sea-level rise
Bill McKibben’s Comment
Bill 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/
Torrance Goes All 350 for October 24, Ready to do The Amazing Waving Human Tide Line
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.
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
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…”
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.
Continue reading ➞ The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!
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.
Got Sea Level Rise? Better Get to 350
Headed our way soon?
Here’s a little sneak preview for our readers who may not possess the previsualization abilities I employ when working on climate change.
It’s not just those of us living on the coasts who need worry ’bout what’s coming next…
350 Climate Action – South Bay Style! The Whole World is Watching…
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.
Continue reading ➞ 350 Climate Action – South Bay Style! The Whole World is Watching…
Wakeup! The Sea Level is Rising & Another Island Nation’s People Are About To Become Climate Change Refugees
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.
The View From Here Today
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.
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.
We Are ALL Tongan
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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