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Environmental News Online blog: The Musical.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_TSXassg8]
A cracking video made to promote a Birmingham blogging venture – Environmental News Online. The site has been run by a group of journalism students working with Paul Bradshaw and the Online Journalism Blog at Birmingham City University. A month or so ago I helped in a session with the students to encourage them to think of ways of using the network effect to reach a wider audience with the blog. Nobody at the time thought of writing a song and putting it on youtube, but it’s a classic example of media as a social object. The video has given me the desire and the excuse to write about what they are doing – to join their conversation.
Nice one. Now would you like to mention this film Podnosh made about cutting co2 in Birmingham on ENO?
Another Video on Climate Change and Cutting CO2 in Birmingham
About the time we were making this video for Be Birmingham, Oxfam were putting up the one below, which uses examples of people in Birmingham who are cutting their CO2.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_1_jGBl550&e]
If your taking steps to cut you carbon footprint you might want to register what you’re doing here – so what you achieve can be totted up to create a city wide accomplishment.
Hat tip Jon Bounds.
Birmingham's Local Strategic Partnership on Youtube: Cutting CO2
[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gvO4_oT5NQE]
Here’s a short film we made last week for Be Birmingham, the city’s recently revamped Local Strategic Partnership.
The film is a short piece which includes Dame Ellen MacArthur talking about the launch of the partnerships CO2 challenge for 2008 – that each of us should look for way to cut 100kg of CO2 in the next year. The yachtswoman is passionate about how we are wasting resources and used her own blog to say how impressed she is with the energy building up here in brum.
In the 100 seconds are also some tips from people on what you might want to do. If you start changing your behaviour to save CO2 you can also sign up here – so your tally is added to the cities huge target of cutting carbon by 60% come 2026. All part of last week’s enjoyable yet controversial Climate Change Festival.
You can comment on the film here and I’d love it if you did.