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Some green reading to wrap your weekend or start your Monday ...
Last Monday's Blog Action Day exceeded everyone's wildest expectations . Over 20-thousand blogs actually took part, with over 23-thousand Blog Action Day posts tracked by Google Blog Search. There were so many excellent posts, it's tough to nail down anything approximating a "best of" selection.
A few which stood out in Lighter Footstep's feed reader: Brian Clark's beautiful post on The Butterfly Effect at Copyblogger; 21st Century Citizen with Are You Here to Help; Zen Housewife's Being the Change; Conversation Agent's guide to green social media; Environmental Change Through Photography at andipants; eMoms at Home's 10 Green Business Tips to Help Prevent Global Warming; No Impact Man's What No Impact Feel Like After 10 Months; and a very thoughtful compilation of what Read/Write Web considers the Top 35 Environmental Blogs, in which we were pleased to be included. Lighter Footstep's contribution is here. We're already looking forward to next year.
The Nature Conservancy -- one of Blog Action day's official charities -- dropped something of a bombshell this week: an unprecedented debt-for-nature swap which will forgive $28 million dollars in foreign debt owed by Costa Rica to the United States in exchange for preserving key tropical forests for the next sixteen years. If you'll forgive the cliché "win-win," it's a highly creative solution that works for everyone.
So does the attractive new layout at Queercents look vaguely familiar? It should: Nina and the gang are valued members of our blogging neighborhood. They've been adding more and more green posts to their usual lineup of financial advice -- after all, being kind to the environment makes good "cents." Check their post, Stop Using Plastic Bags.
And a ton of cool links and videos this week on our sister site, ecoTumble, including a big setback for Cape Wind, $90 a barrel oil, detoxing Apple's popular iPhone, and why meat eaters are less attractive to the opposite sex. Subscribe ecoTumble's RSS feed here.
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One person has commented on this article. 1. Look for the little guys
Guest, Guest I'd love to see a feature on the "little guys" who took the time to blog that day. The bloggers who aren't making money and don't get a lot of traffic. Any thoughts on doing a round-up of those? |
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