Lighter Footstep: Blog Action Day: Bloggers Unite for the Environment
Editor’s note: This week, Lighter Footstep editor Chris Baskind shifts gears a bit to give attention to a big event next month: Blog Action Day. Of course, we’ll be participating, too (though it’s not much of stretch here!) This post was originally published on August 19, 2007.
On October 15th, many of your favorite blogs will go green.
We’re talking about sites which aren’t usually focused on environmental issues, including many of our faves here at Lighter Footstep: Lifehacker, Copyblogger, Web Worker Daily, ChrisG, Problogger, ZenHabits, and GigaOM.
It’s all part of Blog Action Day, an event organized by a trio of power bloggers which aims to unite thousands of sites for a day of articles and fundraining on behalf of the environment.
The idea behind Blog Action Day is simple: on October 15th, participating bloggers will post an article which deals in some way with green issues. A financial blog might address eco-friendly investing. An automotive site could choose to focus on hybrids or plug-in vehicles. It’s all about the Earth — and diversity of opinion.
As well-known blogger Brian Clark points out, the initiative is certainly a "call to action worthy of response." And while we don’t really think of Lighter Footstep as a blog in the strictest sense, we’ll be joining Blog Action Day here and at our sister publication, ecoTumble.
In addition to our online participation with Blog Action Day, Lighter Footstep will donate an amount equal to our one-day advertising revenues on October 15th to The Nature Conservancy, one of Blog action day’s designated environmental charities.
Don’t have a blog? Feeling left out?
In honor of Blog Action Day, we’re going to take the wraps off an initiative we’ve been kicking around for a while. We call it the Green Blog Incubator.
At Lighter Footstep, we think the more green voices, the better. So if you’ve ever thought about starting your own green blog, we’d like to help. And we’ll get you up and running before October 15th.
Details on how this is going to work are coming next week. In the meantime, pencil Blog Action Day onto your calendar.
See you there.
Tags: activism, blog day of action, Blogs, Community, Computers and Internet, environment, green, Green News, Web
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August 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
From 15-O to 8-N, Global Warming Action Day.
From 8th to 17th November, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will meet in Valencia, Spain, to adopt and approve the draft Synthesis Report of their Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and the 27th Sesion of IPCC
On occasion of this meeting, on 8th November, 8-N, I will insert an article in my blog about Global Warming in order to call the attention of governments, institutions and citizens in general about the need to take immediate and urgent actions to stop the global warming.