Sunday, December 20, 2009

BlogHer Announces "Earth Day, Every Day" Community Initiative, Featuring Exclusive Audio Interviews With Anna Lappé and Governor Christine Todd Whitman

Earth Day action appearance bloggers above assorted affair areas administration applied means to abutment BlogHer's Goal to Go Green in 2008.

Palo Alto, Calif. -- BlogHer, Inc. (www.blogher.com), one of the top women's online networks and the Web's number-one adviser to blogs by women, today appear a two-part podcast alternation that focuses on the environment. The aboriginal part, appear today, is an account with author, television personality and aliment activist Anna Lappé. The additional interview, with above New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, will be appear on Earth Day, April 22.

The podcasts highlight that humans from all ideologies can accomplish the planet a antecedence and can acquisition means to accomplish a difference. These interviews are a able accompaniment to BlogHer's month-long association action to altercate the means we can crop environmentally-conscious action.

The BlogHer community's absorption in ecology issues continues to grow, as associates seek advice about how they can alone contribute We're aflame to apprehend from Anna and Christine about their efforts worldwide, and how we can anniversary go blooming in our circadian lives. The altitude crisis affects every individual one of us. Thankfully, there are means we anniversary can be allotment of the solution, with every chaw we take I am admiring to see the breath and alarming BlogHer association allotment means to crop a angle and assure the environment. "The BlogHer community's absorption in ecology issues continues to grow, as associates seek advice about how they can alone contribute," said Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer co-founder and arch operations officer. "We're aflame to apprehend from Anna and Christine about their efforts worldwide, and how we can anniversary go blooming in our circadian lives."

Lappé is the co-founder of the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund, which supports the actualization of active capitalism common through accepted apprenticeship and grant-making. In accession to accommodating in the BlogHer 'Earth Day, Every Day' program, Lappé today launched Take a Bite out of Climate Change, her own Web action to advice humans apprentice about the access amid all-around abating and the aliment on our plate. Her Bite Blog will account her adventures as she campaign the globe, visiting altitude change and aliment hot spots and administration accurate action account for all of us to accomplish climate-friendly aliment choices. Learn added at www.takeabite.cc.

"The altitude crisis affects every individual one of us. Thankfully, there are means we anniversary can be allotment of the solution, with every chaw we take," said Lappé. "I am admiring to see the breath and alarming BlogHer association allotment means to crop a angle and assure the environment."

Governor Whitman is the President of The Whitman Strategy Group (WSG), a consulting close specializing in activity and ecology issues. She aswell co-chairs the Republican Leadership Council (RLC) in its mission to abutment fiscally conservative, socially advanced candidates and to accost the chat Republican. Governor Whitman was the 50th Governor of the State of New Jersey, confined as its aboriginal woman governor from 1994 until 2001. She again served in the chiffonier of President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January of 2001 until June of 2003. She will be speaking at a Yale University anniversary for the bazaar of President Theodore Roosevelt's 1908 Conference on April 17-18, to altercate means of ambidextrous with all-around altitude change.

In accession to featuring podcasts with Lappé and Governor Whitman, BlogHer's 'Earth Day, Every Day' attack will accord BlogHer associates an befalling to participate in assorted events, such as appointment videos that detail what blooming agency to them; blogging about means they are acknowledging Earth Day; and for those who adulation photography, BlogHer will be announcement user-submitted attributes photos absorption on the acknowledgment of Mother Nature.

The Anne Lappe account can be begin at the afterward hotlink at http://www.blogher.com/podcast-blogher-talks-anna-lapp.

About BlogHer
Founded in February 2005 by Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, BlogHer's mission is to actualize opportunities for women who blog to accompany exposure, education, association and bread-and-butter empowerment. BlogHer provides the number-one association and media arrangement of blogs by women via a association hub (http://blogher.com), anniversary conferences and an bartering arrangement of added than 1,200 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. BlogHer provides the accomplished above agreeable on a ambit of topics, with all blogs always edited to accommodated austere beat standards, including agreeable quality, chic appliance and blog frequency.

Contacts:
Jade Lofton
Racepoint Group
jlofton @ racepointgroup.com
415-694-6703

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer Inc.
elisa @ blogher.org
408-504-5708

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