The ICI Experience:

Right now, at the G8 summit Japan, Canada, and the United States are blocking discussion of targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Our friends at Avaaz.org are taking out an ad in the Financial TImes tomorrow and have started a petition demanding responsible leadership - the ad is funny, but the situation couldn't be more serious. Click on the ad to see it full size. Click on the title of this blog post to sign the petition. How many people have to become chronically ill or die before we take effective action?

20,603 Blogs Participated 23,327 Blog Posts (Results obtained using Google Blog Search) More general stats at http://BlogActionDay.org . I searched on "Blog Action Day" and the different chronic illnesses that I wrote about, also using Google Blog Search. Turns out I didn't have a whole lot of company. Here are my results. On Blog Action Day there were: 2* blog posts Fibromyalgia 2 on Chronic Illness 1* on Gulf War Syndrome 1* on Endometriosis 2* on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity 2 on Food Allergies 0 on Temporal Mandibular Joint Syndrome 1* on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 1* on Myalgic Encephelitis *including me Actually, some of my topics didn't get picked up by the search and I don't know why and I don't know enough to figure it out and correct it. The learning curve. I wish it would curve faster. It would be interesting to see if the number of people writing about environmental illness (EI) when asked to write about the environment increases as time goes ...