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Click To Donate
Convert one
of your mouse clicks into a charity donation at no
cost to you. Each one of the links below will have a
charity donation button on it, which will trigger a
donation to a charity. Monies raised are paid for by
sponsors or adverts. |
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Click For Charity
 Click
on a ‘Donate’ button within one of these ‘click to donate’ sites
and at no cost to you, money will be donated to a nominated
environmental charity. Donations are paid for by sponsors or
advertising. The link takes you to a site that provides a huge
list of click-to-donate environmentally based websites.
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Time Taken:
About 5
seconds, but with a bit of practice you could get it down to 4! |
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Impact:
Contributes to conservation, reforestation and education in
every nation! |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
Awaiting more sites! |
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Emails with a Conscience
Combine your
email activities with saving the planet. The
methodology behind these schemes is that funds are
raised for environmental projects via advertising
generated in the normal course of emailing. If you
don't mind a bit of advertising in your email, then
saving the planet couldn’t be easier. |
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Ecology Fund
 Sign
up for a free Ecology Fund email account, which works just like
GMail or Hotmail. At least 50% of the revenue EcologyFund
generates from advertising on email web pages goes to
EcologyFund environmental projects!
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Time Taken:
Under 2
minutes. |
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Impact:
Conserves precious rainforest and animal habitat. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
3 more to explore!
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Energy Saving / Offsetting Software
The purpose
of the following free pieces of software in the
websites below are to tweak the settings on your pc
so that it consumes less power or to provide a
mechanism to offset CO2. All you have to do
is to install them and the programs take over. It’s
so easy to be ‘green’. |
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CO2 Saver
 Download
the 100% free CO2 Saver application to automatically optimize
your PC’s power consumption by using a more effective power save
mode. You will be able to see your savings in real-time
translated to more environmental terms.
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Time Taken:
A few
minutes to set it up. After that, go and put your feet up. |
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Impact:
Saves
on energy bills and cuts down on C02 emissions. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
3 more to explore!
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'Green' Educational Games
There are
many websites out there that provide information on
how to become green. The following websites take a
different angle and educate you about environmental
issues through games. There are games for the young
and old alike. You can’t beat having fun while you
learn. |
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Turn It All Off
 Play
a game that revolves around you turning electrical equipment off
at night. Then find out how much money you could save.
Occasional info panel notes pop up to inform you of various
'green' statistics.
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Time Taken:
Up to 10
minutes. Fun, green, learn! |
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Impact:
Educational and inspirational to become 'green'. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
7 more to explore!
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'Green' Games that Donate Free
Money
Free games
that donate money to environmental charities at no
cost to you, whilst you play are a great
combination. The donations are raised through
advertising revenue generated via adverts being
displayed whilst you’re paying the game. If you
don’t mind this, then have a go at the games on
offer in the following links. |
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CarbonGeeks
 Offset
CO2 emissions by answering quiz questions. For each question
that you answer correct, 100 Grams of CO2 will be removed from
the global environment through a donation to one of Carbon
Geeks' Project Partners.
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Time Taken:
Up to 10
minutes, but maybe a bit longer if you're an egghead! |
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Impact:
Helps
to improve the atmosphere we live in. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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'Green' Toolbar
This is an
easy way to help out environmental projects and all
you have to do is to install a toolbar in your
Internet browser. The toolbar will provide easy
access to websites that focus on donating money to
environmental projects at no cost to you. |
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Care2 Toolbar
 Download
Care2's free toolbar. Every day you use it, a donation will be
made on your behalf to save 25 square feet of Amazon rainforest
at no cost to you. Toolbar includes email notification, links to
click-to-donate sites, Care2 action alerts etc.
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Time Taken:
A few
minutes to install to save a few feet of rainforest. |
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Impact:
Keeps
the Amazon rainforest looking like a rainforest. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
1 more to explore!
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Miscellaneous
Each of the
initiatives linked to in this category all focus on
a specific but separate topic from each other. Each
topic is too specialized to be given its own
category hence the Miscellaneous tag. |
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Open Green Map
 Open
Green Map interactively charts natural, cultural and green
living sites in your community and worldwide. You can enhance
every site, path and area on any map, and share your insights,
impacts, images and videos.
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Time Taken:
Up to 20 minutes
depending on how much you know about your locality |
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Impact:
Provides locally sourced 'green' information in your area |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
3 more to explore!
