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

Blog Action Day 2010!!

My dear Bloggers... October 15th  is a very  important day for bloggers of the world. On that special day world’s bloggers join in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action.

This year theme is CLEAN WATER... what do you have to say about it?.. Register your blog and let the world hear and read your voice on this matter.


Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

On their Blog action site they explain why he selected this heme for this year:

Why Water?

Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us who are subject to preventable disease and even death because of something that many of us take for granted.
Access to clean water is not just a human rights issue. It’s an environmental issue. An animal welfare issue. A sustainability issue. Water is a global issue, and it affects all of us.

 Don't know what to say... well, read about it, check the following links:

• Clean Water Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
• Clean Water Action 
• Drinking water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, let's rock the blogs.. and let our voices heard and read... practice your English and contribute to a better world.

Keep on shining Love and Peace!
doris3m

Blog Action Day ... How did we do?

Thank you for participating in Blog Action Day 2009!

Total Bloggers from Venezuela: 76.
Total bloggers from URBE: 14

These are their blogs... Visit them and learn a little bit more about these important issue: Climate Change. Thaye shared powerpoint presentations, videos and songs.

Patricia Vilchez http://mibookenglish.blogspot.com
Alexis Gonzales http://alexisgonzalezfer.blogspot.com/
 http://t-w-a-o.blogspot.com/
Norma Garcia http://garcianorma12.blogspot.com/
Daniel Medina http://www.danielmedina25.blogspot.com/
Amarilis Martinez http://amarilismartinez.blogspot.com/
aurelina fernandez http://aurelina18.blogspot.com/
Dianheidys Bastidas http://dianheidys.blogspot.com/
Carlos Carrizo http://www.carloscarrizo.blogspot.com/
Iraida Abreu http://iraidaabreu.blogspot.com/
Jose Prado http://joseprado711.blogspot.com/
Maria Ollarves http://ollarvesmaria.blogspot.com/
Ernesto Melendez http://ermelendez17.blogspot.com/
Gabriela Fuenmayor http://gabrielafuenmayor.blogspot.com/

Keep on thinking green... everybody!

Beds Are Burning - TckTckTck Campaign (time4climatejustice)

Taken from Wikipedia...

On October 2 2009, 60 musicians and celebrities from around the world released a free reworked version to highlight climate change issues ahead of the United Nation's talks in Copenhagen. Singers included Lily Allen, Simon Le Bon from the '80s group Duran Duran and Bob Geldof. The former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and French actress Marion Cotillard also added their voices to the cover version. The song is part of Global Humanitarian Forum tck tck tck time for climate justice campaign and is a part of the greater "TckTckTck" project^[3], which aims to draw attention to the urgency of the global warming crisis, by signing a "musical petition" with each download.

It's for the Earth is for our land........! Let's sing it out loud! keep on shining Love and Peace!

HOME (English with subtitles)

Blog Action Day is here! This is an excellent documentary... beautiful to watch and will help us understand what's going on with climate change. What I liked the most is that it tells us what's happening but at the same time, it offers solutions and give us hope... Let's unite small actions to make a difference.

Are you ready?    I am ready! This is another great page to visit and find out about the United Nations Climate Change Conference in COPENHAGEN next December 7th. 18th

Happy Blog Action Day, Bloggers of the world!

* if you get the notice that you can't see it ... just click on the video and watch it in You Tube.

Blog Action Day! URBE says we are here!

Bloggers from URBE... This is an invitation to participate in the Blog Action Day! This year the theme is Climate Change. On October 15th, bloggers from the world will post about this important issue. Let's our blog say what we think about it...



All you need to do is put up a post relating to the topic of climate change on October 15th and link to www.blogactionday.org somewhere in your post. Go to Blog Actio Day site and register your blog. Hope to see you all there...



Climate Change... is happening...Watch the video and leave your comment!


Interesting and powerful ways to get involved in Climate Change  movement:

• Register for the 350.org International Day of Climate Action October 24: www.350.org 
• Learn and act with The Nature Conservancy's Planet Change site: change.nature.org 
• Watch and help promote Current TV's green-themed video journalism at:  current.com/green
• Put yourself on the Vote Earth map and upload your photos, pictures and weblinks to show the world future you want to see: www.earthhour.org/home 
• Join the Greenpeace cool IT challenge campaign to turn IT industry leaders into climate advocates and solution providers:  www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it-challenge

Blog Action Day! Save the world save your big house!!!

Blog action day? what-s that? another interesting question... well, here it-s the answer...
On October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind. Environment!!! What do you think about it? should we be concerned with what-s happening in the world?

Today in class, we talked about Blog Action Day and the environment..... We all know that Planet Earth is our big house and whatever happens to the planet is important to us. We are responsible for what happens in our house. Since the Earth is our house we should keep it clean and beautiful. Global warming is affecting our house. Ice is melting and the water level in seas and rivers is raising to a point that the weather is going extreme and extreme weather is causing a lot of damage and death all around our big house. What can we do to stop global warming?

• Recycling
• carpooling
• stop polluting
• act, care, be awared
• Saving energy... turning off the lights when we go out a room... for example

This is what "Arthus" a 14 year-old student from Vermont has to say about environmental ideas.... Check it out!

Do you have more ideas? let us know by leaving a comment...

In honor of Blog Action Day, Blogger-s people wanted to highlight some of the many Blogger-powered blogs that are focused on the environment, climate change, and sustainability. Want to see more Blog Action Day participants from around the web? Find them on Blog Search.

• Cleantech Blog - Commentary on technologies, news, and issues relating to next generation energy and the environment.
• The Conscious Earth - Earth-centered news for the health of air, water, habitat and the fight against global warming.
• Earth Meanders - Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues.
• Environmental Action Blog - Current environmental issues and green energy news.
• The Future is Green - Thoughts on the coming of a society that is in balance with nature.
• The Green Skeptic - Devoted to challenging assumptions about how we live on the earth and protect our environment.
• Haute*Nature - Ecologically based creative ideas, art & green products for your children, home and lifestyle, blending style with sustainability.
• The Lazy Environmentalist - Sustainable living made easy.
• Lights Out America - A grassroots community group organizing nationwide energy savings events.
• The Nature Writers of Texas - The best nature writing from the newspaper, magazine, blog and book authors of the Lone Star State.
• Rachel Carson Centennial Book Club - Considering the legacy of Rachel Carson's literary and scientific contributions with a different book each month.
• Sustainablog - News, information and personal meanderings related to environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics.
• These Come From Trees - An experiment in environmentalism, viral marketing, and user interface design with the goal of reducing consumer waste paper.