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Cleaning Up The Coast – While It’s Still Here

September 18, 2009September 24, 2009environment, OceanLeave a Comment

Tomorrow morning I’m going to walk out my front door and the five minutes down the hill it takes to reach the Torrance beach where Heal the Bay has one of its 60 different clean up sites in the L.A. area. There I’ll join over 12,000 volunteers from all over Los Angeles will take action to rid our beaches and inland waterways of unsightly and harmful debris.

We’ll all be part Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD), the international event with over 60 countries around the world participating, making it one of the largest volunteer efforts on the planet! I’m real big on world wide volunteer efforts – as I’ll remind you after the jump.

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The Summit On Clean Tech Law & The New Energy Policy

September 12, 2009September 19, 2009carbon producers, climate change, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental Politics, fossil fuels, green education, renewable energy, solar power, Sustainability1 Comment

My friend, attorney Leslie Williams, of Shaub and Williams, has been busy for the past few months putting together a big Renewable Energy Law Summit at the Southwestern Law School in L.A. and it takes place next week, on Sept 18.

If it wasn’t my 52nd birthday and I wasn’t already volunteering for the South Bay Environmental Services Center that day in Lawndale, I’d be there – because the lineup Leslie’s put together is pretty terrific:

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Wakeup! The Sea Level is Rising & Another Island Nation’s People Are About To Become Climate Change Refugees

September 5, 2009September 6, 2009citizen volunteer, climate change, environment, fossil fuels, sea-level rise, Sustainability1 Comment

Here is why I spend all of my time working on climate change issues and why we are gathering on the beach here in Southern California on October 24 in Manhattan Beach for 350.org International Day of Climate Action to demonstrate what sea level rise will do to us here on the West Coast:

Please watch this BBC video and learn what’s going on right now in your own world. You will be amazed and you will wonder why you never saw anything about this in the mainstream media.

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Greenius Talks Climate Change Sense of Urgency with Bill Nye the Science Guy

September 1, 2009September 1, 2009climate change, electric cars, environment, plug-in cars1 Comment

In August I covered the Plug-In 2009 Conference in Long Beach for Creative Greenius and provided exclusive photos and commentary.

On the final night of the conference, August 13, a public night was held featuring a forum with Bill Nye the Science Guy, Chelsea Sexton and “Who Killed the Electric Car” Director, Chris Paine. In this excerpt from the complete video provided by Plug-In America on YouTube, I ask the panel about the sense of urgency I felt at the 2008 conference but found lacking here in 2009:

The View From Here Today

August 31, 2009August 31, 2009citizen volunteer, climate change, energy efficiency, environment, fossil fuels, renewable energy, Saving Energy, sea-level rise, solar power, Sustainability, water conservationLeave a Comment

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. I took the photos that now illustrate it here on my blog within the last hour:

My name is Joe Galliani, I’m 52 years old and I’ve lived in Southern California for 33 years.

(c) 2009 by Joe Galliani - This afternoon's view from my studio's patio

Since 1993 my wife and I have lived in Torrance California, just a half mile from the beautiful beach and the Pacific Ocean. We feel very fortunate to live here at the base of the gorgeous Palos Verdes Peninsula, but today we’re breathing a big sigh of relief learning that the Palos Verdes Wildfire was 100% contained this morning. What we’re not breathing is clean air, because the smoke from the La Canada-Flintridge fire, about 38 miles from here, is still making air quality hazardous and people in the L.A. basin are being advised not to spend too much time outdoors and to keep their doors and windows closed and their air conditioners running.

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Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

August 29, 2009August 29, 2009climate change, environment, Environmental Politics, solar powerLeave a Comment

P1050594 — Backstage at the 2009 Warped Tour, Home Depot Stadium, Carson Calif

This is the summer I totally got my groove on. And I have never been more all now or totally happening.

While lots of folks took the month of August off, or participated in the greatest display ever of America’s mental health crisis – by aggressively acting out in public Town Halls enraged over their own painful ignorance – your Creative Greenius has devoted 100% of my time to pro bono volunteer work that makes a difference.

I’ve never made less money or had a more rewarding time.

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Greenius Chairing New South Bay 350 Climate Action Group

August 21, 2009September 13, 2009environment3 Comments

I am now chairing the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group and we are off to a flying start getting a big “YES!” to every group and individual we talk to about support.

I am inviting ALL of Los Angeles to come on down to Manhattan Beach pier on Saturday, October 24 to join me and the dozens of local organizations and thousands of your fellow concerned So Cal citizens to demonstrate our support for a 350 ppm limit on CO2 emissions in our atmosphere.

There is broad support for a cleaner climate and renewable energy use and we’re going to prove it for all the world to see.

ToxicTown Torrance Has A Chemical Problem

August 18, 2009August 19, 2009citizen volunteer, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental PoliticsLeave a Comment

As if I don’t have enough environmental trouble to worry about here in ToxicTown, Torrance, California, my home for the past 16+ years, what with the evil Exxon Mobil Refinery using 750 prime acres of our real estate to spew greenhouse gases and other climate changing emissions day and night with the blessing and endorsement of our City Council, Mayor and easy to please Environmental Commission.

But today my friends at Greenpeace released a new reason to worry about the environment here in Torrance. They put the bulls-eye on JCI Jones Chemical as the posterboys for needlessly dangerous chemical plants that put 4.5 million women, children and men at risk. I’m one of those men and I take it personally …

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We Are ALL Tongan

August 17, 2009July 23, 2019carbon producers, climate change, environment, fossil fuels, sea-level rise, solar power, Sustainability5 Comments

My friend Elizabeth is from the South Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga, an exotic locale long fixed in my memory with images of Polynesian paradise.

Tonga has sadly been in the news lately after an inter-island ferry sank on August 5 drowning over 70 people. It’s a huge tragedy in such a small place and it has saddened all Tongans around the world.

When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. Elizabeth is producing a documentary film on the history of Tongans immigrating to America and she knows a lot about the subject.

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis.

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Your AB 920 Greenius Update & A Call For Three Times The Sun!

August 14, 2009carbon producers, climate change, environment, environmental legislation, Environmental Politics, fossil fuels, green jobs3 Comments

One of the groups I support and learn from is Environment California who have been great advocates of AB 811 and AB 920, the one-two punch for solar we absolutely need to drive solar sales at the rate demanded by today’s CO2 levels. Dan Jacobson is the Legislative Director of Environment California and he’s both progressive and effective – and someone I admire a great deal.

Dan’s been a big help to California Assemblyman Jared Huffman’s efforts to get AB 920 turned into the feed-in tariff law that will drive sales of solar literally through and onto every available rooftop in the Golden State. And if you talked with Lawrence Cooper he’d probably tell you it would be a big help in getting to 33% renewable energy in California. Lawrence Cooper works with Assemblyman Huffman, and AB 920 is one of his big responsibilities.

I heard from Cooper a couple of times this week with updates on the progress of AB 920 which is expected to be heard on Monday in Senate Appropriations, where it will be referred to the suspense file due to the cost. Cooper and his team will then start to work to get the bill out of suspense.

Cooper has already worked long and hard, including setting me straight about SCE’s support for the bill. I had gotten that wrong in my piece on Monday and Cooper was kind enough to correct me without beating me up.

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