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52teas brings you a new small batch custom blended tea every week. Customers help us decide what to blend. Purchase teas individually, or sign up for one of our Tea of the Week plans. Free shipping to the US & Canada.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/about
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
Share your music, download your favorite artists!
See how many cups of water you can donate by testing your knowledge about the world. Each correct answer means we will be donating 10 cups on your behalf. Good luck!
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
In our three year existence we have produced an extraordinary average of 8-hours-a-day of audiobooks, all read by volunteers, all made available for free. Our catalog is currently at 1,826 works, in 26 different languages.
http://actioncenter.org/from_the_field/68
The hunger epidemic is real. Rising costs of fuel and food, persistent conflicts, disease and global warming mean that the crisis will get worse before it gets better. That's why Mercy Corps is opening a new Action Center to End World Hunger — to get citizens like you motivated, equipped and mobilized to end hunger.
http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
Watch Neil Gaiman read The Graveyard Book on a 9-city video tour. At each stop on the tour, Neil will read one chapter from The Graveyard Book.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_who...
Normally we post a "Whoppers" compilation the week before Election Day. This time we've already seen such a large number of twisted facts, misleading claims and outright falsehoods that we are doing that now.
https://donate.oxfamamerica.org/02/match_2008_a...
Give by Sept 30 and your gift will count twice! A generous group of leadership donors has established a Matching Gift Fund that will double every donation Oxfam receives - up to $1.5 million! Donate by Sept 30 and your donation will go twice as far in the fight to end poverty and injustice.
http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/
More than 100,000 responses from women of all ages and backgrounds. "We hope you'll take solace in the words of your neighbors near and far, and that you'll become inspired to take further action so as to ensure that McCain/Palin are not elected."
There's a lot of misunderstanding in the world. There's a lot in quotes that leads us to learn and feel better. We believe that the words of others can change your life.
"Going green" doesn't have to be a daunting task that means sweeping life changes. Simple things can make a difference.
http://www.locksoflove.org/mission.html
Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics.
If your hair can be pulled into a ponytail or braid that measures 10 inches tip to tip you may be able to donate. Visit the site for more details.
http://www.one.org/worldhungercrisis/
Food prices have risen 45% in the last nine months and the world is facing serious shortages of rice, wheat and corn. Since 2005, the prices of staple foods have risen by 80%. Rising food prices are dealing a crushing blow to the world's poorest people, who spend around half of their income on food. The current situation threatens to exacerbate the twin crises of hunger and malnutrition; already, under-nutrition contributes to almost half of all child deaths and more than 20% of maternal deaths.
http://www.bureauofcommunication.com/
'Let That Which is Unsaid Be Said' This site is a blast. A collection of fill-in-the-blanks-and-send stationery to communicate a problem, extend an invitation, apologize for a transgression, etc.
http://healthytoys.org/home.php
Parents and other holiday shoppers can now easily search by product name, brand, or toy type to learn how the products rate in terms of harmful chemical content.
http://mercycorps.org/mercykits
Change the way you see gift giving. Mercy Kits are a convenient way for you to give a gift while helping people in need. And it's easy to send your personalized gift announcement: by mail, by e-mail or by printing your own card.
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/
Choose a meaningful gift to give a loved one and help children and families around the world receive training and animal gifts that help them become self-reliant.
http://www.oxfamamericaunwrapped.com/howitworks/
Oxfam America works in 26 countries around the world. The Oxfam Unwrapped catalog contains gift items that symbolically represent our work. Your donation will be used where it is needed the most--to help people living in poverty throughout the world.
https://www.catalogchoice.org/#about
Catalog Choice is a free service that lets you decline paper catalogs you no longer wish to receive. Reduce the amount of unsolicited mail in your mailbox, while helping to preserve the environment.
Play a vocabulary game at FreeRice.com. Ten grains of rice are donated through the United Nations World Food Program for every correct answer. This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on the site. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The World Food Program is the world’s largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good. Wherever possible, the World Food Program buys food locally to support local farmers and the local economy.
