Welcome to the Santa Lucia Chapter
of the Sierra Club

Greg McMillan  gmcmillan@flyingment.com

Chair

Greg is a 6th-generation northern County resident who has lived in the northeastern part of the county for almost all his life. He is acting Chair of the Shandon Advisory Committee and a building contractor specializing in energy efficiency and resource conservation who built the first permitted strawbale house in California. His father Eben and brother Ian were pioneers in the conservation movement in central California. He took their philosophies to heart at an early age and tries to keep alive the momentum they created. He raises grass-fed beef and grows olives on a small ranch east of Shandon.

Patrick McGibney

Treasurer

Patrick grows lavender and other organics on the Carrizo Plain and keeps several hundred thousand honeybees. He spent a decade as a sea captain, and saw first-hand the floating debris islands of the world's trash. He wants to see the County change from policies that result in species extinction, polluting the oceans and air and squandering our resources, and doesn't think SLO County can lead that change by destroying sensitive habitats under the auspices of short term jobs and profits. Renewable energy sources must be sited in areas that do not contribute to species or habitat loss. "We are here on this earth for a blink and should act like the caretakers and the stewards we were meant to be."

Lindi Doud

Treasurer

Lindi is a fifth-generation Californian who was born in San Luis Obispo 59 years ago and earned a degree in Biological Sciences from Cal Poly. Her first backpacking trip with the Sierra Club in the Los Padres National Forest in 1967 changed her life, which has ever since been spent as a naturalist and environmental educator. As such, she has worked at all the local State Parks, Rancho El Chorro, and Kern Environmental Education Program (KEEP), volunteered as a docent, and fought to protect our precious natural places from harm. She is a thoughtful, patient listener to both fellow Sierra Club members and the wisdom of the Earth, and serves as a voice for the voiceless.

Pat Veesart  pveesart@coastal.ca.gov

Member

A 40-year resident of San Luis Obispo County, Pat has formerly served as Chapter Executive Committee member, Chapter Chair, Sierra Club California staff member, Executive Director of ECOSLO, and as a Planning Commissioner for both the City and County of San Luis Obispo. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Los Padres ForestWatch and works for the California Coastal Commission.

Jono Kinkade onojjono@gmail.com

Member

Jono, an activist with Think Outside the Bomb, a national anti-nuclear youth network, first got involved with the Sierra Club with a 10-day summer training program led by the Sierra Student Coalition in Washington State. He led the successful effort to persuade the Mayor of Atascadero to sign the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, making Atascadero into a "Cool City." His two main local interests are responsible land use and a transition to energy that is truly just, clean and safe.

Linda Seeley

Member

An activist, midwife, mother and grandmother who has lived in San Luis Obispo for 28 years, Linda has been the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Santa Lucia Sierra Club for two years. a longtime anti-nuclear activist, a board member of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, legal intervenors in the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in San Luis Obispo, and president of the Terra Foundation, a small NGO sponsoring permaculture training and local gardening initiatives. She is a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner and an advanced facilitator of the Work that Reconnects as developed by eco-philosopher Joanna Macy.