Lazy Philanthropist

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.

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/ 

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

From the Al Gore documentary: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/

A list of small things you can do to reduce the effects of “climate change”. Whether you believe in this stuff or not, most will probably reduce your electric bill. So help the world and yourself too!

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