Geography and all that Jazz

For the last 3 or 4 years now, I have been involved in posting something on BLOG ACTION DAY on the particular theme of the year. The theme this year is WATER.  The Vimeo video sets the scene... Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day on Vimeo . Change.org | Start Petition Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion around an important issue that impacts us all. Our Goal First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue. By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue. Out of this discussion naturally flow ideas, advice, plans, and action. In 2007 with the theme of the environment, we saw bloggers running en...

Fred Pearce: Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Read this article in the Telegraph last week the night before the CfBT conference, and instantly ordered the book it came from: which arrived this morning. The article tells how Fred traced his son's mobile phone's component parts back to source, and in doing so, explored the world of consumption and the damage that our desires creates. His son Joe, who he describes as a "lanky geography student" died suddenly in 2005, and the book traces some of Joe's possessions. The chapter on China features some incredible descriptions of the growth of factories to satisfy the western (and growing eastern) demand for consumer products. This would be very useful for lower school as well as new AS / A2 spec planning. Also a super chapter on Kenyan beans, and why you might want to carry on buying them. Read the article, and then you'll probably want to order the book. Amazon have it at £7.79 instead of £12.99 (please click through f...