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Shea Gunther

Help out a green blogger in need

The green blogosphere is rallying around to help out our friend Derek Markham, a green blogger with a broken ankle and no health insurance. Can you help?

Wed, Feb 03 2010 at 9:00 AM EST

Photo: Kristin A/Flickr
Derek Markham is a friend and well-known green blogger and Twitter star who writes the great green parenting blog Natural Papa as well as contributing to sites like Twilight Earth (which he started with my friend Adam Shake).
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A few weeks ago Derek had an accident that left him with a badly busted-up ankle, which sucks in any situation but more so in this case because Derek doesn't have health insurance.
 

 
Derek, who is the sole breadwinner for his family, has been left with thousands of dollars in medical bills and needs our help. David Quilty from The Good Human, Jerry James Stone from just about every green blog on the web, and Adam Shake of Twilight Earth are rallying the green hoard to help raise money to offset Derek's out of pocket costs. You can read David's original post laying out the whole situation here. Derek also wrote about his accident on Natural Papa.
 
Can you help? Even smaller amounts like $5 start to add up when it's joined by scores of others. I just sent over $50, I'd love to help add to that total with some contributions from my readers.
 
Click this donate button to send your contribution through PayPal (the collection address is SaveTheDerek@gmail.com). Every dollar helps so please be as generous as you can. And thank you.
 

 
 
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Dirtdog2000 02/03/2010 16:01 PM

In Holland everyone has a Governmental Health Insurance, we all pay a small monthly fee, no-one leaves the work-force permanently because of unneeded suffering.. think about it, if we all pay together for our HealthCare, the risk will be spread and costs will be low and constant. It is not needed to have an exploiting party making profit here! Still sorry for your green friend

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rshreeves 02/03/2010 10:57 AM

You always hear people say, "if everyone just gave $1 or $5..." and with the ease of Paypal, almost anyone can painlessly do that.

Derek is a great guy and is always willing to help any of us in the green community or any community for that matter. He gave me his awesome pumpkin cookie recipe last fall to share with my readers here on MNN.

I encourage everyone who can spare a buck or five or fifty to click on through the paypal button. It takes two minutes. I did it on.... More

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