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Blog Action Day: SFDO

drbexl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:14:03 +0000

Super Fun Days Out snuck in at the last minute (literally, in UK time). I’d done my blog entry for this blog, and then thought – there’s quite a lot of adrenalin/extreme sports that people can undertake without impacting too much upon the environment, so I pulled together an entry that went live at 11.59pm on the 15th October, for Blog Action Day, although as it’s still 15th October in other countries, they’ll be new entries for a while yet!

Blogs don’t always need to be complicated, and are often a great space for pulling together your ideas… and see, within minutes we’re appearing on here:

And Twitter, of course, has made a great impact on this campaign – check under #BAD09 for posts related to this – unfortunately I haven’t spotted it as a trending topic at any point today… would have thought it would have been!

If you just read a handful of the blogs produced today, there would be plenty of new ideas and tips swimming around!

Blog Action Day: Update

drbexl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:51:15 +0000

At 18:45 BST, this was the number of blogs participating, and the potential number of people who could be reached! Even Gordon Brown is blogging in aid of Blog Action Day! It’s still not too late to join in – I’m not sure at what point it stops being the 15th October anywhere in the world, but you have until then, and here are some useful tips provided on what you could blog about, by those who have organised the day!

Blog Action Day: Climate Change

drbexl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:30:02 +0000

So, here we are, Blog Action Day, and just how many people are blogging about the same topic today?! When I signed up, there were 2,679 sites registered (including the official Google Blog, and Mashable – both sites with HUGE audiences), with an expected reach of 9,010,355 readers!

I thought I’d do what I’m best at – pointing people to other great sources of information, so here we are…

Some interesting links:

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore (Seen this ‘film’, essentially a lecture, very interesting)
Understanding Climate Change: DirectGov
The Climate is Changing, Water Aid
Twinterview: David Miliband, Independent
Climate Change, BBC
Climate Change, Guardian
Climate Change, Wikipedia
Climate Change, Defra
Climate Change, The Met Office
Ecover Products
Climate Change, Oxfam
Climate Challenge: Leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools