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

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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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.

Great Photo by Sean Hiller in Daily Breeze

You all know how much I like to read the Daily Breeze on line.  This morning’s Daily Breeze coverage includes this great photo by Breeze staff photographer, Sean Hiller

As part of the International Day of Climate Change on Saturday, participants line up and do the tidal 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 Staff Photographer)
As part of the International Day of Climate Change on Saturday, participants line up and do the tidal 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 Staff Photographer)

At precisely 3:50 p.m., the group formed a line as far as the eye could see. The timing was to remind people that their goal was to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, said organizer Joe Galliani.

Bill McKibben’s Comment

bill_mckibbenBill McKibben says:
October 22, 2009 at 8:48 am

“Can I just say–Joe’s amazing work is a prime example of what’s going on in every corner of the world. Not everyone is as sophisticated, but in 171 nations and across (currently) 4,400 events people are coming together around a scientific data point. We’re driving the debate, for once, and I wish you could all be in our temporary HQ in NYC just to watch the pictures pour in from every direction. It’s frenetic but joyful–if you’ve ever worried (as I have) that there would never be a popular outpouring around global warming, it’s a sight for sore eyes.”

Read the Creative Greenius guest post on Climate Progress today:

http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/22/350-ppm-in-south-bay-los-angele/

The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

I originally wrote and published this piece in June of 2008 under the title “The Cat Is On The Roof – This Joke is at YOUR Expense…”

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Today, on this very special Blog Action Day Creative Greenius, I take you back to June of 2008 and ask you: What the hell have YOU been doing for the past 15 months?  Worried about your finances and the crash of the economy?  That ain’t nothing compared to what’s on tap for you next.

You woke up to a house on fire, and you best stop thinking that smell is coffee.

Where Will YOU Be on October 24?

If you’re a friend of mine I know you’ll be at the Manhattan Beach Pier at 3pm on October 24th to be part of the largest climate action in the history of Southern California.  If you’re not yet a friend of mine, come on down and you’ll become a friend of mine.

Lots of my Greenpeace friends will be there with me and some of them are coming from as far away as the Bay Area, or Green Nirvana as we refer to it down here.

Some of my other Greenpeace friends just released this new video.  It’s 2 minutes 23 seconds long.  Watch it right now.  Then head over to www.350.org/southbay350 and RSVP for October 24.