blog action day

Blog Action Day is a non-profit awareness raising event, that gives voice on different global issues every year by uniting bloggers, podcasters and videocasters. In this event, the blogging community around the world share their supportive opinions, points of view, ideas on a particular global issue and engage in global discussion.

The first annual Blog Action Day gathered worldwide participants to discuss the environment on October 15th 2007. At that event, 20,603 bloggers participated, and several members of Technorati’s top 100 blogsites were among that list. A wide spectrum of opinions and ideas were exchanged through 23,327 blog posts on environmental issues.

On October 15th, 2008 Blog Action Day united 12,800 bloggers, who collectively wrote 14,053 blog posts on the theme of poverty. At that event the united bloggers donated $3,159(USD) to Blog Action Day's official BAD08 charity as well as other non-profit organizations such as Feeding America, Donors Choose, World Hunger Relief, and many others.

As the yearly event draws nearer, you can expect to see increased conversation about it on the blogosphere.

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• Join The Fight for Green Energy, Post on Repower America’s Wall

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 550
  In the month of October, we all witnessed the very impressive Blog Action Day where bloggers from all over the country and the world addressed the issue of climate change through their writings. Repower America has taken it a step further. Their website now has a wall for everyone to go and post their pictures, ...
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• Conflict >> friction >> heat

  
  Reiki Help Blog — Authority: 98
  We are a planet in conflict. Conflict creates friction. Friction creates heat. Heat=Climate change. Here’s the latest in the state of affairs. After my last post which was somewhat hopeful about climate change, the news has been less so, with a lot of equivocating. Not all is lost, yet, but certainly the ...
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• Some thoughts on Change

  
  Couch trip — Authority: 110
  Derrick Jensen, activist and author: “…Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions ...
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• BeMoreEco Summary of International Day of Climate Action

  
  BeMoreEco — Authority: 113
  As News & Views has posted previously, last Saturday marked the first International Day of Climate Action. In celebration of this, the team have scored the web for the best pictures, events and features of the day. . Best Videos In the News In Every Corner of the Globe Best Pictures ...
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• Clayoquot Summer 1993 – Assembling the People’s History of the Protest

  
  Ephemeral Feasthouse — Authority: 103
  Clayoquot Summer People’s History Dossier Rainforest Dispatches podcast series With a litany of environmental-related events in Blog Action Day , Tck Tck Tck , 350 , Bridge to A Cool Planet – i’ve rustled up an overview of my recent climate change, activist-oriented media project. Listeners to “ ...
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• Blog Action 350: Global Warming Swindle Is it True?

  
  Newz Around Us — Authority: 427
  Some says it is a fake and there is a so called "Global Warming Swindle" that is ongoing. For me the biggest swindle is this documentary. The evidence is felt and it is happening. Whether it is caused by us or whether it is caused by increasing activity in the sun there is Climate Change and we should act on it ...
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• 350 & You: Day of Action

  
  Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot — Authority: 424
  Blog Action Day has come and gone, but the real challenge of raising awareness about climate change and global warning has just begun. This blog will join thousands of other blogs for a Day of Action on October 24, 2009, to spread the word about 350 . But what is the significance of the number 350? ...
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• What Im Reading

  
  Thanks For Playing — Authority: 421
  Baseball, motherhood, apple pie, and technology: Why Netbooks are better than Smart Phones . This article nicely captures why I chose the Macbook Air, at an admittedly considerably higher cost than either a Netbook or a Smart Phone. (Shout out to Maggie McGary for the link) All the amazing posts from last weeks ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blog Action Day, by the numbers (plus a great music video)

  
  higher ed marketing — Authority: 106
  Not to turn this into yet another tree-hugger blog, but I thought I’d share a recap of Blog Action Day 2009, which was last Thursday, Oct. 15, and the topic of which was climate change.Number of bloggers participating (according to the Blog Action Day 2009 blog): Around 32,000.Number of nations represented: ...
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• Global Day of Action (Oct. 24)

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 418
  Last week I dropped in, along with bloggers in 155 countries across six continents, for Blog Action Day ‘09: Climate Change .  CNN covered the story and the organizers report that 13,484 blogs reached 18,076,782 readers. A big part of the reason for this effort was to further enlighten folks around the world ...
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• My Interview Published In Asia Media Forum

  
  The 3rd world view — Authority: 421
  Lynette Lee Corporal at Asia Media Forum has published an article on Blog Action Day and quoted me from an interview which I submitted via email earlier. Here is the article: Battle for Climate Change Waged in Cyberpace Too Like veritable Davids to the status quos Goliaths, who contribute one way or another ...
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• Missed Blog Action Day 09

  
  On The Road with Dave — Authority: 415
  On October 15, Bloggers from around the world participated in Blog Action Day 2009 in a unified effort to write and inform about Global Climate change. I participated in the event last year when the subject was Poverty. This year due to job schedule constraints I was unable to put together an intelligent or thought ...
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• World Blog Action Day ‘09 – Hopenhagen

  
  One Size Fits One — Authority: 120
  I should have posted this to spread awareness about climate change on World Blog Action Day , 15th October, but better late than never. I think Hopenhagen , a petition to the world’s leaders to act on climate change in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in December, is an important initiative in this ...
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• Blog Action Day 2009: One of the Largest Climate Change Events Ever Held on the Web

  
  The GREEN MARKET — Authority: 119
  This years Blog Action Day underscores the power of social media to combat climate change. Bloggers from all parts of the globe came together to help raise awareness about the importance of combating climate change. On October 15th 13,000 bloggers from 155 countries on six continents wrote about climate change. The ...
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• I Missed Blog Action Day :(

  
  Typing Free(ly) | One woman's chronicles on parenting, family, career, technology and everything in between. — Authority: 98
  I’ve been too busy with so many things that I missed writing for my advocacies Sad, sad, sad…..
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• Recap: Week Of October 12 (plus a frightening MouthOff update)

  
  KRAPPS | a different and funny iPhone app review site — Authority: 515
  In case you missed any of the festivities, quick links to this week’s articles. October 12: “We’re Not On Drugs” – Developer Challenges Our Claims October 12: Aggressive Butt Flossing – Most Painful Screenshot Ever October 13: O Canada, Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter! Government Censors Cornhole ...
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• Blog Action Day – Burn it Down and Salt the Earth

  
  samadhisoft.com — Authority: 110
  - Today is Blog Action Day.  It’s a good reason to post something about the mess we’re making of the world so here’s my offering – which I, in turn, pulled from Kevin Drum and Mother Jones. - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - The Wall Street Journal reports that the good ...
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• The Elephant Graveyard

  
  A Writer's Life — Authority: 395
  Image: Elephant Skeleton ~ Mike Richardson When I close my eyes I dream of deepest Africa The Motherland Our ancestral home Where the orange sun rises Over the plantation lands And the hot winds blow Across the Serengeti plains Deep in the wilderness Vultures hover over an elephant graveyard Swooping to ...
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• Blog Action Day “one of largest social action events ever held on the web”

  
  Principled Profit — Authority: 118
  Organizers of Blog Action Day are pleased indeed , calling it “one of largest social action events ever held on the web.” 32,000 posts, including three world leaders: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who got the very first UK post in just as the clock turned midnight–and staffers from President Obama and the ...
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• Typoon Pepeng Experience 4 (The Story of Survival 2)

  
  The Leaves of Tarkong — Authority: 116
  Apologies if I was not able to deliver the rest of the story about Typhoon Pepeng tragedy as promised. I was seriously pursuing my story on this the past two days, had to interview several authorities, and gather more information. Im very excited and inspired of this story. I just hope I can deliver the writing ...
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