As you all know, at JAiB we tend to tackle the most serious and critical issues facing the world on a daily basis. Things like the horrific mistakes being made in the App Store, Google Voice app scandals, and even earth-shaking topics like which is currently the greatest and shiniest new iPhone Twitter app.
So once in a while it ‘s nice to be able to join in a purely fun and trivial initiative like Blog Action Day 2009, and touch on the lighthearted subject of Climate Change, which is the focus of this year ‘s Blog Action Day.
OK, lame attempts at humor aside “ we ‘re very happy to have had a timely reminder from our friends at KRAPPS last night about this great effort by the blogging community round the web, and to have got a chance to join in.
Here ‘s a little bit on what Blog Action Day is all about, and the focus this year:
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.
This year ‘s Blog Action Day topic is Climate Change. It ‘s one of those huge issues that impacts all of us, but that somehow can also manage to be forgotten too much as we go about our daily lives.
It ‘s great to hear that this year ‘s Blog Action Day has been so strongly embraced by bloggers round the world, including some very notable ones
October 15th is finally here and nearly 10,000 bloggers around the world are writing about climate change today for Blog Action Day 2009!
At the stroke of midnight we got off to a great start when UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown surprised us with a Blog Action Day post on his blog saying that "climate change is the biggest threat to all our futures."
From there we have seen thousands of interesting posts from bloggers in 150 countries. The Official Google Blog provided a green tour of their campus, Gadling is featuring green travel posts all day, and Grist has a great round-up of some of the best posts thus far. Nonprofits including Oxfam, Greenpeace , 1Sky and TckTckTck have all put up new posts. Blog Action Day has been the top Google blog search today and CNN just wrote an article about us!
Happily, there are some iPhone apps that can come to your aid if you decide you ‘d like to pay a little more attention to green issues, whether round the world or just around your own household. Everything from apps that help you measure and reduce your own carbon footprint or help you find carpooling partners
To others that offer daily tips on living a more green lifestyle
I think my favorite that I ‘ve spotted today, and that I ‘ ‘ve bought for my daughter, is A Real Tree. The app has some fun little touches in it, but here is its key feature:
When you buy A Real Tree app, a real tree gets planted. A Real Tree trees are planted in twelve countries fighting deforestation: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Burundi, Senegal, Zambia, India, Phillippines, and Haiti.
The app is a partner of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Today ‘s initiative also lead me to pick up The Green Lemur app, one of those that offers daily tips on living green.
There are some great lists of lots of green and environmentally aware apps all around the web. Here are just a few that are worth a look:
http://theappleblog.com/2009/03/25/go-green-8-iphone-apps-to-help-save-the-planet/
http://www.ecosalon.com/green-apps-iphone/
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-green-iphone-apps/
I hope you all get a chance to check out lots of the good Blog Action Day 2009 posts round the web today, and to do a little thinking on climate change.
Anyone want to share any favorite green apps, or habits you ‘ve got into to help the environment around you?
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