Eric Snyder's Blog – October 2009 Archive (5)

National Day 'Ochi' / Ohi (Greece)

Marks the anniversary of when Prime Minister Metaxas on October 28, 1940, said `no` (or `ochi` in Greek) to the invasion of Albania by the Italians, thereby entering Greece into the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohi_Day

October 26, 2009

Today is...

Chung Yeung Festival (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
Families visit the graves of their ancestors.

Waste Reduction Week (WRW) Canada Monday, October 19th to Sunday, October 25th.



The 2009 theme, Too Good To Waste, emphasizes conserving earth's resources to make life on the planet sustainable. We humans always talk about "saving our earth; saving our planet", but the planet isn't going anywhere. We just need to make sure that it stays habitable, and maybe even enjoyable, for our species -- humans!



In 2009, the provincial and territorial WRW organizers across Canada are… Continue

I've given Google Wave invites to a few Classroom 2.0 participants and a few folks from the worldwide ReUse movement.

I've been thinking that there could be some mutual benefits to connecting the two discrete communities of people. Perhaps we'll do a bit of playing around with that on Google Wave once a few more folks get connected.

Google Wave certainly seems to have lots of potential.

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web.