It’s not just the climate that is changing these days. So is the Green Blog website… Yes. I know. That was an awful introduction to our new website design. Sorry!

Besides a brand new design for Green Blog the biggest new things is our new comment system which have received a major overhaul (you can now reply, give reputation etc!) and that we have given Twitter an prominent place on the site.

In the coming days we will also give you the possibility to change the frontpage layout. But more on that later!

With this new design we will also introduce Apture (that’s an Apture link right there!) in our blog posts. Apture allows you to dig deeper into a subject without ever leaving the blog post. When you click on any link marked by the icons , , or , you will be able to view video, reference materials, images and other related media.

Your comments are your voice and so far your voice has been lost into an endless void of anonymity. IntenseDebate brings your identity into the light by providing you with a user profile and comment history. With an IntenseDebate account you will have a reputation attached to your identity that is displayed whenever you make a comment. The reputation value serves as a quick overview of your comment history and is based on the quantity and more importantly the quality of the comments you have made.

Hopefully you will enjoy this new, and much faster, website design. If not you can always rage about it using our new comment system!

You can now find us mini-blogging, posting updates, commentaries and links on Twitter. If you got a Twitter account just go to http://twitter.com/envirospace and follow us!

We are interested in everything related to the environment and politics. So if you twitter about those topics please post a comment here with a link to your Twitter profile so we can “follow” you.

Alright, now it’s time to get a bit more personal (for the first time ever on Green Blog). The reason for the lack of updates here recently is because my computer has broken down. And because of that I have been unable to post any new posts on the blog. Hopefully this computer mess will be sorted out in the coming week. I will keep you all updated about this via our Twitter page, as well as on Enviro Space.

If you have tried to contact us before and received no reply it’s probably because I haven’t been able to read your email. If you got any pressing issues, questions or messages related to Green Blog please try to contact me over at Enviro Space by sending me a personal message.

Our old environment forum had grown up and we thought it needed its very own home. So, if you haven’t already noticed, our forum is now located at http://www.enviro-space.com

Take a look at our new forum design and tell us what you think. In the coming weeks we will introduce the possibility to create a blog for all of our Enviro Space members.

If you haven’t already registered, do so now! Registration is free and takes just a few seconds.

I hope you haven’t missed our environment forum where you can interact with other like-minded people and discuss everything imaginable. We also plant trees for every hundred members that sign up for a free forum account. So really, there is no reason not to join!

Here are some interesting topics from the forum worth highlighting this week:

Buying Local in a Recession, How will increasing prices affect our consumption patterns?

10 signs you have gone way to green. “Eco snobbery happens. Don’t let it happen to you!”

And here is one of our most active forum topics (it has received over 15000 views): Why is climate change not in the USA primaries?

As you read this the Olympics in Beijing are in full action, as well as in our forum. The latest Olympic related forum topic created talks about NBC Beijing Olympic set being air conditioned – outdoors.

Create your free forum account now, it only takes a few seconds to register!

As you might have noticed by now, the summer has finally arrived for us here on Green Blog. That means the posting level will be low for another couple of days, until its starts to rain, of course. Instead of making just a dull and uninteresting post about our wonderful summer holiday I want to share with you two interesting emails we’ve received during the past days:

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It’s finally here!

Green Blog has been around for one year now and we felt it was time to give it some new, more modern, clothes. And with clothes I mean a brand new website design.

We like the new design and we really hope you will too. If not you can come and whine and vent out all those bad words in this forum thread. Hopefully we will find all site bugs and errors before you do. If not, please let us know about them in our green forum or by sending us an email. Thank you!

Today Green Blog has been online for one year. A lot of things have changed and happened since the start last year.

After only a few months online Green Blog changed from only covering green web hosts to become a multi-author environment blog covering all kinds of “green” topics from around the world.

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Our green forum has reached 101 members! And just like we promised Green Blog will plant two trees to celebrate this.

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Hi!

My name is Kim Rowe and I am the Co-Creator and Producer of golivegive.com, a green volunteer travel show.

We want to show people how they can vacation green and volunteer while traveling. We shot our first episode in Los Angeles and provided viewers with a green hotel, organic restaurant, eco-friendly fashion and a volunteer option they can do in a day.

We will, from now on, be publishing our episodes right here on Green Blog for you to enjoy. You can check out the first episode below or on golivegive.com.

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Do you want to help us plant a tree, or two? Sure you want.

As we all know planting trees can help fight climate change and poverty. And now you can help out to plant trees, for free!

Our green forum currently only has 85 members. We want more people to find out about this friendly forum community. That’s why we will plant one tree two trees for every hundred members that sign up, starting from today. That means we only need 15 more new members until we can plant our first trees.

So, invite your family, friends and co-workers and help us plant trees!

Tree-Nation.com and WWF will plant our trees. They are supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, so you can safely trust that this is legit.

You can read more about this in our forum.

It only takes a few seconds to register an account and it’s free. Thank you!

Update 1: We will now plant TWO trees for every hundred members that registers on our green forum.

Update 2: Two trees have been planted – Thank you!