Blog Action Day I first heard about Blog Action Day through Spud over at Nice4Rice and, after a quick read through the site, it sounds like a great project.

The idea is to get thousands of bloggers discussing a single topic on a specific date in an effort to raise awareness of a cause.  This year the cause is the environment, and the date is October 15th, 2007.

“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.  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.”

- Collis Ta’eed, an Australian blogger from FreelanceSwitch.com, and cofounder of Blog Action Day

As an alternative to blogging about the environment, bloggers can opt to participate by donating their blog’s proceeds from October 15th to several environmental charities.  Greenpeace International, The Nature Conservatory, the National Wildlife Federation, the Conservation Fund, and The Sierra Club are all associated with this event.

Seeing as how this site’s average daily income is around 8 cents, I’ll be donating all revenue aquired between October 1st and the 15th to the National Wildlife Federation.  To keep things a little fair, I’ve also imposed on myself a minimum donation of $20.

Now to start writing that great environmental post….