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Guest Post by Christina Chan: Why Solving Climate Change Begins with Humanity

Oct. 15, 2009

Note: Simon Owens approached me after I wrote this post about Blog Action Day. He emailed me about his work with CARE, a non-profit organization fighting global poverty and dedicated to helping people in developing nations adapt to climate change. He suggested I write about the organization, to which I replied and asked if he’d [...]

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How Climate Change Will Link Global Bloggers

Sep. 30, 2009

To the naysayers about global warming and climate change, I say how dare you.
Climate change is no laughing matter. Winters are getting shorter, summers are getting hotter, tidal action is getting choppier, and the air streams are getting colder. If we don’t do anything, we risk losing the planet to everything that we hold precious [...]

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Why Twitter Goes Green and Why You Should Too

Jun. 17, 2009

In accordance with Iran’s flag, its World Cup qualifying soccer team, and thousands (millions?) of Iranian residents wearing green in opposition to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s supposed fradulent electoral win, Twitter users, too, are going green.
With numerous Iranians sending Twitter updates at the risk of arrest and death, global Twitterati are taking notice, retweeting significant updates, and [...]

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How Ethiopia is Changing its Food Policy

Apr. 1, 2009

In direct reaction to the famine, starvation, and death of over 1 million Ethiopians in 1984, scores of American musicians came together in July 1985 to record this famous video that leaped to the top of the US and UK charts. Moreover, over $100 million in funds were raised and contributed by a consortium calling [...]

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Fight Hunger on April Food Day

Mar. 25, 2009

If you are a blogger, please join me on April Food Day.
Responding to the economic downturn and the fact that people are losing their jobs, the editors of Easy & Elegant Life and Pigtown*Design joined forces to create a blogger action day on April 1, 2009, which they’ve called April Food Day.

Echoing their goals, I [...]

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Local Vodka in Newburyport: Why Not?

Feb. 14, 2009

One year ago today, I blogged and suggested Newburyport, Massachusetts be sited for a vodka microdistillery.
Nothing happened as a result of my idea (or to be truthful, Ron Martino’s idea) but perhaps the folks of zip code 01950 ought to reconsider this seriously.
Here’s why…

Ten years ago, the Boston Herald highlighted a group of 30 Massachusetts [...]

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