First of all, apologies for yesterday’s paucity of posts - Faith and I went to the Ludlow #Jelly - which was fun and interesting and meant I did really quite a lot of work in a short space of time because it’s so much harder to browse for interesting stuff on the laptop. Also I failed to synch the email accounts from my main machine to my laptop.
Anyone who knows how to synch Mac Mail using Dropbox (and if you aren’t using Dropbox as your off-site save/synch - why are you not?) please let me know. Ditto Firefox.
Anyways, that apart, this piece from the Ecologist caught my eye:
Project Dirt: the eco-web project that’s much more than the Green Facebook…
Forget impersonal internet interactions, Project Dirt is connecting green initiatives in real life to make environmental change at a local level a reality
Social networking sites have moved human interaction into the digital sphere – friends are no longer people you’ve necessarily met face to face and personal worth is judged by the number of names on your profile, not the quality of your relationships with them.
This is just one reason why Mark Shearer is determined his environmental community website Project Dirt will never be the Green Facebook. Its aim is not only to connect local environmental projects in the ether, but also to help people start up or get involved in eco work on the ground.
For those who want to get involved right now, Project Dirt is here
