Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
Dear All,
I want to let you know of another of those free donation sites that I
learned about today. As with similar sites, when you click on a button
on the screen, corporate (or other) sponsors will make a donation to a
particular cause. Generally, you can do this once per day (for any given
site). In return, the sponsors benefit from the advertising on and good
will generated by the site.
The site is:
http://www.environmentsite.org/
Click on the leaf on the screen, and sponsors will make donations
to the Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), an organization that will use
the donations to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the most
significant contributor to climate change (I think ERT does this by
purchasing carbon dioxide emissions permits that allow their holders to
produce a certain amount of carbon dioxide emissions, thereby reducing the
number of emission permits on the market, though I am not certain).
To remind you of other free donation sites:
The Hunger Site http://www.thehungersite.com/
(donations to the
UN's World Food Program)
Relieve Hunger http://www.relievehunger.com/
(this site has
links to 5 free donation sites)
Free Donation http://www.freedonation.com/
(can contribute
to 8 causes; unique site to my knowledge in allowing very many donations
per day -- most of these sites only accept one donation per computer per
day)
Save the Rainforests http://rainforest.care2.com/
(helping to preserve
rainforests)
Cause an Affect http://www.causeanaffect.org/
(donations go to help
victims in of a horrendous cyclone late last year in the Indian state of
Orissa)
Pass on word about these sites. The more people who know about them
and visit them, the greater effect the sites will have -- the more food
distributed to the hungry, the more rainforest protected, the more money
to AIDS research, the more vaccines to children, etc. Also, if you are in
the position to be (or see whether your company will be) a sponsor of one
of these sites, please give this possibility some thought (all of the
sites have information on sponsoring). The sites cannot exist without
sponsors, and the more sponsors there are, the greater difference each
donation can make.
You might expect me to write a bit about climate change in this
e-mail about a way you can help counter the greenhouse effect -- it is an
enormously important issue facing us today -- but due to time constraints,
that is not possible right now. I will send out an e-mail on climate
change once time permits.
Thank you as always for your time and attention,
Yours,
Eric
"I have only dreams: to build a better world, a world of harmony
and understanding, a world in which it is a joy to live. This is not
asking for too much." -- Yitzhak Rabin
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