Blog Action Day 2008 is a grass roots effort where bloggers and people who create podcasts and videocasts can help spread awareness and start a conversion on a global scale.
The date for blog action day is October 15th, and the focus is on Poverty. If you have a blog or podcast or videocast, sign up and help spread awareness by sharing your views on poverty, and helping to start a global discussion.
The frequently asked questions page for Blog Action Day has a number of ideas on the kinds of topics that you can post about if you participate, and what I like about their list of ideas is that they want you to post something on topic to what your blog is about. Thinking about a topic here for political diamonds, I see many options.
It’s exciting to see an effort like blog action day, and it shows how many people can work together to have their voices heard. I hope to hear yours…
Added – Hat tip to Adam Shake of Twilight Earth, for the following video:
A new approach at Political Diamonds – I’m going to try to write some posts that share news and articles that I find interesting.
Inalienable Rights for Endangered Animals
Ecuadorians are considering a new constitution that would protect the habitats of endangered animals such as jaguars, spectacled bears, brown-headed spider monkeys, and plate-billed mountain toucans. How well will the government of Ecuador manage these new rights?
The NPCA website, Do Your Part for Climate Friendly Parks allows people to check their carbon footprint, and pledge their reductions in that footprint to specific national parks, including a number of steps that you can take to reduce your carbon footprint.
Navy Sonar Testing and Protection of Whales and Dolphins
Growing up, I’m not sure that I knew what a good thing I had going. My mom and pop always had big gardens in the back yard, and we had more fresh fruits and vegetables than we could handle, of many different varieties. We had our own little orchard in the back yard too, with apples, pears, apricots, and cherries.
My parents would get up early in the morning, before the working day began, and spend time together in the backyard planting and weeding and nurturing. Many days throughout the year, they would come inside from the garden with a harvest in their arms, and mom would can a lot of stuff that we didn’t eat fresh, so that we could have the fruits of their efforts in the winter months.
They don’t have as large a garden these days, but they still like to plant around the house, and everything they eat usually has something fresh in it, even if it’s the herbs that share space around the house in flower beds.
When I read about topics like crop diversity, those gardens bring back some pretty pleasant memories. The miracle of plants taking sustenance from the earth and from the rain is one that we take too much for granted.