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Paper Saving Printing
Tweak your
printing settings so that you have more control over
what you print and how your print it. Potential to
save lots of paper using the software in the
following websites. |
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FinePrint
Software
 FinePrint
saves ink, paper, time and money! It allows you to delete
unwanted pages, print multiple pages on a sheet, combine
multiple print jobs into one etc. The trial version is free, but
prints a small banner on each page.
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Time Taken:
A few
minutes to download and install. |
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Impact:
Paperless office? Well, more like the Less Paper office! |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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Search Engines with a Conscience
Just by
using internet search engines, you can help to raise
funds for environmental projects. Donations are
raised through advertising revenue. Also listed are
search engines which by virtue of their background
screen alone claim to consume less power on your pc.
See it to believe it! |
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Blackle
 Blackle
is a search engine that is powered by Google Custom Search.
Blackle's website is predominantly black in colour, which
apparently saves energy over other colours. It is a miniscule
saving, but together with other people using it, could be
converted into a sizeable saving.
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Time Taken:
A few
seconds for a search. Seek and ye shall find! |
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Impact:
Saves
on energy bills and cuts down on C02 emissions. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
6 more to explore!
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Send Ecards,
Save The Planet
Preserve the
forests by not posting physical paper cards. Instead
use e-cards to deliver your message, right from your
pc. |
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Care2 eCards
 With
Care2's ecard service you have over 25,000 different designs to
put a smile on someone's face. For every eCard sent, Care2 makes
a donation to an environmental non-profit to save a square foot
of rainforest.
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Time Taken:
Under 2
minutes |
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Impact:
Brightens someone's day and conserves the rainforests. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
Awaiting more sites! |
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View, Listen or Join To
Donate For Free
All you have
to do to generate funds for environmental projects
around the world is to join a mailing list or watch
videos from any
of the websites listed below. Couldn’t get any
easier that that. |
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Jack Johnson
Music
 With
each complete video you view about some of the most compelling
issues of our world, Jack Johnson, via his new charity, the
Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation, will donate $1 to the
associated non-profit group.
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Time Taken:
Under 2
minutes |
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Impact:
Provides education on important topics as well raising money
charities |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
8 more to explore!
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Virtual Trees, Real Trees
This
initiative can be performed from your home pc and
all you have to do is to click on a tree and post a
message. Your click will be counted along with many
others to plant a real tree in the real world. |
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ecotonoha
 Ecotonoha
is a project to nurture a virtual tree collaboratively and at
the same time contribute to the actual environment to cope with
global warming. Add a leaf to the virtual tree and as it grows,
so a real tree will be planted. 100 leaves will make 1 tree.
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Time Taken:
A few
minutes. Go on, 'branch' out and make a difference today. |
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Impact:
Contributing to reducing CO2 in the environment. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
1 more to explore!
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Volunteer
Your Spare Computer Power
Fancy
helping out environmental project with virtually no
input from yourself. Check out the websites below,
who all offer a piece free software which once
installed onto your pc will then use the spare
processing power of your pc to work on calculations
that are vital for environmental projects worldwide.
Your pc is quite safe as no spyware, malware or
trojans are contained with these free pieces of
software. |
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ClimatePrediction.Net
 Use
the spare processing power of your pc to work on a small part of
an experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in
the 21st century. The results are combined with thousands of
other computers around the world. Just install some free
software and that's it!
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Time Taken:
Under
10 minutes to install. After that, let the pc take the strain. |
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Impact:
Provides information on climate prediction affecting food
production, water resources, ecosystems etc. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
3 more to explore!
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Web Surfing
Did you know
that you can surf the web, view other people's
websites and gain credits/points for doing so. Big
deal, eh! But these credits/points can be exchanged
for cash to be donated to charity. The concept is
known as Traffic Exchanges. |
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Surf 4 the Earth
 This is a website
traffic exchange programme that helps you to gain exposure of your website/blog.
The more you view other websites, the more exposure you will get for yours.
You gain credits for doing this, which can then be donated to wildlife and
conservation charities as cash.
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Time Taken:
From 20
seconds to as long as you want - until you get bored! |
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Impact:
Potential
to donate cash to wildlife and conservation projects. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
Awaiting more sites! |
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