Why women are more impacted

UPDATE: It influences our lives every day. From what we eat, to what we wear, to how we get to work, to, well, you get the picture: What doesn't it affect?

And this year's Blog Action Day aims to expand the global conversation about Climate Change.

Organizers say they've signed up more than 5,000 boggers from 126 countries to post on the topic on Oct. 15 (yep, today).

I'm one of them. Leigh tells me that pnn.com is also signed up as a community.

And it's not too late to join in. (If you register individually, your posts will be streamed for the whole world to see -- plus, you can see what bloggers worldwide are sayig about the subject):

http://www.blogactionday.org/en/blogs/new

Last year's Blog Action topic was Poverty, and a lot of us here on pnn posted about that.

I know it caused me to reflect and respond, and I know it did the same for a lot of you. And reading your posts was definitely inspiring.

Plus, I remember the satisfaction of feeling a sense of purpose in participating in a worldwide effort focusing on such a critical issue.

Our personal observations and opinions do make a difference. They raise awareness, they change habits -- they get leaders to pay attention.

Can we do it again this year? C'mon -- yes, we can!

I'm vowing to do small things today -- using my recycled shopping bag, wearing only sustainably prpoduced clothes (and some I've gotten from consignment -- as well as taking some clothes to consignment) and even (yes, shocking for me) cooking from scratch.

It's also worth learning about and contemplating how women around the world are being more severely impacted by the results of climate change than men.

Whether you believe it's a big deal or not, that fact is women have the burden of raising most of the crops in the developing world, traveling far every day on foot to get clean drinking water from wells that are increasingly scarce. Plus, their/our futures are more closely linked with what happens with climate change.

This post connects some of the additional dots, and was an eye-opener for me.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2007/03/climate-change-will-affect-women-more-severely-men

What are your thoughts? A vibrant discussion is the point. and I know I can count on you for that -- right?