Each year on October 15th, bloggers all over the world join together to discuss one agreed upon and important topic facing the world. In 2007 we blogged about the environment. In 2008 we discussed poverty. This year, Blog Action Day is asking bloggers to tackle climate change.

Blog Action Day is the brainchild of Collis Ta’eed, and the first year he managed to recruit 20,000 bloggers to all write on the same topic on the same day. It was an amazing event. This year it should be even bigger and better, and it’s always fun to see what various bloggers have …read more

Fair Trade empowers people around the world. It helps the very poor, but it is not charity.
When you purchase a Fair Trade product, you’re making the choice to help prevent or amend poverty in many places of the world. Not only that, but Fair Trade promotes environmental sustainability and safe, healthy workplaces.

Choosing Fair Trade sends a very clear message that you care about the working conditions of those who grew or manufactured your product. You’re saying you want to stamp out the poverty of those who’ve been putting up with meager pay and deplorable working conditions for far too long.
Please …read more

Well, I’m running late but have made it before Blog Action Day is over with the second installment of extreme green living ideas. For some of you the 15th is over — not me though. I’m a west coast girl! I’ve got an hour left.
I would have been back sooner but I had a lot of blogs playing green today and it’s been busy. That said, we should get going.
In the previous post I listed 4 extreme green living ideas. Here are some more. These tips are all centered around the same thing; waste.
5. Wear (and use) only organic natural …read more

So, I decided that in honor of Blog Action Day the only place a normal green living blog could go is up. That means to the next shade of green — extreme.
I’m not so extreme here at Tree Hugging Family.
That’s because I’m afraid too many families and individuals underestimate how important just one small earth-saving contribution can be. I do believe that all the many small steps we do will add up to a whole lot of green-minded living. In addition I know families are busy and that going green can be hard to plain overwhelming. Here at Tree Hugging …read more

If you haven’t guessed yet; it’s Blog Action Day. At last count (I’m not updating all day so…) but at the last count there were 15,568 blogs signed up to participate with a total rss reach of 12,507,731. Not bad. That’s a whole lot of bloggers blogging about the environment. Many bloggers participating are part of the b5media network.
Following are the b5media blogs that are participating in this fine event today. There could be more too — yup, I miss stuff.

Hippie Sounds
Offbeat Homes
Simply Thrifty
Declutter It!
The Golden Pencil
Yielding Wealth
Daytime Talk
Oz Music Scene
The Sydney Traveler
The Rock Dose
Our Digital Music
Copyblogger
Problogger
Quilting and Patchwork
Alzheimer’s Notes
She …read more

I posted this before but I think it’s time for a little reminder. October 15th is coming up fast.
Are you signed up yet?

There are currently 5,349 blogs signed up. Five of those blogs are mine… Since this year’s theme is the environment I think the numbers could be higher. So if you have not signed up to participate yet you can go do it now. Think of it as a traffic perk; you’ll be listed at the Blog Action Day website and it’s for a great cause.
Right now there are enough bloggers signed up to reach 3,680,951 blog …read more