Details for the April Carnival & Looking For New Hosts!!

April's carnival will be hosted by me, Ruchi at Arduous Blog. The topic: Is Earth Day relevant?

As Earth Day approaches, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I feel like it's good to have one day a year where the focus is on the environment. Earth Day may build awareness in people, and it might give some people enough pause to significantly alter their lives. On the other hand, shouldn't every day be Earth Day? Many argue that Earth Day allows people to feel good about recycling their aluminum cans, driving their Toyota Prius, and bringing their own bags, when the truth is those actions barely scrape the surface in terms of what might be necessary to combat the forthcoming environmental crises. What do you think?

To participate, submit links to your posts to aplscarnival [at] gmail [dot] com by April 20. The carnival will be posted on Earth Day, April 22.

On another note, we are looking for hosts for the next few months. If you are interested in hosting, and you haven't hosted yet, let me know in the comments to this post. After that, we'll open it up to people who have already hosted, but we want to give everyone the opportunity to host if they so choose.

November APLS Carnival

The carnival on Buying Local is live at Green Phone Booth. Check it out.

Many thanks to Burbanmom for hosting in November!

Carnival Extended!

We know you all are probably still hung-over from election activities, so we've extended the deadline by two days for you to submit posts. You now have until the 12th of November to post on buying local! So, stop reading, and get writing!!

What's Crunchy and Delicious and Local All Over

Our next carnival!

Get your posts on Buying Local into aplscarnival(at)gmail(dot)com by the end of the day on Monday, November 10th. Then head over to the Green Phone Booth on Saturday, November 15th, to enjoy some local APLS.

And The Winner Is . . .

Affluent Persons Living Sustainably.

Yup! I kid you not. After all kinds of discussion, brilliant suggestions on new names and oodles of polls, we're back to where we started.

Here is the final breakdown on votes in case you've been unable to access the poll, which seems to have gone up in flames.

Affluent Persons Living Sustainably: 27%
All People Living Sustainably: 21%
Aware People Learning to Live Sustainably: 16%
Adaptable People Learning to Live Sustainably: 8%
Aspiring for Progress and Living Sustainably: 16%
Arden People Learning to Live Sustainably: 1%
Amidst Abundance, People Learning to Live Sustainably: 10%

We had a total of 86 votes, which is nearly double the number of votes in the last poll on this subject.

So, the people have spoken. Or at least clicked. We'll keep our original name and ask you to please stick with us. If you've had disagreements with the term Affluent, we hope that you'll still enjoy the community of aware, ardent, adaptable and aspiring people who all care about the same thing. Please continue to write (or at least read) posts on the topics we explore in our carnivals. Please continue to connect with others in your area via the regional groups. And, if you feel so inclined, you can use the new logo which Melinda from One Green Generation so thoughtfully created for us.

Thank you everyone for voting and commenting and discussing. We hope to see you at the next carnival on November 15, hosted at Eco Burban. Stay tuned for carnival topic details.

New APLS Carnival Up!

The October Carnival is up at Farmer's Daughter. Go check it out!!

APLS Stands For . . . You Decide

Please vote for what you think our APLS acronym should stand for. You can vote for as many options as you like. I, unfortunately, could not include all the ideas submitted because this darn poll limits me to 7 choices. Please feel free to comment, as well. Whomever's idea is ultimately chosen will get $50 donated to their charity of choice. Thank you!



Be sure to check out this month's carnival at Farmer's Daughter on Wednesday, October 15, to see what fellow apples think about educating others.

Poll closes on Saturday, Oct 18.

A is for . . .

You decide! Check out the new contest for a new APLS acronym over at Green Bean Dreams.

Welcome!

Welcome to the APLS Carnival! This is your home base for our once a month blog carnival, focusing on the issues of sustainability, green living and more.

Here's how it'll work. Whoever is hosting the blog carnival that month, gets to pick a topic of their choosing, so long as it relates to "APLS," that is, living sustainably in an affluent society. They'll announce the topic selection on or around the 15th of the prior month. (So if you're hosting for October, topic selection will be announced September 15th.) If you'd like to contribute to the carnival, you'll have about two weeks to put a post together on the chosen topic, and then you'll submit your topic to aplscarnival (at) gmail (dot) com.

The carnival will then be published on the host's site around the 1st of the month.

And that's it. Our goal is to keep this fairly simple, but fun.

FAQ

Here are the answers to your burning questions about the APLS Carnival!

What's a blog carnival?

A blog carnival is a regular event wherein a group of bloggers publish entries on a specific topic, and said entries are compiled on one person's blog. See Wikipedia for a more in depth definition.

How do I contribute to the carnival?

Write a post that pertains to the monthly topic, and then submit the permalink URL for your post to aplscarnival (at) gmail (dot) com.

What's the deadline?

It's up to the carnival host's discretion, but in order to be guaranteed a spot in the carnival, please submit your entry two days before the carnival is set to be published.

When are the carnivals published?

On or about the 1st of the month. Sometimes a little later depending. (We're guessing people will be too hung over January 1st to be interested in blog carnivals.)

Can I submit to the carnival if I'm not a "green-blogger?"

Sure! The more the merrier. We don't care if you're an eco-blogger, a mommy blogger, a money blogger, or a politics blogger. We don't even care if your blog has a topic. We can only benefit from the diversity of viewpoint offered by a wide range of blogs. Moreover, one of our goals with the APLS project is to create a social network for people interested in sustainable living. The more diverse a network, the stronger it is and the more likely it is to grow. As long as your post is related to the topic at hand, we are happy to include you.

Can I submit to the carnival if I don't have a blog?

I'm glad you asked! The answer is yes!! We want to include non-bloggers in the fun too. If you don't have a blog, then simply submit your full post to us, and we'll put your post up on the APLS site.

How do I host the carnival?

Email us at aplscarnival (at) gmail (dot) com if you're interested in hosting. We aren't going to start scheduling carnival hosts more than a few months in advance, so please don't be offended if we don't immediately put you on the schedule. We'll keep all the names on the list though, and then randomly select hosts every few months.

What are the duties of the carnival host?

Pretty simple. Basically, you have to host the carnival on your blog website. You come up with the topic, you'll receive the submissions via email, you'll compile them, and then and this is very important, write a little bit of commentary about the posts. We don't want this to just be a bunch of links to posts. It doesn't have to be a lot, but you should include a line or two of thoughtful commentary about each submission.

What's the code to put your little APLS doodad on my blog?

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I have a question you didn't cover.

Email us at aplscarnival (at) gmail (dot) com, and we'll be happy to answer your question!