October 23, 2009

Make Your Own MoJo Climate Cover!

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Still here? Okay. If you’re sick of the political inaction (or worse) on the most important issue of our time; if you think your kid or your cat is the cutest ever; if you really need to one-up those relatives who always send out those perfect family greeting cards; or if you’re frustrated by stick-figure cover models made possible only via the magic of Photoshop; well, Mother Jones is here to help.

 

We’ve made an app that lets you put your kid/cat/aunt/whatever on the cover of our issue devoted to the political and economic changes that climate change will bring. Send it to your friends, your members of Congress, even President Obama. We’ll feature some on our site (if you give us permission, of course).

 

This is just one (fun) part of our efforts on this topic. We’re also pulling together a broad collaborative effort between many prominent news organizations to cover this topic better than any of us could on our own. (Read an interview on this initiative here.) In a few weeks we’re sending 350.org founder and MoJo contributor Bill McKibben, MoJo DC bureau chief David Corn and reporter Kate Sheppard to Copenhagen to cover the global climate talks. There, they’ll team up with other news organizations, and even comedian Eugene Mirman, to give the conference the kind of fearless coverage it deserves.

 

We need your help to support our coverage. To send Bill, David, and Kate to Cophenhagen and keep the heat on. Imagine what it would mean if we hadn’t exposed how ExxonMobil has been funding climate change denialists. Or how the US Chamber of Commerce inflated its membership numbers as part of its anti-climate initiative (reporting that’s been hailed by the Washington Post,  Rachel Maddow, and the New Yorker, among others). Or why seemingly disparate weather issues have scientists so worried.

 

So please consider donating to Mother Jones. As a nonprofit, we depend on you to respect and support the kind of work we do. And when it comes to the climate, all of our futures hang in the balance.

 

Oh, and… go make your cover! And if you like it, tell your friends.

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We just wrapped up a shorter-than-normal, urgent-as-ever fundraising drive and we came up about $45,000 short of our $300,000 goal.

That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June.

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