{"id":826,"date":"2007-10-30T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2019-09-19T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:00:42","slug":"blog-action-day-environment-the-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/blog-action-day-environment-the-aftermath-826","title":{"rendered":"Blog Action Day - Environment: the aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promoted and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/the-singapore-environment-blog-action-day-790\">participated<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogactionday.org\/\">Blog Action Day<\/a>: the Environment. <\/p>\n<p>But I'm having second thoughts about the effectiveness of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there was a lot of interest and support for the day. From Nielsen Buzzmetric's Blogpulse, we saw a surge for the topics \"Blog Action Day\" and \"the environment\".<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/blog-action-day.gif' alt='Blog Action Day' \/><\/p>\n<p>However, one definition of the success of the event would be an increase in interest concerning the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati shows a declining trend in posts about the environment, which <em>continued<\/em> after the Oct 15 spike.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/environment.png' alt='Environment - Technorati' \/><br \/>\n[The above was captured on 30th Oct 2007.]<\/p>\n<p>So maybe it was another exercise like the recent music festival for the environment that resulted in tonnes of garbage left in most venues where it was held.<\/p>\n<p>I'm all in favour of events that raise consciousness - but the best thing we can do is change our day-to-day activities.<\/p>\n<p>So go sell that SUV and work from home...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the recent Blog Action Day have a lasting effect on people's awareness of environmental issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12127,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}