Lazy Philanthropist

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 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 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.

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

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?

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.

EcologyFund.com has many different buttons to click to save land, air. If you register even more stuff is saved.

 http://www.ecologyfund.com

 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 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/