For a first time event, ‘Blog Action Day’ seemed to go off quite well. What is ‘Blog Action Day’, you ask? Well, it’s basically about trying to organize bloggers around the theme of environmental awareness and protection. It’s all green all the time. The purpose of the Zeitgeistland blog is to focus on all things in nature that humanity should treasure and protect. I suppose you could then call Zeitgeistland a grog, for green blog, but I’m not sure that would be very dignified, heh, erm, cough. We are a product of this world, after all, and so we should see the urgency in preserving that which nurtured us throughout the millennia. We have managed to become a collective force on this planet, through both our intellect and our numbers, and we now have to respect our capacity for destructive behavior, because, as mighty as we have become, nature is still that which rules the planet.

So, in these still fairly early days of the internet, (twenty years isn’t much…cars and planes are far older) why not harness some of our intellect and use the internet for what might be one of its most powerful potential uses, and that is organizing people and information, and ultimately, getting them to act in concert? Of course, it is already being used for political organization with respect to elections, but, it would be great to have an organization that maintains a constant focus on all things green, a group that can exchange information with the speed that the internet provides, and use that speed to organize people on the ground efficiently. This translates into not only getting people into the streets for protests, but also motivating them to send emails and make phone calls to their representatives when it comes to important environmental legislation coming up for a vote in their state, or in Washington. It would also act to maintain an organized archive of information, through a network of green blogs, where people can go to learn how to lead lives more in harmony with the green movement and their conscience.

The link below is a first attempt at this sort of thing.  It details some statistics regarding the success of this event.  Check it out.

• Blog Action Day