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Green blog
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Green Blog is a multi-author environment blog. They have daily updates and posts from authors around the world. Green Blog also host a growing green community forum. Green Blog is leaned towards the left, social democracy and ecosocialism. Green Blog encourage people to take direct non-violent action against CO2 emitting sources and protest against the current climate change inaction. Authors Green Blog is a multi-author blog with nearly 20 authors from around the world. The blog also features guest authors on various occasions. * Alice Young (USA) * Artemis Mindrinou (Greece) * Benno Hansen (Denmark) * Carter Lavin (USA, currently lives in Spain) * Christine Reed (USA) * Daniel Harrison (USA) * Dr Gideon Polya (Australia) published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds". He has recently published “[http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/%20%20and%20http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950]”; see also his contribution “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “”. He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others). When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for Peace and for Mother and Child see “[http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NvVV9NY2cqLwKJxdb8JAymVZRA--?cq1&p1 Truth , Beauty & Saving the World - Science, Art & Nuclear, Greenhouse & Poverty Threats]”). * Heather Johnson * Ian Angus (Canada) has been active in movements for social justice since the 1960s. He is editor of the online journal Climate and Capitalism, and a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network. * Jennifer Kaplan * Jesse Herman * Kelly Kilpatrick * Kim Rowe (USA) * Liz Thompson (USA) * Miguel Dias (Portugal) * Shmuel Ben (Israel) * Simon Leufstedt (Sweden) Tree planting program Green Blog has via their community forum Enviro Space an active tree planting program. For every hundred members that register an account in the community two trees will be planted. And for every thousand posts published in the community forum one tree will be planted. So far the Green Blog community members have helped in the planting of 6 trees. The trees are being planted in Sebangau National Park in Central Kalimantan with the help from WWF and NEWtrees, both supported by the United Nations Environment Programme. If you have access to Google Earth you can check out the locations of the trees: * Tree #1: info missing * Tree #3: info missing * Tree #3: (-2.58114 latitude, 114.029665 longitude) * Tree #4: (-2.5810925 latitude, 114.029665 longitude) * Tree #5: (-2.5813775 latitude, 114.0284775 longitude) * Tree #6: (-2.58133 latitude, 114.0284775 longitude) 
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