When my good friend and former CBS EcoMedia colleague, Taylor, heard Larry Mantle on today’s live broadcast of KPCC’s Film Week mention, “Joe from Redondo Beach” and the documentary “Inconvenient Truth,” she texted to ask if that was me.
Yup. It was.
So was this back in 2008.
So cool to have the historical record to show who said what, when.
I got the price of gas wrong, but nailed the rest of it.
As I mentioned in public remarks I made in January of 2015, I’ve been a member of The Lucky Sperm Club since 1957 –
As I turn 62 this week it still ain’t easy dealing with the high expectations that come with being the beneficiary of undeserved while male privilege.
Luckily, as I will mansplain to you all here, I am smart enough to always rely on the women of superior intellect and courage to redirect me when I steer off course and in the wrong direction – which I am prone to do.
So it has been in the week or so since Jonathan Frazen’s piece was published in The New Yorker. The rightful backlash to his “Let’s Just Roll Over & Play Dead On Climate” came from many quarters, but the most searing and right-on takes came from climate and gender journalist Amy Westervelt; Climate scientist, Kate Marvel; and Climate Justice Advocate and Essayist, Mary Annaise Heglar.
On Sunday, May 5, 2019 the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club held their annual Awards Banquet and presented a special conservation award to Joe Galliani, declaring-
Through his extraordinary leadership and vision, has brought 100% clean energy to Southern California. A leader with South Bay 350, Joe formed South Bay Clean Power and created awareness of and enthusiasm for the process known as Community Choice Aggregation. He was successful in bringing a number of cities to work together. This effort eventually led to the formation of the Los Angeles County Clean Power Alliance. As a result, at least 8 entities, thousands of businesses, and hundreds of thousands of residents in LA and Ventura Counties will be receiving 100% clean energy beginning in 2019, decades ahead of the State of California, which has set a goal of 2045.
Dr. David Haake Chair of the Sierra Club Clean Break Committee, and an original member of the South Bay Clean Power Working Group, introduced Joe and presented the award to him on stage:
In his brief acceptance remarks, Joe called for the nationalization of the oil and gas industries, the seizure of their assets and the phase out of their operations by 2030 with the re-assignment of their employees to jobs repairing the damage they’ve done to frontline communities and cleaning the toxic messes their industry has made across the USA.
“The truth is we don’t have 12 years left or 10 years left to do the right thing. We are called to start emergency action today.
We can either answer that call, or we can go home and just watch Game of Thrones.
But it ain’t winter that’s coming my friends.
It’s summer headed our way next.
And our children are going to make it hotter than hell for us.
I intend to follow their lead.”
On Friday night, April 26, I had the privilege of hosting a panel on the Green New Deal at Temple Isaiah in West Los Angeles. The Theme was “The Path Forward: If Not The Green New Deal, Then What?
These are the videos and visuals I curated and screened for the audience as means to tell the story –
Here’s what the UN said after their new climate report came out:
Let Greta tell you:
The usually calm Bill McKibben, the nation’s premier environmental author, said this just last week:
Creative Greenius 