What will you do for International Day of Climate Action on Oct. 24? 5

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   JoFerg Posted 3:53 pm
   16 Oct 2009

   I LOVE this stuff !
   
   I'm researching the methods that can be employed to drive grass-roots movements and positive change via the Internet...and I need your valued input...
   
   Change.org's "Blog Action Day" (Oct15) may have been a dry run for getting everyone pulling in the same direction in the BlogSpace for 350 Day(does that work?), but #BAD09 still has lots of instructive value to offer in future initiatives in this space.
   
   My article is a work in progress, but feel free to comment:
   http://envirogy.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/social-climate-for-change/
   
   The internet has been called upon for a few noble causes in it's time...
   I'm hoping that an increasingly socialised Network, can overcome it's security/identity issues and still 'anonymously' gather enough popular force to effect positive political and social change.
   
   Please feel free to review my initial article on the subject, because I hope to pursue this subject MUCH further ! Thanks ;-)
   
   http://envirogy.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/social-climate-for-change/

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   Steven Earl Salmony Posted 6:51 am
   18 Oct 2009

   It is getting "late in the day" for the kinds of timely and necessary change that will afford us a chance of saving the planet and life as we know it. Perhaps on October 24, 2009 somewhere on the surface of Earth we will see evidence of the dawning of new beginnings instead of another day like every other day in which the patently unsustainable, too big to fail or succeed, business-as-usual operations by the gigantic 'corporate citizens' among us, the huge multinational corporations that produced such a colossal ecological mess for the children to clean up, are somehow sensibly replaced with sustainable, right-sized business entities.

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   Steven Earl Salmony Posted 9:25 am
   20 Oct 2009

   If the most greedy among us rule the world much longer, as they do so absolutely in our time, then the children will have precious little to consume and share with another.
   
   At least to me, the leaders of my not-so-great generation of arrogant and avaricious elders is irresponsibly directing the children down a "primrose path" to confront a world that is resource depleted, environmentally degraded and denuded of much of what lives now on the surface of the Earth.
   
   One day the children will look back in anger and utter disbelief at the way so many leaders and followers in my generation, who at least had the chance to try and mitigate the fully expected damages of pollution, climate change, environmental degradation, resource dissipation, biodiversity extinction and overpopulation, abjectly failed coming generations because we chose denial or delay or at best to play around the edges of the global challenges before us and refused to take demonstrably responsible action in the face of clear and present dangers. To sacrifice our 'sacred cows' and 'golden calves', often associated with being intellectually honest, earning wealth by doing productive work, exercising moral courage and making necessary changes, were too damn hard for so soft, satisfied, sanctimonious, selfish and stupid a generation, I suppose.

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   Steven Earl Salmony Posted 10:23 am
   20 Oct 2009

   Somehow there has got to be something amiss when a tiny minority of millions of people who possess virtually everything the world has to offer are still malcontented, demanding their 'inalienable rights' to more, while the vast majority of billions of less fortunate people with nothing more than enough food, clothing and shelter for immediate survival wait for the spoils of others' wanton greediness to trickle down to them. How is this regime connected to (let alone a realization of) democratic principles and practices, justice that is just, fairness and equity?

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   Waidy Posted 12:09 pm
   22 Oct 2009

   As an individual contributor, I am converting my concrete creek into a natural creek (using a biodegradable netting made out of coconut, and do planting with native plants). I believe in doing so, I can improve the water quality in which it flows to where it may affect plants and fish, or be used for drinking, or for wild lifes.
   Waidy Lee

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