{"id":58102,"date":"2009-10-14T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T12:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordgrrls.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2009-10-14T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T12:25:32","slug":"need-ideas-for-writing-about-climate-change-for-blog-action-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2009\/need-ideas-for-writing-about-climate-change-for-blog-action-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Ideas for Writing about Climate Change for Blog Action Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.blogactionday.org\"><\/span>Do you need ideas for writing about climate change for <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.blogactionday.org\/\">Blog Action Day<\/span> tomorrow? (<a title=\"Blog Action Day\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/blogactionday\">Blog Action Day on Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Everyone isn&#8217;t perfectly politically minded or caught up on all the environmental issues. Also, you may think about the idea of climate change personally versus globally.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I intend to write about it. So, here are some ideas that have come to my mind. I hope they help inspire you if you&#8217;ve been feeling stuck for just the right idea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The seasons, what do you appreciate about having 4 seasons in the year?<\/li>\n<li>What are your favourite winter and summer activities?<\/li>\n<li>What do you think of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canwea.ca\/index_e.php\">wind farms<\/a> popping up?<\/li>\n<li>What do you know about other alternative sources of energy?<\/li>\n<li>Could you (or have you) chosen not to drive your car for the day?<\/li>\n<li>Do you love the rain? What is your favourite memory from a rainy day?<\/li>\n<li>How are winters different now than they were when you were a kid? Do you remember more snow or does it seem about the same?<\/li>\n<li>Have you done things to reduce your carbon footprint?<\/li>\n<li>Have you experienced any extreme weather, like tornadoes?<\/li>\n<li>Do you use solar power for anything?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think climate change could lead to an ice age in the far future?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever seen an iceberg?<\/li>\n<li>Have you head about polar bears drowning due to habitat changes when the ice melts sooner than it used to?<\/li>\n<li>Write about a day far in the future, when climate change and global warming are a reality.<\/li>\n<li>Write about a day in the future when the south is cold and the north is warm as the climate changes.<\/li>\n<li>Do you still think about the ozone hole now and then?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever traveled to a place where there is an extreme climate like the Arctic, the Sahara Desert or the Rain Forest?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s your favourite natural disaster movie?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever been stuck in the snow somewhere?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever seen a flood, even if it was just a ditch outside your home?<\/li>\n<li>Do you conserve water?<\/li>\n<li>Have you tried a water garden (like a pond), terrarium or xeriscaping (a garden designed to need little water)?<\/li>\n<li>Do you ride a bike, could you ride instead of driving to work?<\/li>\n<li>Have you gotten into the local food trend, shopping for food grown within 100 miles of your home?<\/li>\n<li>Have you tried a hybrid car or any kind of alternative fuels?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of weather do you most look forward to each year?<\/li>\n<li>Which season costs the most when it comes to buying new clothes for yourself and your family?<\/li>\n<li>Which season has the most family holidays and why do you think that is?<\/li>\n<li>Are your home appliances energy savers? Do you like them?<\/li>\n<li>Are ebooks energy savers versus reading old fashioned paperback books?<\/li>\n<li>If you ruled the world what would you change to help the climate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2009\/need-ideas-for-writing-about-climate-change-for-blog-action-day\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Need Ideas for Writing about Climate Change for Blog Action Day?\"><p>Do you need ideas for writing about climate change for Blog Action Day tomorrow? (Blog Action Day on Twitter). Everyone isn&#8217;t perfectly politically minded or caught up on all the environmental issues. Also, you may think about the idea of climate change personally versus globally. That&#8217;s how I intend to write about it. So, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[962],"tags":[245,313,1035,1039,28,1046,357,365,367,1079,399,429,43,1170,1171,1197,631,760,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}