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Here’s a great idea I found out about from the team over at EcoGeek. Leveraging blogging’s wide appeal, coverage and influence the call has gone out for bloggers to unite under the Blog Action Day banner to highlight problems with our planet.
Scheduled for October 15th, Blog Action Day has so far signed up close to 6000 blogs and websites who want to talk up environmental issues. With a different theme each year, the organisers have selected the environment as the 2007 theme both for the clarity of its importance and the undeniable urgency that issues like global warming and pollution have. So, on October 15th they want every blog out there to post on something to do with the environment; an ambitious and admirable aim.
"For just one day, we'd like to unite as many of the millions of bloggers around the world and speak about one issue -- the environment," said Collis Ta'eed, an Australian blogger from FreelanceSwitch.com, and a cofounder of Blog Action Day. "We want to display the potential and the power of the blogging community, which is a disparate community but one with an amazing size, breadth and diversity. By bringing everyone together for one day, we can see just how much can be achieved, and how much we can be heard."
Blog Action Day suggests for those who do not want to participate to instead donate their blog proceeds for that day to one of several environmental organizations chosen for this purpose: Greenpeace International, The Nature Conservancy, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), the Conservation Fund, and the Sierra Club.
The Green lounge has joined up. If you’ve got a blog, get on board – it’s only one post.
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