Interview with Top-Blogger Michael from Treehugger.com

Treehugger.com, a webzine growing in popularity everyday, is an information source on modern ideas to the age old crisis of environmental responsibility. It puts a today attitude to concerns like recycling and polution and is known all over the world. Fast becoming a renown source of information on all things ecological. One of their most popular writers is Michael Graham Richard, a 24 year old Canadian. The French speaking native learned English from music and the Internet. He recently sat down for an interview.

Do you remember the first weblog you ever read?

Unfortunately, I don't. I've been thinking very hard about this
question and I'm pretty sure that it must have been political/news
blogs not too long after September 11, 2001.

Why did you start blogging?

I started blogging part-time in 2003 on a personal blog on Blogspot
mostly to share a few cool things I found on the Internet and to have
an archive of these things for when my memory failed me.

Later, in late 2004 and early 2005 I started to write more about the
environment. I mostly did roundups of solutions and positive news I
found, and I was noticed by a writer from TreeHugger.com (a blog I was
reading daily) who asked me if I would like to write for them. I
started doing exactly that on May 17, 2005.

I started to get more and more involved with TreeHugger.com. Rapidly,
I was thinking about it day and night, writing a lot each day and
trying to help with behind-the-scenes projects.

In February 2006, while I was nearly at the end of my law studies (I
have two degrees, one in Civil Law and one in Common Law - the system
is a bit different from the US here in Canada), I started talking with
Graham Hill, the founder of TreeHugger.com, about becoming a full-time
blogger. On March 1, 2006, I officially started full-time as editor of
TreeHugger.com. By that point I was almost doing that job even if it
wasn't official, so the transition was fairly smooth for me.

What do you hope people take away from your blog?