About the Greenius
Yosemite cap made by The Parks Company in the USA
Hi, I’m Joe Galliani, the Creative Greenius, and I’m a creative director, writer, brand strategist and subject matter expert for some of America’s most successful and demanding corporations. I’ve been a top gun-for-hire freelancer since 1987.
I’ve spent my entire career inventing and delivering creative solutions that inspire and motivate people to action. Long before my career began, my love for unspoiled wilderness and wildlife drove me to the green side.
In 1997 I co-found The Parks Company, along with my business partner and friend, Mike Baggetta, one of the most talented fine artists and gifted graphic artists of our generation. Together we created America’s first and only national park catalog company raising money for the parks with every sale. And we’re still going strong 12 years later.
Today my passion to protect the beauty and power of nature drives me to help my clients use their strengths for the good of the many instead of the greed of the few. When I find out that a client doesn’t live up to my standards I fire them. That’s why I dumped Washington Mutual in 2007.
October 24, 2009 South Bay Los Angeles Climate Action, Manhattan Beach
More importantly it fuels my volunteer service for groups like the South Bay Cities Green Task Force the South Bay Environmental Services Center, GRID Alternatives, and the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group here in my Southern California home.
It also calls me to employ my skills and talents to read, research, and dig, in order to understand the truth about the greatest challenge of our time – climate change. I am here to spread that stark and unflinching truth in my own unique style and offer some of the creative solutions we need to go the green way… before we are forced to simply go away.
But I am not here to waste any of my time or delay any of my actions by being suckered into a nonexistent debate by the cult of climate change deniers. There is no debate on the key issues of climate change or the actions we need to take in response. There is no legitimate argument about the fact that climate change is man-made and that the response is to cut our greenhouse gas emissions.
I have no respect and no time for people who are too evil or too ignorant to tell the truth and whose only motivation is to stop us from saving ourselves. If the denier cult is successful in stopping us, then I firmly believe the younger generations who will suffer the worst consequences, will rightfully want to strangle those deniers in their sleep – especially the professional ones who were being paid by the likes of Exxon/Mobil. I’m working hard to keep that karma from coming down.
Because of the broad failure of the mainstream media here in Southern California and nationally to cover the climate change crisis and environmental news overall with the urgency and priority they deserve, I have been forced to step into that void and use my journalistic skills and resources to report on these stories in their stead.
Whether it be the Plug-In vehicle revolution already underway, solar PV installation and widespread adoption, AB 811 funding programs for solar and energy efficiency, the latest on climate change news both locally and globally, feed-in tariffs that pay for renewable power generation or which local South Bay governments and politicians are stepping up and which are letting us down – you can count on my reporting in the Creative Greenius to deliver the news, the truth and the perspective these issues require and deserve.
I’m pretty damn good at what I do, but I’m up against the most powerful, monied interests on the planet today, the entire carbon-based economy, and they’re fighting fang and claw to hold on to their evil empire and maintain their ability to make riches while pouring their toxic wastes into the sky, the waters, and the lands.
October 24, 2009 on the beach, Manhattan Beach with my pal, Petey the Polar Bear
They’re employing the top talent, mega ad agencies and communication specialists of every stripe around the world – in short, some of the the biggest suckups and sellouts of our time.
It won’t be easy, but there are many other good guys and gals out there too and together we’re either going to kick some serious ass… or fry trying.
I love your site. Keep it up !
Congratulations! fine work and I agree that the corporate elite will shower their buddies with money and get nothing done.
They don’t care about this planet, or harmony for that matter either, they just use it as an excuse to squeeze more profits out of well intended people.
You’re a visionary; honest and skillful.
Hope you can help in this solar endeavor for Tribal Nations we spook about last Thursday at the South Bay Environmental Services Center event.
Nat
Greenius:
Thanks Nat. I’m currently in San Diego doing a solar install for GRID Alternatives on a Habitat for Humanity house here in El Cajon. But I look forward to talking to you about solar for the Tribal Nations upon my return.
i want to help!
magically,
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Greenius,
Well, sleeper, I’m afraid helping “magically” just isn’t going to cut it. But perhaps you’ve got some mojo I’ve not yet experienced… Wanting to help is good, but actually helping has that beat by miles. Thanks for checking in.
A Retrofit America Program!
What we need is what the only candidate for President that I know of that ever talked about this, former Gov. Jerry Brown of CA, now CA Atty. General:
To Retrofit America or a Retrofit America Program!
Houses, Buildings and Hotels, that should be demolished or re-done!
We haven’t really ever had program as such in this country!
Not just a Mimi Eisenhower Program, that destroys historical landmarks as we have seen with boondoggles here in the recent years,
Shutting down libraries and re-building them in places that are loud, etc. etc. putting money in politicans and developers pockets!
