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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 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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