lightblueline

We held our 2nd local organizing meeting in Santa Barbara on Friday. Thanks to everyone who came down to the University Club!

We discussed a variety of issues about this action, locally and beyond.

Locally:
Rosanne Livingston has volunteered to head the working group looking into the right types of paint and other practical matters surrounding the actual painting process. Tom Huston is helping out with this.

Adrianne Davis is helping to gather new supporters from the local environmental community and government.

Keith Clarke and Keith Goodman are looking to put the local lightblueline data up on Google Earth, to show how this works.

I saw An Inconvenient Truth, back in late June, and then walked out of the Paseo Nuevo Cinema and down Anacapa Street towards Cota in the twilight, wondering just where the seven meter sea level rise would cross the street. Marking this with a line seemed to bring the whole global climate change equation into clear focus. I've long wondered why people do not consider climate change to be a threat. In part, it is because they do not know how to value climate stability. But the idea that the Santa Barbara waterfront, which the city and the people have spent decades building into a beautiful recreation zone, could be demolished in a century by rising sea level--this is a real threat.

On Friday, July 28, lightblueline held it's opening meeting at the Chicago Pacific Entertainment office on the Riviera in Santa Barbara (thanks Andy!). With presentations from UCSB geographers, and discussions about next steps with community activist Adrianne Davis, the project was off to a fast start. Bruce Caron noted that the lightblueline website was being prepared, and this is the first entry into this website.
Martin Landsfeld, Keith Goodman, and Aaron Woro also participated.