Brady and I have gotten our very first blogging nod (yippee)! It’s more than that great warm fuzzy feeling but it’s also so encouraging to have a community of people working towards change. I sometimes fall to bouts of hopelessness, which is not hard considering some of the dire predictions out there but nothing alleviates this pessimism like the positive power of others. Created by the guys over at Climate of our Future who believe in blogging with a purpose, they are out to recognize and spread the network of people seeking to change the world for the better. The Accidental Environmentalist was kind enough give us the nod, and now I get to brag about 5 other supercool blogs I love. If you have been nominated by me, you can read the rules at the end of this post and choose to participate.

No Impact Man I love this blog because it makes me evaluate my daily impact, something that had previously been smothered beneath years of consumer breeding. While I don’t have the gonads to go to his level yet, I’m making my own steps and am in awe of this green superhero and will be the first to purchase his organic, fair trade package-less locally made action-hero 2nd hand when it’s available!

“A Guilty Liberal Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nut, Turns Off His Power, Composts His Poop and, While Living in New York City, Generally Turns Into a Tree-Hugging Lunatic Who Tries to Save the Polar Bears and The Rest of the Planet from Environmental Catastrophe While Draggin His Baby Daughter and Prada-Wearing, Four Seasons Living Wife Along for the Ride”

Reproductive Health Reality Check Full disclosure, this is a site Brady works for. This blog perhaps isn’t as intuitive as other green sites, but contains important information that effects the environment in the largest way, through population. With World Population Day just this past week, attention was brought to the exceptional rate we are growing. With many environmental symptoms stemming from diminishing resources, it is time we took a hard look at controlling our growth and one of the first places to begin is with sexual education and access to contraceptives and an end to the Global Gag Rule.

The Alternative Consumer As a retailer I love the inspiration from this site, as a consumer I just love it.

The Alternative Consumer provides product reviews, eco news and green info to the next wave of smart consumers… fresh thinkers who consciously style their lives with their health and the health of the Earth in the forefront of their mind … chic, savvy shoppers who integrate “green” into their everyday buying decisions.

The Worsted Witch Anyone who loves green and gothic horror has to be cool. Her writing is wonderful and prolific, with some great posts over at Treehugger.

The Worsted Witch is the malformed love-child of my indecorous passions for knitting, sustainability, gothic horror, and illustration

Green LA Girl Green LA Girl was the very first blog I added to my reader, and has been my companion (though she probably doesn’t know it) through the sometimes murky waters of green fair trade-ishness Brady and I continue to traverse.

Ok… the rest is for the winners of this award. Congratulations!

It’s easy to participate in this meme. At minimum, you can proudly display the BPGC badge (it’s available in two varieties: Transparent GIF and JPEG with white background) on your blog and bask in the glow of our collective good will. If you are sharing the kudos, however, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging.

The participation rules are simple:

1. When you get tagged, write a post with links to up to 5 blogs that you think are trying to change the world in a positive way.
2. In your post, make sure you link back to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Leave a comment or message for the bloggers you’re tagging, so they know they’re now part of the meme.
4. Optional: Proudly display the “Bloggers For Positive Global Change” award badge with a link to the post that you write up.