Activism

Sunday Collection - Blog Action Day

Last Monday I posted on the environment as part of the first Blog Action Day.

It’s been amazing to see the sheer variety of environmental topics people have written about, and today I’ve collected together all the posts from bloggers who took part that I read regularly or semi-regularly. Some are the big ‘A-list’ blogs, some have a more modest readership. Some are in the ‘green’ blogging niche, some never normally write about it. Here they all are, in alphabetical order:

• At Barnabus Quotidianus, Barney gives us a thoughtful post with some interesting quotes from a Baha’i perspective on the role of religion in our future
• At Bean Sprouts, Melanie encourages us not to become overwhelmed, to look at our local environment and what we can do. She uses a very clever take on Monet’s Le Pont Japonais a Giverny to illustrate her point - see thumbnail right
• Beyond the Fields We Know shares trash can art and actually takes real life action on Blog Action Day
• At Closely Observed, Elaine treats us to a beautiful quote by Joan Chittister, who talks about a Benedictine’s Heart - I think this might just be my favourite Blog Action Day post
• Copyblogger asks us to consider both good and bad possibilities of the butterfly effect
• Don’t Eat Alone writes about mistaken evangelical teaching on the environment and about environmental justice issues
• Downshifting - Path to Simplicity talks about interconnectedness and gives us small steps everyone can take
• Eco Street, whose whole blog is about the environment, spotlights some other writers
• At Entrepreneur’s Journey, Yaro writes about the very frightening water supply situation in Australia
• Hedgewizard’s Diary with customary irreverence takes the radical approach of actually going out into the environment rather than writing about it
• Hippie Sounds gives us an honour roll of green musicians (I love this site - as a bonus check out their other post on Monday and watch Joni Mitchell sing Big Yellow Taxi)
• Jen Lemen tells us about her new downloadable art - no need for her to print up advance copies on paper that may never get used
• At Let It Shine, Anne talks about her love of the natural world (and see video below also)
• The mighty Life Hacker gives us ten readers’ suggestions for greener living
• Lighter Footstep tells us there’s one simple secret - consume less. A bit like losing weight, really…
  
• Musings of a Discerning Woman gives us some interesting links to Catholic teaching on the environment
• No Impact Man has a simple idea for calling upon everyone to change our behaviour
• Darren Rowse at ProBlogger weighs in with some thoughts on our responsibilities as bloggers
• Slow Leadership give us stirring words on the selfishness of individualism and exhort us to, yes, slow down
• Take Joy ran out of time so linked to other posts, including mine - thanks Anita - check out her links, and don’t believe her when she couldn’t think of anything to say about the environment: her whole blog reflects her views
• Leo at the wonderful Zen Habits is one of the leading lights behind Blog Action Day and his five ways to save the world post doesn’t let us down

I feel so inspired, reading all these thoughts and ideas on how we can save this beautiful planet of ours. I hope I haven’t missed out any of my ‘regulars’.

To finish, although this video was not posted as part of the Blog Action Day, it reflects so beautifully the world of which we are all part. Anne at Let It Shine has taken some of her photographs from the trails she’s walked this summer and shared them with us. Enjoy.

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