GlobaLinks NewsWire To Join Climate Change Conversation During Oct. 15 Blogging Event

If you’ve spent much time reading the GlobaLinks NewsWire, then you’ve seen “going green” among our most featured topics.

Blog Action Day - 2009: Climate Change.

What do green efforts have to do with international education?

In the most simplistic of terms, it’s that the air, sun, sky, wind, trees, grass, earth and oceans unite us – no matter what country or culture we call our own. It only makes sense that within international education’s broader efforts to develop global citizens, it also works to put out into the world environmentally aware individuals who understand their impacts on these shared resources and take measures to go lightly while traveling, living and learning abroad.

Thanks to David Comp’s  International Higher Education Consulting Blog, we recently learned of the Oct. 15′s Blog Action Day, an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting on the same issue on the same day.

For the 2009 Blog Action Day, the topic is climate change. With this topic, we see an opportunity to add to the conversation, in our case by posting an article on the Colorado Carbon Fund, which provides high quality carbon offsets to consumers as a way to support new energy efficiency and renewable energy projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Colorado (where the GlobaLinks NewsWire is based.)

If all goes as planned, we’ll post an article on Thursday – Blog Action Day – featuring the Colorado Carbon Fund and its efforts to reverse the impacts of CO2 emissions through a variety of innovative efforts.

We hope you’ll check it out.

- Stacey Hartmann

GlobaLinks NewsWire Editor