Just returned from celebrating my mother's 70th birthday in Graeagle, CA. My sisters and I had planned a surprise long weekend away with her and our families. However the state of California was hit with huge, unprecedented, wildfires in the days before. We arrived in the picturesque Sierra hamlet to find smoky skies and trees hazed with weird orange light. As an asthmatic who suffers after sitting around a campfire for too long I felt an almost instant physical response and as a chronic worrier about climate change I felt a deep emotional one. It was bizarre beyond belief to be sitting around celebrating as the state burned.Watching my children frolic in the strange grey air.
I still haven't seen any articles talking about the flooding in the midwest and the california fires being a result of climate change, though clearly this is what has been predicted....there seems to be a huge cloud of denial along with the smoke.
Leah Korican
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I'm very glad I came across your blog a few months ago, I love it! I'm always looking for new cool green things happening in the Bay Area.
Sorry I have to leave a comment on one of your blog entry as I couldnt find how to contact you otherwise.
I have a website www.altglobe.com which is talking about what's happening in the Bay area. Actually I would like it to be worldwilde, but hey, you have to start *somewhere* :0) ...and "somewhere" is well....where I live...how convenient!
Anyway I was thinking maybe you would be interested in posting your blogs on our website. All you need to do is creating a profile and let us know you want to post, and then you can actually just *email* your blog whenever you have a new post. It's that easy! The website will take care about linking it to your profile and respect most of your editing (website links, images, fonts...) - yes it will crop out some things like weird smileys or what not -
We have a couple of bloggers who are doing that, it's very convenient and help you with advertising yourself and us with traffic. if you'd like you can check out some here: http://www.altglobe.com/Friends
(Note you cannot have access to any profile until you are registered, but you can see all the articles).
Please tell me how it sounds to you, hope to hear from you soon...
you can contact me at cristele at altglobe.com.
thanks!
Cristele
PS: it's free.
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