All a-Twitter-ing About Climate Change
By Michael Frank, Adventure Journal on December 12th, 2011
CNN’s EcoSphere project gives twitter followers of the just-wrapped Durban, South Africa COP17 Conference on climate change a way to participate and follow the many conversations, but mostly, to visualize the varying strains of chatter. Yep, it’s neato, and if you use twitter, check it out just because it’d be awesome to see other conversations “visualized” this way. But while climate squabbles were/are over whether or not the U.S., India, and China will adhere to carbon reduction models, the twitter-reality is a little less flashy; it’s just folks, not governments, taking tiny actions…hanging out laundry to dry; turning laptops off at night. Nope, no headlines there, just a few million very quiet, boring tweets.
