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Stuart Candy, from UH Manoa reports on the emerging attempts by citizen artists to mark their environment as a method to show potential local impacts from climate change. He compares the Hawai'ian chalk line to Eve Mosher's work in New York, the projects underway in Seattle and San Francisco, and the lightblueline effort in Santa Barbara.

Mapping C-change

Here is an excerpt.

"So how effective is this type of project in achieving the ends its animators typically have in mind?

NOTE: This effort is an independent action. It fits fully into the lightblueline goal of marking local geographies with the traces of potential future impacts.

Source: AP, January 31, 2008
"HONOLULU (AP) _ High school students have drawn blue chalk lines on Honolulu city sidewalks marking where scientists believe Oahu's high tide will reach after decades of global warming and rising sea levels.

In 50 to 100 years, they expect the Pacific Ocean to shift up to one mile inland from the current shoreline, putting all of Waikiki under water.

In this still from the film "Ruthless People" (Silver Screen Partners II, 1986), the building at the end of the Santa Monica Pier is adorned by a very large version of the same design as that chosen for the lightblueline. The elevation is a bit off... more like 30 feet.

In San Francisco, "Future Sea Level" is a collaborative effort of Aquarium of the Bay Foundation, the Sierra Club and the San Francisco Department of the Environment.

Here is their website: Future Sea Level

Using a special Tape, they are marking buildings on the waterfront. NEWS from this action will be added below.

In Ventura, Alec Loorz is working to show the city where the twenty-foot line above sea level is. Alec is currently 13, and is working with his friends to mark the city of Ventura with more than one-hundred poles to illustrate the dangers of climate change. His website is http://kids-vs-global-warming.com/. Check it out! Alec and his mother, Virginia, have come up to Santa Barbara to help out with new ideas for the lightblueline effort.

Here is the opinion piece the Action sent to the Santa Barbara Independent... ironically, it was published on the day we withdrew our project from council consideration.

"S.B. Paints a Light Blue Line

Drawing the Line Against Human-Induced Climate Change

Published in the Independent: Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Independent covered the action that the lightblueline effort took to defuse the campaign of misinformation started by a local daily newspaper. The circumstances of this action show how the media can impact efforts at public education.

You can read the whole article here: White Flag on Blue Line

Below are excerpts from the article:

In its first issue of this new school year, the Westmont Horizon student newspaper covered the dynamic happenings over the lightblueline environmental public awareness art project.
The article was authored by Jedd Goble.
With permission we are including the text of this article below:

Dividing Line

imagine u r a skipper of a small sail boat and that there is aboard a person to help youand one other person who is just along for the ride so to speak that is to say i. e.

The Santa Barbara Independent (August 9, 2007) covered the Historic Landmark Commission's 5-2 approval of the lightblueline educational art project.

You can read the whole article here: Light Blue Line Not Erased

Below are excerpts: