Vote
i don’t care who you vote for but vote please. The best way to help people is to make educated choices in your representatives and laws. And for the extremely lazy, you can vote absentee.
Two sites to help you register/educate yourself:
Free Cookbook
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
You know you are smart
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.
Eat Potato Chips?
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.
“I’m Making a Difference”
Is Microsoft’s new campaign to get you to use their IM service. You download Windows Live Messenger, you choose a charity listed, and they will donate unspecified amount of money to that charity. The will not put a cap on the funds raised and each charity’s Microsoft Messenger page has a theme pack you can additionally download. The organizations Microsoft is helping are: American Red Cross, Boys and Girls Club, Humane Society, National Aids Fund, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NineMillon.org, Sierra Club, Stop Global Warming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Unicef.
For more information- http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=IMDB_SponsoredPage
Donate your Airline Miles
You can donate your airline miles to the Fisher House. They help military service people and their families. If you donate during the Memorial Weekend, CNN will match the airline miles. For more information go here,
http://www.fisherhouse.org/programs/heroMilesDonate.shtml
If you aren’t gonna use them, why not donate them?
Download Songs and Help People in Darfur
By downloading Working Class Hero by Green Day through iTunes, you will help people in Darfur Sudan.
Amnesty International is releasing an album of John Lennon covers to raise money for the Sudanese. More Information can be found at http://www.instantkarma.org/index.html
The Green Day song has been released early and is now available through iTunes. If you don’t have iTunes, the full album ( titled Instant Karma) will be released on June 12.
Save the Planet
EcologyFund.com has many different buttons to click to save land, air. If you register even more stuff is saved.
Hug your mac for green
A green world that is. Greenpeace has a campaign where you write to Steve Jobs and take a picture of you hugging your mac to encourage Apple to “go green”. Consider this the new way to be a tree hugger.
More Info: http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/mact.html
Folding @ Home
Folding @ Home is a small program you install on your computer. It works in the background and helps Stanford University fold proteins. I don’t know much about science but this program is helping these awesome people to cure Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Huntington’s Disease, and others. For more info and to install the program go to http://folding.stanford.edu/
