Blog Action Day: October 16

It’s that time of the year again – get ready to blog for good, all at once, around the world, on a single day in October. Urbe Bloggers will join this adventure for the third time. So first le's look at what Blog Action Day is:

WHAT IS BLOG ACTION DAY?

Since 2007, Blog Action Day has focused bloggers around the world to blog about one important global topic on the same day. Past topics have included water, climate change and poverty.

This year, Blog Action Day will be held on October 16, which coincides with World Food Day, so naturally our 2011 theme is FOOD

Find out more about Blog Action Day


Food is something that we all share in common, but is distinct to each of our cultures. The way we produce, distribute and consume food is crucial to our shared future, and the unhealthy imbalance of food scarcity in developing world and food over-abundance in the developed world is unsustainable for us all.

Blog Action Day 2011 will be an opportunity to open the conversation about how food impacts all of us – individually and globally. Register your blog for Blog Action Day 2011 by clicking the link below:

http://email.change.org/wf/click?c=8qY6kYR0EA2D%2B44OhzYkmQC%2FM6kNCaQv%2F%2Fzh8XljfUICwpTUOr%2FeuJrSItfwVES6vekUPqJgRlxzo%2B2Ko9unXw%3D%3D&rp=vj5MLLhW1zWv0B7K%2FVzNYmuh3%2BFTwCkwk%2Fts%2B7jrnSoBaS4RsshuBQJ9l7GyGEAFKsxR6ydLUTtQuSLJApGpQoy8IkjSIB05gdJHLDnSWLE%3D&up=VPWZYjw6GOzHdwkwPeoX9QiEbzQXX%2FgF9P8njHP5%2BLCwyrd4T8A2CEYqeaozsQHNGnfaXit8c1e1CcYrr6uh6Rh9sZAYSzetV7ff%2BHnqiXROmjgdbZbgmCc4DnXjJGUcmuRcoSWz6nmXNtat2Jbo%2F36KjUg%2FMaDyODTYqngxu7c%3D&u=UTixZshpS3OJuY6WWAmhVg%2Fh1

HOW TO TAKE PART IN BLOG ACTION DAY

To take part in Blog Action Day all you need to do is register your blog and then on October 16, 2011 post your blog about food with the #BAD11 tag. 

Some topics suggestions for your Blog Action Day post.

1. My favorite food

2. The famine in East Africa

3. To be organic or not to be, that is the question.

4. Hunger and poverty.

5. Best and worst food memory

6. Slow Food, Fast Food: What does it actually mean

7. Malnutrition

8. Conflict over Food: Will new wars be about arable land?

9. Is your hamburger hurting the environment?

10. It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe.

11. Vegan, Vegetarian, Meat eater – Which one are you and why?

12. Trading in the future of food. What is the impact of food speculation?

13. Will we be able to feed 9 billion people in 2050?

14. How does Fair Trade food help farmers and communities get out of poverty?

15. Freeganism  – eating the things others throw away.

16. The scandal of  food waste.

17. What is the best way to farm food?

18. Growing your own – the joys and heartache of growing what you eat?

19. Too much or too little taking food to extremes.

20. Strangest thing you have ever eaten.

21. What food means to your culture.

Here you can find some good readings on food: A world of Food

Well, hope you have fun writing in your blogs about this important topic. 
Keep on shining Love and Peace!
Doris3m