It was a historic night in Torrance, California this evening as long-held differences were put aside and the City and your Creative Greenius came together to join forces on behalf of Saturday’s 350.org International Day of Climate Action. That’s me with my new favorite Councilman Cliff Numark just before the Council session started. Doesn’t he look relieved and happy? Don’t I look friendly and reasonable? It’s a new day in Torrance my friends.
Torrance City Councilman Cliff Numark & Joe Galliani at Torrance City Hall (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani
It gets even better for those of us working to bring CO2 levels back down to 350 parts per million as you’ll see after the jump with exclusive video you’ll only see here first on Creative Greenius
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…”
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.
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.
My friends at the World Wildlife Fund just released this absolutely terrific new video on their ground breaking Climate Witness/Climate Take Action project. Watch it right now.
That’s the banner that will be strung across Manhattan Ave in downtown Manhattan Beach next week to herald our South Bay 350 Climate Action Group event on the beach as our part of the International Day of Climate Action. It’s thanks to our host city of Manhattan Beach and our wonderful partners at the South Bay Environmental Services Center.
And here’s the banner that will be stretching across Highway 1 at Marine Avenue courtesy of our great allies at Surfrider Foundation
We’ve got the entire South Bay fired up, ready to go! And we’re reaching out to all 10 million citizens of the County of Los Angeles. These are YOUR beaches, this is YOUR time, this is the issue of YOUR generation. Join us and lets stand shoulder to shoulder to take action for our children and their children!
That’s why the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted yesterday to pass a resolution declaring October 24, 2009 “International Day of Climate Action” for L.A. County. Check it out after the jump.
Hey, Max Baucus and Jon Tester in Montana – Do either of you US Senators have a clue on climate change? It sure doesn’t seem so from the weak, milquetoast style nonleadership you’re both dishing up on this issue that neither of you seems to understand too well. We can’t afford your ignorance any longer. Time to cowboy up fellas. I know you both like to prance in front of the media in cowboy hats, but that phony play acting doesn’t get the job done on climate. And yeah, I know you’re fellow Democrats, that’s why I have the right to be so frank and direct with you both.
My friends at the World Wildlife Fund are nicer about it in their new video directed at your fellow Montanans, but neither of you two public servants has earned that courtesy through your actions.
What about you Senators Snowe and Collins of Maine? You’ve been two weak sisters when it comes to defending your own state against its greatest risk and there’s nothing “moderate” about that. All that global warming isn’t just coming from women your age having hot flashes, or don’t you get that? It doesn’t appear that you do, from your actions so far. Don’t you love and care about the people of your own state? If you do, you’re going to have to move at a much faster speed with a much sharper response ladies… Watch the Maine WWF video after the jump
Sept 24, 2009, New York City (Sourced from prnewswire) – The Clinton Global Initiative announced this afternoon a breakthrough for the long overdue clean energy retrofitting of America’s homes, commercial and apartment buildings.
President Clinton himself made the announcement of a national PACE finance program as part of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York. PACE stands for Property Assessed Clean Energy.
It’s exactly the same kind of land secured financing we’ve been reporting on here at Creative Greenius for over a year now in our coverage of AB 811. And it all began as the brainchild of Cisco DeVries, AB 811’s undisputed Godfather and its most effective champion.
It’s time – right now – to take dramatic action on climate change if you care about preserving a livable civilization for your children and their children. At this moment we are right on track for “disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control,” as Dr. James Hansen warmed us 15 months ago. At that time he said we had 12 months in which to start acting.
While the paid-off ballwashers and sycophants of the fossil fuel industry sellout their country, our citizens and their own families’ future – for reasons only the people on their Bizzaro World home planet, can comprehend – the activists of Greenpeace are telling the truth and telling it in ways impossible to ignore.
They deserve your praise, your thanks and your admiration. They are this era’s Paul Revere and they warn of the real calamity to come. The true patriots of our country will heed that call and are already prepared to fight for a better climate.
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