Here are a few pictures from Olympia's Blue Line March downtown for the International Day of Climate Action. We joined with thousands of towns around the world to get festive and creative while taking our passion to the streets (see 350.org for great photos from far-flung places).
The idea was to trace the "new shoreline" that will come about if we don't bring CO2 in the atmosphere back down to 350 ppm (currently around 385, I believe). Actually, downtown Olympia already floods - we get unusually high tides down here at the base of Puget Sound, and town is built on fill, just one foot over high tide. So during an unusually high tide with a big rain storm there are flash floods in town. With sea-level rise, the stormwater drains will back up and we'll have certain areas that just can't drain and become new downtown lakes (not so fun when it's your business in the middle!).
You can see the cool fish hat Em made me in this photo - that's me blocking the "0" on the 350 sign.
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