Social Networking Sites a Great Way to Raise Awareness of Global Warming
You may have heard about the global warming campaign that WAYN founders set up on the website. The campaign includes a global warming profile, which allows members to make a pledge to combat global warming. Well to date, there have been over 400,000 pledges!
I first found out about this via an email from Peter and Jerome (the WAYN founders). The email, sent on 23 March, indicated that over 300,000 pledges had been made by Easter weekend. This works out to be over 10,000 pledges a day. By the time I read the email and checked the site, there were over 400,000 pledges. As I write this 401,710 pledges have been made.
I think this is a great result. At the very least, people are becoming aware of the issue and are thinking about things they can do to help combat global warming.
Also, Peter and Jerome are continuing to look for new ways to help. Here’s what they said in their most recent email:
We will continue to engage with organisations and governments to find out other ways in which our members can make a difference, and will keep you informed of our progress.
WAYN, which stands for “Where Are You Now?” is a social networking site for travelers and has over 10 million members worldwide.
With the success of WAYN’s global warming campaign, it would be good to see other social networking sites taking similar steps to help raise awareness of environmental issues such as global warming.
Tags: Global Warming, WAYN
February 5th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Mr Silverstone provides a tremendous amount of scientific evidence from tree experts who have conducted separate ten year studies on the behaviour of trees and their growth patterns to support his argument. The results go against commonly accepted ideas, that the major influence on trees is temperature. In researching his book, Mr Silverstone was surprised by the results, “I set out to discover if trees were influenced by lunar cycles, but I quickly discovered that not only do trees follow the cycles of the planets, each tree grows in two weekly cycles related to specific planets, but it is also heavily influenced by the sun.
June 30th, 2011 at 1:12 am
I run a group that teach people regarding global warming. Some people claim that it is not really happening. We believe it is but exaggerated. Either way it is at least to some extent, and is enormously due to cutting down of trees. we are teaching people to spread word that we must plant more tress and never underestimate the relevance and importance of trees to the planet ecosystem.