October 21, 2009

MoJo’s Next Top Cover Models: Our Readers

Here’s a sample of the best user-generated climate covers. Have you made yours yet?

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World leaders are about to start negotiating what’s likely our last best chance to avert catastrophic climate change—a global treaty to bring down carbon emissions. The stakes are huge, and yet so far it’s politics as usual, and conventional wisdom has it that there won’t be a deal.

Want to remind your politicians (and your friends) that this is not about special interests, but the future of all of us? And also have a whole lot of fun? Try our interactive application where you can create a personalized cover of Mother Jones‘ special issue on climate. In less than 24 hours, Mother Jones readers have made close to a thousand covers. Here are some:

Mother Jones CoverDexter
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Mother Jones CoverDJ Hedgehog
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Mother Jones CoverFrosty, Thawing
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Mother Jones Coverme & sadie
Mother Jones CoverJack
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Mother Jones CoverDerek
Mother Jones CoverArnold Flowers
Mother Jones CoverB.C. Squirrel
Mother Jones CoverJackson
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Mother Jones CoverLola
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Mother Jones CoverLiam
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Mother Jones CoverJack May
Mother Jones CoverLiliana
Mother Jones CoverWilford Brimley
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Mother Jones CoverSusu Bereman
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Mother Jones CoverSlow Loris
Mother Jones CoverDylan & Summer
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It is astonishingly hard keeping a newsroom afloat these days, and we need to raise $253,000 in online donations quickly, by October 7.

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Readers also told us to just give it to you straight when we need to ask for your support, and seeing how matter-of-factly explaining our inner workings, our challenges and finances, can bring more of you in has been a real silver lining. So our online membership lead, Brian, lays it all out for you in his personal, insider account (that literally puts his skin in the game!) of how urgent things are right now.

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Getting just 10 percent of the people who care enough about our work to be reading this blurb to part with a few bucks would be utterly transformative for us, and that's very much what we need to keep charging hard in this financially uncertain, high-stakes year.

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