{"id":572,"date":"2008-04-22T05:28:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T05:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/earth-day-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T16:55:39","slug":"earth-day-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/earth-day-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year on this day, there was no Earth Day post. Instead, I was busy migrating my site to this domain, msadventuresinitaly.com.<\/p>\n<p>Some posts and sites I noticed yesterday for Earth Day! <strong>Scroll down to see who won the comment giveaway!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/intelligenttravel.typepad.com\/it\/2008\/04\/its-earth-day-e.html\">Intelligent Travel&#8217;s Earth Day Every Day<\/a> post<\/li>\n<li>National Geographic has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreenguide.com\/blog\/index.mhtml\">Green Guide magazine and blog<\/a> and I recently wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/thetravelersnotebook.com\/destination-guides\/green-guide-to-milan\/\">Green Guide to Milan for The Traveler&#8217;s Notebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Guardian talks about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2008\/mar\/28\/green.uk\">The Slow Way to Go<\/a>&#8221; and the &#8220;Citta Slow&#8221; movement gaining speed in the UK<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll remind you that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/eataly-turins-enogastronomic-marketplace-and-blog-action-day\/\">Blog Action Day was about the Environment and I posted about Eataly and some other ways to go greener<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the comments, Dr. Shock reminded me about a video I&#8217;d seen &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/\">The Story of Stuff<\/a> which is 20 minutes well-spent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Earth Day Mini Giveaway<\/h3>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve given away something free to readers<\/strong>, and luckily for you, that starts to bother me. A bit like an itch I need to scratch. I&#8217;ve got two other giveaways in the pipeline but they&#8217;re not quite ready yet.<\/p>\n<p>So today, I&#8217;m going to make it easy for you:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s something you&#8217;re doing for Earth Day this year?<\/strong> One tip you&#8217;re doing or would like to try for Earth day : recycling, lowering your carbon footprint, energy saving, fighting global warming, cleaning up the environment, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or give us a website or blog to check out with this info!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick a comment at random and I&#8217;ll send you a choice of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ebooks<\/strong>: Give you a one-on-one tutorial about ebooks and buy you your first ebook! (up to USD$15 in value)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Re-usable Shopper Bag:<\/strong> I have an exclusive cute cotton shopper bag with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/girl-geek-dinners-italia-italy\/\">Girl Geek Dinners Italia color logo<\/a> (tell me that&#8217;s not cute!) and you won&#8217;t find it anywhere!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The contest is closed.<\/strong> Congratulations to our winner &#8211; <strong>Comment #8, Novelist! A Cute Shopper bag!<\/strong> Send me your address via email!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/randomwinner.jpg?ssl=1\" alt='randomwinner.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year on this day, there was no Earth Day post. Instead, I was busy migrating my site to this domain, msadventuresinitaly.com. Some posts and sites I noticed yesterday for Earth Day! Scroll down to see who won the comment giveaway! Intelligent Travel&#8217;s Earth Day Every Day post National Geographic has a Green Guide magazine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/earth-day-2008\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,21,101],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog-event","7":"category-random","8":"category-tips","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-9e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":688,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/pistachio-and-chocolate-crinkles-cookie-recipe-from-field-guide-to-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":572,"position":0},"title":"Pistachio and Chocolate Crinkles Cookie Recipe from Field Guide to Cookies","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"November 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm so pleased to be able to feature a recipe from Anita Chu a.k.a. 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