claudelejuen
Claude Buchanan
Auckland, New Zealand 
Member Since: Mar 22, 2009
Last Login: Mar 20, 2010
Profile Views: 734
Points: 379
Status: back and in good health (2 months ago)
Homepage: www.esd.co.nz/buchanan
Occupation: retired
About Me:
first learned chess at school - never played competitive chess - just a fun thing - taught my 2 sons and grandsons to play basics - I'm retired and in my 70's - love travel - married to same girl after 42 years - still think she's just the greatest - sing in a local acapella choir. Love travelling to countries with different culture - always enjoy the food they have to offer- Whats important to me? My family- and the world environment - especially the Amazon Forest = The forest absorbes all the carbon output of Europe and the world should pay Brazil to preserve this most important forest. Eco Tourism would earn more for Brazil than Mining and farming with all the deforestation of areas that these activities bring. We should I believe place more value on preserving forests than we do on a yellow metal. Time, past time, to change peoples thinking about what they value.