Gearing Up for Blog Action Day!

posted by: Sandra

Imagine a day when thousands of writers all around the world harness the power of the blogosphere to publish posts about a single critical issue. Imagine if that issue was the environment!

Monday, October 15th is Blog Action Day and MommyBlogsToronto will be participating. We really, really hope you will join us. You can register here and then it's a simple as writing a post on your blog on the 15th. And, as always, please let us know if you participated so we can do a round up of links here!

We'd love to see all the BlogHers Act Canada supporters focus their environmental post that day on our collective quest to ban toxics. Specifically, it is a great chance to blog to ban Bisphenol A. You can help raise awareness about the issue and, importantly, direct your readers to Toxic Nation's petition. Since we first posted about the issue the petition signatures have increased by almost 100 and, at the time of writing this, they are at 1851. We'd love to push them over the 5,000 mark ... and what better way to do it then all together on Blog Action Day!

What do you say? Are you in?

For inspiration, here are some fantastic posts and news around the blogopshere lately about BPA...

~ Our friend's at Toxic Nation write about a recent study from Taipei about Bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles.

~ Eco Child's Play writes an excellent piece all about Bisphenol A and especially about it's presence in canned food.

~ "The Soft Landing Blog" explores both sides of the BPA debate and has some awesome suggestions for making preventative changes.

~ The good folks at the awesome blog, Mom's Speak Up, wrote about the Toxic Nation Petition and other info around BPA.

~ And earlier this summer, the Inspired Protagonist wrote a post called "Bisphenol-Freakin' A". It contains my favourite statement about this issue:

Because, you know… It doesn’t have to be this way. We don’t have to kill ourselves to live well. We’re way more clever than that. It’s just easier for companies to maintain the status quo even when it kills their customers. So we have to make it harder for them not to change. And that effort starts with knowledge. Go get yours. Go get healthy. And then go get the people responsible for the ugly mess that’s being made

Here. Here.

So let's take our first step on Blog Action Day and shout as loudly as the blogosphere will let us (which is pretty damn loud). Let's blog the heck out of Bisphenol A, what it is, why we care, and what we can do about it.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead

Comments

[kittenpie]

Have posted. And signed last month. I can only hope this call inspires a bunch of people, and that we can get some attention. Sadly, I wonder if the class action suit launched in the US is going to be the thing that draws the most attention, because money talks. Still, if it works...