Big Wide World » blog http://www.bigwideworld.org Blogging international studies Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:26:11 +0000 en hourly 1 Hello, still here http://www.bigwideworld.org/2009/06/21/hello-still-here/ http://www.bigwideworld.org/2009/06/21/hello-still-here/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:11:06 +0000 Nathan http://www.bigwideworld.org/?p=66
  • About What is this blog about? I put this blog up...
    • ]]>     My sincere apologies for not doing a better job of maintaining this blog. I have been busy, and when not busy, brain dead. Environment studies continue though the course has proven to be a disappointment, and real life has interfered with my aim to make this an engaging blog on environment, development and sustainability. This they don’t always tell you – blogging can be hard work.

    Soon I hope to have less distractions, and more time to repurpose this site as a developing resource. Bear with me.

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    1. About What is this blog about? I put this blog up...

    ]]>     http://www.bigwideworld.org/2009/06/21/hello-still-here/feed/ 0     Post no.1 – the lofty mission statement http://www.bigwideworld.org/2009/02/08/post-no1-lofty-mission-statement/ http://www.bigwideworld.org/2009/02/08/post-no1-lofty-mission-statement/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:15:27 +0000 Nathan http://www.bigwideworld.org/?p=10 Blue Marble

    NASA's Blue Marble, the most famous image of Planet Earth.

    This isn’t really a lofty mission statement. There’s nothing worse than the weight of expectation to crush a blog before it has even had a chance to settle in. You know a blog has settled in when it a) appears on Google, b) attracts dozens of comments a day promoting replica watches and viagra. Apparently some blogs even make money but this one has a snowball’s chance in hell of doing that, so let’s just go with winningly cheeky, hopefully interesting, and goodness knows, once in a while educational.

    The purpose of this blog is to ask questions like

    • are giant mirrors in space a realistic solution to global warming?
    • should gap-year students be encouraged to go and volunteer in poor countries or just vomit their way down the East Coast of Australia?
    • could Barack Obama and Dennis Quaid together actually save the Earth?
    • what is the environmental impact of all of the blogs about the environment?
    • must all technology now be tested by Stephen Fry before going on sale?
    • what sort of minefield do you walk into when using words like sustainability and ethics?
    • is recycling a waste of time now that China is bulging at the seams with our rubbish?
    • how can you tell if an NGO is useless, and is a useless NGO better than no NGO?
    • are we really all screwed?

    This first post then fails to answer any of these questions. But you have to start somewhere. See the ‘about‘ page for more info and definitions of key terms.

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