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This will be the main page for the Santa Monica lightblueline effort

Check out these photos on Flickr:SLAP and the LINE in Ventura

Sea Level Awareness Project (SLAP) HAPPENED June 29th [from slapventura.com]

SLAP is a community awareness project designed to wake up Ventura to the danger of sea level rise, because of global warming.

This is the main page for the lightblueline SLAP effort. SLAP was started by Eric Loorz in Ventura...

more soon!

THE NEXT MEETING IS: SOON... to be announced. Stay tuned Travis!

The original LINE is no longer planned for Santa Barbara, but we continue to fight against those who do not want the public to know the facts about climate change.

Those of us who live in Santa Barbara and have read the climate change science findings will find new ways to get this information from the scientists to the local public, so that City and other efforts to help curb greenhouse gas emissions will have a greater chance at success.

We are not going away.

If you want to help out:

Charlene Huston is our volunteer coordinator: you can email here at: char@lbline.org
You can always contact us using the CONTACT form on the LEFT

We need those who support us to sign up so we can stay in touch.

We realize that most of you never read the News Press, so you never encountered the poisoned journalism that is the only reason we've changed our plans. When a local newspaper abdicates its responsibility to the public sphere, the truth is the first victim.

The lightblueline organizing committee

This is the home for Santa Barbara’s lightblueline effort.

Welcome all Santa Barbarians!

We are preparing for the "Draw the Line against Climate Change" day this fall.

Please use the "CONTACT" link to the left to let us know if YOU want to join us to paint the line!
HERE are the detailed MAPS AND THE INSTALLATION DIAGRAM for the Santa Barbara art project

This is where the original idea for lightblueline occured-- I was walking down Anacapa between de la Guerra and Cota after watching An Inconvenient Truth. And this is where a dedicated team of volunteers has been working to create the first lightblueline street painting action.
We are working hard with the City government to create a best-practice example for this public education effort, so that we can pass on this information to volunteers in other cities. The lessons we learn here will help grow this movement across the globe.
Here in Santa Barbara we have so much to lose should global warming create a rise in our sea level. Our beautiful beaches and the entire waterfront (not to mention the freeway, railroad, and airport--planes, trains, and automobiles are all at risk), would be ravaged over the decades, with each year sending new waves across roads and into our cliffs.
We have created lightlblueline to help our neighbors understand that we all must work together NOW to change our habits and reduce our impacts on the global environment. We CAN stop global warming, but it will take all of us. Lightblueline is not the answer, it is only a beacon, a warning signal.
Everytime we walk past the lightblueline or drive across it, we need to think about how living in Santa Barbara is a priviledge in part because of our beautiful coastline. Only if we can lead the world in reducing our carbon emissions, and make Santa Barbara a shining example of intelligent energy use, can we tell our children that we did everything we could to give them the same coastline we enjoy so much.
We who have the most to lose have the greatest need to become leaders. Joins us in our effort to keep the ocean down at the waterfront!
Thank You.
Bruce Caron
#1 painter
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Now you can get into the latest fashion craze by going to CafePress:

lightblueline store

NOW in crimson too!

The question of "Why Seven Meters" is a really good one. And there is a good answer for this. But the answer requires some preliminary work. Sea level changes every century as climate conditions change. After an ice age, sea level will rise as the glaciers shrink. As another ice age grows, sea level will fall as water is captured on the continents. Between ice ages, continents rise as well when released from the weight of thousands of feet of ice. Without human intervention, we would likely see the trend of slow sea level rise continue as it has for centuries.

What IS lightblueline:

Lightblueline is a volunteer public education effort that transforms the science of global climate change into a public action. We are painting the seven meter above sea level line on the streets of the world to remind everyone that human induced climate change will, if we do not act NOW, create a new climate, and a new coast line. We chose seven meters, as this is the effect of the ice on Greenland (only) melting.