Lazy Philanthropist

If you use this site to send your mom an e-card, $1 will be donated to help fight women’s heart disease.

http://www.toasttomom.com/send-etoast.html

Toast mom and save a heart or two.

In case I am not the last person on Earth to know about this:

On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone.

If this site is working correctly, you can find more info here:  http://www.earthhour.org/

Otherwise between 8p-9p today sit in the dark Do nothing , how lazy can you get to help the environment.

Barilla is offering a Celebrity Italian Table Cookbook (with some yummy menus) for free. For every copy that is downloaded they will donate a $1 to America’s Second Harvest. So click on the link below and download the book.  The 1 dollar will provide 16 meals to people. So do it now!

I have looked at the recipes (I am a foodie) and I can endorse that these are are above average recipes. And there are many I want to make.

http://www.celebrityitaliantable.com/Pages/Index.aspx?WT.ac=HPbanner_celebItalianTable

and sing.

We can’t always sit in our chairs and be lazy (as appealing as it may be). Sometimes getting up is good for circulation, provides needed bathroom breaks, and sometimes involves singing.  If you are in the San Diego area on 1st and 3rd Sundays there is Karaoke. How is this going to help the world you say? My singing scares small children you say? No need to fear! There will be no children present.  And if you sing  Freebird or I will Always love you (like you have always wanted) you have to donate money to the San Diego Music Foundation which sponsors music in public schools. Looky there. Your horrible singing did help children.

More info

http://myspace.com/toocoolforkaraoke

Blackle is the same search engine as Google, however it is on a black background rather than white. Having black project on your screen uses less energy than white. So the next time you search save some precious energy and search on blackle. Make it your homepage now :).

http://www.blackle.com/ 

You want to give a present but you also want to help out a charity here are some cool charitable gifts to give:

Red Cross Store has vintage t-shirts that are very current. It doesn’t look like you are schlocking a cause. They also have some stylish first aid and emergency kits. https://www.redcrossstore.org/shopper/ProdList.aspx?LocationId=5

RAINN always has nice stuff in their online store. Especially if you are a fan or know a fan of Tori Amos they have a calendar with some beautiful painted images of Tori. They also have tees, jewelry and music.
http://store.rainn.org/

Dog Lovers wine club is a wine of the month club (which can also be done bi-monthly or quarterly) that not only sends you wine with customized dog labels they also help rescue and animal shelters across the country.
http://www.dogloverswineclub.com/?affiliatecode=HSUS

There are probably loads more out there. It may be a little work (and I know we are all lazy) but take a little time to look for awesome gifts that give back. You can give a present to someone and give to charity at the same time.

and you want to prove it

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

A site that for every word you correctly define you give rice to people who need it.  Seriously you thought all of those stupid words you learned for the SATs were going to just rot your brain out.  Now you can give those words back to those who really need it.

If you order Flowers through FTD 15% of your purchase will go to the Children’s Miracle Network.  You need to choose a hospital from this page (http://www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org/ftd.php)  to give the monies to the kids.

and you will give books for kids to read. You can answer trivia questions at http://www2.firstbook.org/ericcarle . For every question you answer correctly, you get to choose a state. The 5 states with the most votes will each get 20,000 copies of the Eric Carle book The Tiny Seed. The books will be distributed through First Book. First book is a nonprofit organization that gives new books to low-income families.

Answer quickly, you have until June 16, 2007.

If you go to http://www.lays.com/#Home and redeem the bag of  lays chips you just ate, 25cents will be donated to the Make-A-Wish foundation.  They have to be a “specialty marked” bag of lays and you have until 9/1/07.