Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

As I think has been well-established already on this blog, when it comes to social change, I am all about the progressive movement. A great website that exists to promote that type of progress is Change.org, which is made up of individuals and non-profits, all working together to have a positive impact on the world.

Change.org was founded by Ben Rattray in 2005 and has been live on the web since 2007. It deals first with broad "causes" - issues that range from education to genocide to social entrepreneurship - then breaks down into news, blogs, actions, non-profits, videos, jobs and more under an editor for each cause's microsite within the larger scope of Change.org.

For the third year in a row, Change.org is sponsoring Blog Action Day on October 15th, a day when thousands of bloggers from all over the world blog about the same topic to raise awareness. It uses the same concept Change.org is based on: that many people - ordinary citizens - discussing the same issue at the same time can effect change. Most non-profits depend on this same idea, which is why so many of them have embraced Change.org as a place to get their issues out there and let their supporters make their voices heard.

The topic chosen for 2009 is climate change and I'm one of the 1,899 blogs (and counting!) from 99 countries signed up to participate. I hope you'll check back on October 15th to read my take on the issue and share your thoughts. If you have a blog you'd like to register, you can do so at blogactionday.org