Have YOU heard about Blog Action Day, which is Monday, October 15, 2007?

The idea is to inspire thousands of bloggers to publish a post on that day about an issue of their choice pertaining to the environment.

To quote the blog behind the big idea:

“The best way to participate is to post on your blog something that relates to the environment. Your post can be about anything to do with the environment. So you could write a post which is offtopic for your blog OR relate the environment back to your topic in some way.

For example, if you had a blog about programming and technology, you could write about applications used for the environment, how to make your office more sustainable, how to stop wasting paper, why technology will save the environment, or just write about an environmental issue which has nothing to do with programming!

As another example, if you wrote about restaurants, you could write about kitchen practices that make for a more environmentally friendly workplace, food packaging, produce made from sustainable farming or any of a multitude of topics.”

I found out about it this morning when, as I was poised to delete a trackback comment that Askimet had marked as spam (the comment itself wasn’t actually about Blog Action Day), something made me pause a moment and investigate the commenter’s blog first.

In fact the commenter, Toby Boyce, has a cool real estate blog about the market in Delaware, Ohio, and in which he shares far more than just his property listings. Within his September archives I found the reference to Blog Action Day.

So, thank you Toby!