by Andrew Miller
8. August 2009 07:43
It seems that there’s been a lot of tweeting about our
new Earthscan Earthcasts series. We’ve just had an email from Adam Vaughn of guardian.co.uk/environment
saying he’s tweeted it, as have GreenEcoVoice,
EcoEngineering, Enviralment and GreenEnergyNews to name a few.
It’s great to see particularly the green sector
getting behind us, and along with some familiar faces it’s been fascinating
coming across new organizations that we haven’t previously been in contact
with.
I suppose that’s the best thing about Twitter – that fact
that it’s so easy to come across new organizations and people who share your
interests, and spread the word about exciting new things at a lightning pace
across the globe, makes it, potentially, an enormously important tool for the
environmental movement.
I guess the big challenge is being able to mobilize in
a serious way, and of course choose something for everyone to get behind… I’ll
leave that one for another blog post I think.
In the mean time, here’s a really good resource
listing all the ‘Environmental
Twitter users’, and a fascinating (though not strictly
sustainability-related!) article on Twitter
being used as a tool for social change in China.
It certainly seems to be dominating the social
networking headlines at the moment, and who knows - maybe one day Twitter could
help save the world.