But programs that preserve historical landmarks by retrofitting them and hotels, etc.
Not just limited to Federal Buildings.
We have all kinds of decrepit buildings such as homes, old business buildings, apt. buildings and old hotels, that have needed to go down for years and years and even decades now, but have not because of real estate ventures that only involve the buyer of property to exploit.
Typical buyers do not put or invest money into these types of things. They merely get into them for fast profit and make terrible landlords as in slum lords.
Cities, Counties, and States, cannot afford to pay for to demolish buildings that have already way past depreciated in value, and thus bring down the value of the whole area.
Thus, making Malls the next target for another mega church!
Nothing wrong with churches but this is what is happening.
Unless cities, counties and states get major funds to develop plans that best suit the interests of the people in terms of cleaning up neigborhoods and re-building, America will continue to slowly crumble due to same old business as usual real estate rookies, etc.
It takes groups of investors to go in on business deals for organic food stores, etc. etc.
Not lone business people trying to get rich off of being terrible landlords who don’t want to invest in the best interest of the building or who can’t come up with new ideas.
They have no ideas!
So the continual trend leads to a crumbling America that not everyone can even see or realize.
These types of people don’t see the picture of what is happening.
We don’t have new apt. complexes because they are to busy buying up the old decrepit ones!
So it continues down this recycling destructive path!
That leads to a crumbling America within it’s cities.
Patrick S. Tanner
Owensboro, KY
From the Greenius:
Thanks Patrick, Appreciate you weighing in from the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.
Since the bulk of all buildings people use are those already existing and not brand new buildings, I am also a very big fan of retrofitting those buildings to be be more energy efficient in all the possible ways. We need to get our electric companies to decouple their profits from sheer kilowatt use alone or they will never encourage their customers to use less energy. Here in California we’ve done that and it’s been a tremendous success for many years now.
Hi Joe,
I’m a primary school teacher writing to you from Luxembourg (unfortunately one of the worst per capita climate polluters in the world), and i totally share your feelings about nature and your goals for a greener society. I’m happy and thankful that talented and devoted people like you invest their resources in the promotion of holistic action for the benefit of our precious and irreplaceable planet. But i also have two tricky questions concerning the general stance of ecologically oriented groups:
1) On the one hand these groups favour systemic thinking, but on the other they often seem to ignore the systemic, incredibly complex nature of the Earth’s biosphere (as postulated by the Gaia hypothesis and other creative scientific interpretations). We cannot know, at this time, how the planet as a whole is going to react and adapt to the threat posed to its stability by greenhouse gases. I therefore think it is irresponsible to spread panic and irrational behaviour in the context of climate change, especially with respect to the Copenhagen summit (as if one meeting decided forever on the fate of the world). Am i wrong?
[The Greenius: Yes Georges, you are wrong. You do not grasp where we are in the timeline. We needed to start taking drastic action 12 months ago. I'm afraid it's you people who are afraid of telling people the cold, hard truth who are hurting us most. I believe it is irresponsible in the face of what's happening to urge more caution and kid gloves. It's time for a slap in the face and a kick in the ass. We've tried your method of motivating people. It doesn't work and it dooms us.]
2) I wonder if it’s wise to support the notion that concerning the philosophy of life there are just two monolithic blocks: the good altruistic green guys caring about the future and the bad selfish profit makers (‘evil empire’). Again, reality is presumably more complex. Even the managers of the carbon-based economy have families and think about the future; [Greenius: I have seen very little evidence of this] many of them are probably open to new ideas concerning healthy investment, and some of them are already adapting their activities to the needs of a holistic economy. Those people should be sought out and encouraged, shouldn’t they?
[Greenius: How much longer will you allow the coal and oil industry workers to put their own paycheck against the health and well being of the rest of us? Should I be equally worried about the fate of mercenaries who want to drive trucks in Iraq for a big payday too? These greenhouse gas spewing industries and their workers have known for decades how lethal the impacts of their products are. They have never cared. They have ALREADY sold out their families for money. You can seek them out and encourage them if you want. I would rather put them out of work and force them to stop killing people. You just don't understand the stakes or the sense of urgency necessary here in 2009 Georges. We have already used up the time you want to spend worrying about the wrong people.
You seem like a nice person, but nice people will not save us. Until people like you wake up and recognize the reality of the situation we're in, then you're just wasting our time with words when you should be out in the streets doing something that will reverse the course we're speeding down.]
Dear Joe, i wish you all the best with your incredibly important work, and i hope that many other gifted human beings will be inspired by what you do and follow suit.
Georges
[Greenius: If only wishes could save us now, Georges. But we need to be working full time now, not wishing on a star. 20 years from now the primary kids you're currently teaching will not accept that when you had your last best chance to do the right thing - you were urging caution.
We do not need another Neville Chamberlain we need a Winston Churchill and we need him today.]