There’s a great list of 101 things a designer can do to save the Earth, and it seems appropriate to blog even more about the environment on Blog Action Day.
Here’s a sampling from the list:
85. REPLACE THE CARPET WITH INTERFACEFLOR
70. TELL YOUR PRINTER ABOUT PNEAC
19. SPEC CORN-DERIVATIVE SHOPPING BAGS INSTEAD OF PLASTIC
Today, thousands of bloggers are writing on their blogs how people can make this world better. Blog Action Day is all about bloggers blogging about the environment to raise awareness and engender more action.
You can check out LifeHacker to find ways to hack more green into your life or find out what it’s like to live while making no impact on the environment (it’s quite normal). If you have your own blog let people know your thoughts on the environment!
OneClimate.net is now the home of a social networking site that is focused on, you guessed it, the climate. OneWorld Network is a great source for news from around the world and I’m sure that this new social networking attempt for them will work out just as good as their news has.
I encourage you all to signup!
What the OneWorld UK team has done is to create innovative spaces and useful tools to enable you to communicate your experiences, insights, questions and answers about climate change. We only build the platforms: the content – almost all of it – is yours.
But we couldn’t have built the platforms without the generosity of the many people who believed in the importance of the cause.
If you ever find yourself needing some motivation in your life then you may want to bookmark this site that has 8 simple ways to enjoy life.
Here’s number 8:
8. Celebrate Your Successes
During a normal day we are sure to have some minor successes. Perhaps you have successfully dealt with a difficult customer, made a sale, or received a nice compliment for your work. These aren’t events worth throwing a party for, but why not take a moment to celebrate your success? Share the experience with someone else, reward yourself with a nice lunch, or just give yourself a mental pat on the back.
Video games often get a bad rap in our society so it is rather refreshing to see that the next Sim City game will have more of an environmental conscious. The next version of the game will include global warming as an effect of what the player chooses to do:
The game does not force players to power their cities any specific way, but allows them to make choices, each of which come with advantages and disadvantages. Similar to real-life, the least expensive and most readily-available buildings in SimCity Societies are also the biggest producers of carbon dioxide, an invisible gas that contributes to global warming. Should players choose to build cities dependent on these types of sources for power to conserve their in-game money, their carbon ratings will rise and, at reaching critical levels, the game will issue alerts about the threat of the various natural disasters like droughts, heat waves and others that may strike their cities.