Tag: Charities - Page 6
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Top Stories from Tonic: Reynolds Scholars, Kaczmerak Smile Train, Oliver: TED Star and more!
If you know students who have their eyes on reinventing how we care for our world and the people in it, send 'em this link and start crossing your fingers. "NYU Advances Study in Social Entrepreneurship," discusses how undergrads and graduates can
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Save a Life and Get Free Basketball Tickets From Nothing but Nets
The new anti-malaria campaign, Nothing but Nets, is out just in time for the holiday season and really is the gift that keeps on giving. For a very small donation, you can save a life, or two, gift a gift to a friend, and get two free tickets to a
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Top Stories from Tonic: Grenier and Milano Praise charity: water, Pandas Get Pushed to Knock Boots, Oprah Whoops It Up
Mark Dagastino has the inside scoop on this year's epic charity: ball event benefiting the awesome nonprofit charity: water. "Adrien Grenier Hosts Annual charity: ball Fundraiser."
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Wend Magazine's Digital Version Is Cut Free
We're big fans of Wend Magazine. It's immerses its readers in the wild outdoor environments, in diverse cultural environments, and in the broader environmental challenges facing the planet. Wend is a travel
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Top Stories from Tonic: Potty Protection, Gorilla Homecoming, 26 Great Ideas and More!
Why stop at top ten lists when you can track down the top "26 Ideas to Save People from Climate Change"?
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Would You Run a Marathon Barefoot For Charity?
This year it seems people of all ages are pushing themselves to the limit to raise money for charity, raise consciousness on issues like climate change and the environment, and possibly raise the bar on wild and outlandish stunts. Just this year Edward
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World's First Green Search Engine Launches Tree-Planting Email Service
Image via Treehoo Treehoo already made it onto one of our lists of top green search engines last year, but this latest move might bump it farther up to the top. The tree-minded search engine has added an email service with the plan to put half of the
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What Ya Gonna Gimme For It? New Survey Shows Mobile Phone Recycling Centers Around Rewards
It takes getting something in return - and more than the warm fuzzy feeling you're saving the planet - to get people to recycle mobile phones. A new study by ABI Research shows some really sad statistics, including that
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RockResorts Now Recycles Barely-Used Hotel Soap and Shampoo
Finally, someone has found a way to close the loop on all of that barely-used soap and shampoo that goes to waste after hotel patrons depart one hotel for new hotels and new showers full of sample-sized soaps and
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Top Stories from Tonic: COP15 Primer, Charity Gift Guide, Heigl's Puppy Love and More!
Dave Bois breaks down the CO15 basics in "Copenhagen for Dummies: A Climate Conference Primer."
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Kona AfricaBikes Now Help Kids Get to School in Gambia
We reported last year on the Kona AfricaBike program where Kona donated a bike to HIV/AIDS workers in Africa for every two bikes purchased. The bikes then go to help HIV/AIDS workers deliver medicine and
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Could Ecosia Be the World's Greenest Search Engine? (Video)
There are gads of green search engines - Green Maven, EcoSearch, Good Tree, Truevert, Ecocho... - and they all have their special qualities that make them eco-friendly. Some focus on bringing up green content in your search, some
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9 Wild Eco Volunteer Opportunities to Save the World
Photo by Mara 1 via Flickr "It's not a job. It's an adventure." That old Navy recruitment slogan can be readily applied to voluntourism, perhaps the most environmental way to fly off to remote lands. Opportunities abound, from replanting secluded
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Horny Toad and Goodwill Share the Warmth
In the Christmas carol 'Good King Wenceslas,' the king looks out and see snow all about. He also notices a poor man gathering winter fuel, though the frost be cruel. He sets out into the night to save the man from his
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Chocolatier Cadbury Delivers 5,000 Bicycles to Ghana, Africa
Cadbury dropped us a line to let us know they're in the midst of delivering 5,000 bicycles to Ghana, Africa. As the video advert above shows the bikes will likely see use as delivery vans, ambulances, water trucks and school buses, as they are used by
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See How Patagonia Spent $3.8 Million This Year
Patagucci is the mocking term sometimes used to label the outdoor clothing company, Patagonia, in reference to what some people view as high priced goods. We don't know what Gucci do with their money, but
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Our Future is TBD
Do you like it easy, concise and world-changing? Are you eager to get involved in improving our future and ready to embrace new world-shaking idea with one simple click? Then just sign up to TBD, the latest project by All Day Buffet, which launched at
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Harvesting Fog Provides Drinking Water, Food to Peruvian Slums
In Lima, Peru, more than 1.3 million people have no access to drinking water. The citizens without it are in the poorest areas, where water trucked in can cost nine times as much as it does in richer areas. So, citizens have had to either make do without
