Stories about Environment from October, 2007
Japan: Blog Action Day
James from Japan Probe joined the Blog Action Day by posting on an environmental experiment on Beijing pollution problem.
Trinidad & Tobago, Dominica: Blog Action Day
Haveworld and Living Dominica share their ideas for helping the environment in honour of Blog Action Day.
Iran:Blog Action Day for Environment
Negarakha writes[Fa]that 500 Iranian bloggers support Blog Action Day for Environment on 15th of October.On Monday, October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment.
Peru: Bloggers React to Gore Announcement
Juan Arellano of Globalizado [ES] provides the latest reaction by Peruvian bloggers regarding the announcement of Al Gore as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Pop!Tech Goes International and Multilingual
This year's annual Pop!Tech conference will once again attract 500 notable thinkers from the worlds of science, design, and business. It will also include a cadre of polyglot bloggers eager to spread the intimate conference conversations with the wider blogosphere in Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, and Swahili.
Afghanistan:Father of Saffron
Safrang writes about a man who used to be a opium poppy growing farmer and then he shifted to grow saffron.The blogger says this man who is called “father of saffron” by government, helps other farmers to do the same thing.Safrang has published a photo of this saffron farmer.
More Reactions to Al Gore/IPCC Nobel Peace Prize win
This a follow up to Georgia's post on reactions to Al Gore and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Nobel peace prize win. Reactions from America, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa will be included. We start in America with the reaction by Alex Steffen of world changing who wrote…...
First reactions to the Al Gore/IPCC Nobel Peace Prize Win
Here's a quick roundup up some of the initial reactions from the global blogosphere to today's announcement that former US vice president Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Guyana: Global warming and the day after
Hot weather makes Guyana-Gyal reflect on a possible day-after environmental disaster scenario: “bangbangbang thousands of foreign people banging on we doors…”
Taiwan: Freeway Project
Michael Turton blogs about a 89 km freeway project between Suao and Hualien. The project has been opposed by environmental groups but back to agenda after the recent typhoon attack.
Enviroment Blogs This Week
Solar powered street lights in Capetown, architecture with a modern and green touch in Accra Ghana, questions about companies’ so called ‘green’ credentials, and a cute baby gorilla in Africa. All this, in today's installment of environment blogs on Global Voices. We begin in South Africa with news of solar...
Latvia: Indulis Emsis
Latvian Abroad writes about the bizarre scandal that has caused resignation of Latvia's parliament speaker, Indulis Emsis. Marginalia notes that Emsis also used to be “the world's first Green Prime Minister” – and writes more on what it means to be Green in Latvia, where “nationalism went hand in hand...
Poland, Iraq: Attack on the Ambassador
“Poles are a target in Iraq because they are part of the occupation,” writes the beatroot in a post about last week's attack on the Polish Ambassador in Baghdad.
China: Freak rain floods Hangzhou
Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province is home to the Qiantang River, which each year plays host to the world's largest tidal bore; large enough that it occasionally washes bore-watchers away when it comes. This year's bore has come and gone, but the biggest water story in Hangzhou this season...
Dominica: Thinking about volcanoes
“Dominica is home to one of the highest concentrations of volcanoes on the planet.” Living Dominica wonders if “we are overdue for an eruption here”.
Egypt: Rich Bird Life
Egyptian blogger Mostafa Hussein discovers Egypt's rich bird life in this post.
Ukraine: Kovbasa/Kolbasa
Ukrainiana writes about Ukraine's kovbasa/kolbasa.
Ukraine: Blogger to Read on Chernobyl on BBC
MoldovAnn will be on BBC Radio tomorrow, reading from one of her posts on a trip to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
Brunei: Visit to Pulau Selirong
Lazy Turtle takes us on a trip to the island of Selirong in Brunei Bay.
Bahrain: Divided By Dialect
In Bahrain this week: the disappearing sea, culture shock in the UK, Ramadan drama serials, a diagnosis of leukaemia - and speaking 'Shia'!
Iran:Beautiful Iran
Watch a collection of interesting photos about Iran's nature,history and cities.
