Posted on October 16, 2009 by rayduff
Hey bloggers,
You did it!
Yesterday you and bloggers in 155 countries across six continents wrote about a single issue that impacts us all, and turned Blog Action Day 2009 into one of the largest social change events ever held on the web.
Your participation helped change the conversation and showed the power of the web to connect [...]
Filed under: Debate, Hedon | Tagged: #bad09, Blog Action Day, Blog Action Day 2009, blogpulse, Climate Change, CNN, David Milliband, Gordon Brown PM, Whitehouse.Gov | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 15, 2009 by rayduff
Yes… the simple way to change the climate – build an incinerator! In fact build lots of them!
Incineration involves the release of high levels of CO2, the main climate warming gas.
Incineration creates toxic emissions and hazardous ash which are potentially harmful.
Reduce the incentive to recycle and re-use waste material – just burn it instead!
Demoralise those [...]
Filed under: Debate, East Yorkshire UK | Tagged: #bad09, Blog Action Day, Blog Action Day 2009, Waste, Waste Incinerator | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 15, 2009 by rayduff
Yorkshire Water were understandably stretched to the limit during the great floods of the summer 2007.
In this YouTube video they explain about their efforts during and after the floods, including a £16m investment in Hull to upgrade and improve their pumping operations which normally feeds waste water through to their treatment facility at Satend near [...]
Filed under: Hedon | Tagged: #bad09, Blog Action Day, flooding, Flooding Summer 2007, Yorkshire Water | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 15, 2009 by rayduff
The floods have changed how I see the world. Whenever it rains you think ‘is it all going to happen again?’
These words from a school student in Hull sum up the fears of thousands of people in Hull and Holderness whose lives were dramatically affected by the summer floods of 2007.
The rainfall in the UK [...]
Filed under: Debate, East Yorkshire UK, Hedon | Tagged: Hull, Environment Agency, flooding, Holderness, Flooding Summer 2007, Flood Map for Hedon, #bad09, Climate Change, Blog Action Day, Daily Mail | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 14, 2009 by rayduff
It is Blog Action Day tomorrow and the Hedon Blog will be posting about Climate Change and particularly the increased threat of flooding. This is a subject that local folk in Hull and Hedon are likely to have first hand knowledge or experience of.
Join the conversation tomorrow – or indeed start today by leaving a [...]
Filed under: Debate, East Yorkshire UK, Hedon, ICT, UK/International | Tagged: #bad09, Blog Action Day, flooding, Thursday 15th October 2009, YouTube | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 26, 2009 by rayduff
An unashamed plug for Blog Action Day on 15th October 2009!
Click to play:
Can you do this in less than a minute?
Filed under: Debate, Just for fun, UK/International | Tagged: #bad09, Blog Action Day, Blog Action Day 2009, Hedon Blog, Jigsaw, JigZone, Thursday 15th October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 24, 2009 by rayduff
Blog Action Day 2009 takes place on Thursday October 15th and Bloggers across the globe are asked to unite on that day in blogging about Climate Change. The Hedon Blog will be ready for this challenge!
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the [...]
Filed under: Debate, East Yorkshire UK, Hedon, UK/International | Tagged: #bad09, Blog Action Day, Blog Action Day 2009, blogging, blogs, Climate Change, Thursday 15th October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
