{"id":614,"date":"2009-10-15T01:22:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/off-topic-bad09-blog-action-day-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:38:16","slug":"off-topic-bad09-blog-action-day-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/off-topic-bad09-blog-action-day-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"[OFF TOPIC] #BAD09: Blog Action Day on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/climate-change1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"177\" \/>So here&#8217;s something new: today, on 15 October 2009, is the global <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogactionday.org\/\">Blog Action Day<\/a>. This year&#8217;s iteration is targeted to raise awareness to Climate Change. I would like to use the opportunity to alert everyone to the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan&#8217;s appeal to fight climate change. As part of his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeforclimatejustice.org\/\">Time for Climate Justice<\/a>&#8221; initiative, he teamed up with the good folks of Duran Duran (a mobile link after all: they were amongst the first artists with who I worked on activating mobile as a platform to enhance fan communication back in 2002!), Lily Allen, All American Rejects and countless others, etc to produce a new version of Midnight Oil&#8217;s &#8220;Beds are Burning&#8221; (it is a free and you can download from iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=332754461&amp;id=332754130&amp;s=143442&amp;uo=6%20\">here<\/a>) and produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBTZOg6l6cA&amp;feature=player_embedded\">video<\/a> to go with it. Download it, share it, watch it, act!<\/p>\n<p>So, come on, overcome your fashionable cynicism, do something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s something new: today, on 15 October 2009, is the global Blog Action Day. This year&#8217;s iteration is targeted to raise awareness to Climate Change. I would like to use the opportunity to alert everyone to the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan&#8217;s appeal to fight climate change. As part of his &#8220;Time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[756],"tags":[852,851,853,855,854,856],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-756","tag-bad09","tag-blog-action-day","tag-climate-change","tag-duran-duran","tag-kofi-annan","tag-time-for-climate-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-9U","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}