Can we take your picture?

Category: Stories

A trio of visitors from Atlanta stopped Margo and I as we were heading back down to where I had parked the trike. They asked if we were the ones responsible for all the chalk lines. We admitted to it and they said that they had been following the lines and were curious as to who was doing it, and of course why. After asking to take our picture (and we theirs) and explaining the project to them and having a conversation about climate change as a global and local event, we said our goodbyes and carried on our way. As we were walking away we overheard one person say, hey did you see that inconvenient truth film by al gore? Then they launched into a full conversation about climate change -yay! mission accomplished. One of the goals for the project was to get people to have real conversations about climate change and to feel comfortable having those conversations. One way to do this was to get them to happen at unexpected moments in unexpected places. Do you think this family from Atlanta expected to have this conversation while walking down a street in Tribeca?