Thursday, October 15, 2009
Blog Action Day
Today is Blog Action Day. The theme this year is climate change. I'm actually a bit of a secret eco-warrier these days (well, kind of). Regardless of whether you believe in man-made climate change, there are some other very obvious environmental issues to be concerned about, including sustainability, waste, and destruction of forests and wildlife habitats. So, here are some 'green' links I would recommend:
- The Green Party (UK) - They're actually not as radical as some people would have you believe, but in addition to the obvious environmental credentials, I like a lot of their policies about things like community and social justice etc etc.
- Greenpeace - Whether or not you agree with some of their tactics, they are quite effective campaigners, and have a lot of very valid things to say about big business and the political process. I particularly like their recent 'manifesto' 12 policies to save the climate and our planet, which contains some really straightforward and sensible proposals for ending the complete mess we're making of the planet.
- The Guardian's 10:10 campaign, which aims to get people reduce their carbon emissions by 10% by 2010, and thereby demonstrate that actually, it's pretty easy for any of us in the industrialised world to reduce our environmental impact. The focus is on carbon emissions, but many of the way to cut carbon have other environmental benefits - eg: reducing energy consumption, reducing waste and landfill, reducing usage of fossil fuels (flying, cars etc), and so on.
- Friends of the Earth - a bit like Greenpeace, but less in-your-face ...
- The Fairtrade Foundation - although this doesn't explicitly address environmental issues, it addresses social issues which in turn empowers people, and this can have a beneficial knock-on effect on their use of - and attitude towards - their environment.
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