Larry Mantle, I love the Patt Morrision show, I love Off Ramp with John Rabe on the weekends, I love Steve Julian with the local news and I love Kitty Felde reporting from Washington DC.

What I didn’t love was how they ignored the largest climate action in the history of Southern California and instead sent a reporter to cover the mindless dancing of Michael Jackson’s Thriller at L.A. Live this weekend instead of covering the real news. That was a decision made the multiple Golden Mike award winning Nick Roman, news director and someone I met while doing weekly commentaries on KLON FM88 in Long Beach during 1983-1985.

Hard to imagine that decision being in the best interest of you, me or anyone else in the listening audience isn’t it? Especially in light of all the coverage given the now dead pop star since his overdose death from drug use.

I had to phone into the Patt Morrison show today to spin the topic of the Pew Poll on Global Warming to focus this story where it needs to be. You can listen for yourself right here. My call comes at the 9:53 mark in the program.