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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org Hulhumale Maldives. Try the water calculator – the questions are insightful and make you think, and the usage answer at the end may surprise you! org and others. 350 action in Oman Dive Center.

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Real-Time Web Social Action Events: Blurring the Offline/Online Distinction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

org Facebook community has thrown their weight behind the Maldives President by leaving comments on his Facebook page. Then click here to start a Vigil this weekend -- and add it to the global map of thousands (<- there may already be one!). This wasn't just an online petition, it was a new form of solidarity.

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An Unconventional 3-Step Plan To Save the Oceans

Saleforce Nonprofit

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.