Buy the Bay is a collaborative effort to help preserve the beach we love.

Working with some of their favorite artists, designers, writers and musicians, they are transforming precious beach experiences into tangible objects that you can own or give to someone else. These beautifully crafted items reflect the things everyone cherishes most about the beach, and are available to own or share as a gift. All of the proceeds directly benefit Heal the Bay’s efforts toward keeping Santa Monica Bay safe, healthy and clean for all to enjoy.

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How many gift cards do you have sitting in your wallet? We guess you have at least $5 of unused gift cards right now.  What’s 5 bucks going to buy you?  Maybe a pair of socks…but 10 people giving 5 bucks will buy a kid a winter coat, or 1000 people giving $5 may give that same kid a warm bedroom to sleep in through the night.

Gift Card Giver is a new form of giving. They collect and distribute the cards to appropriate Non-Profit Organizations that can use those cards to help others. It’s a grass roots campaign that has created a new form of giving and you are an important piece to the idea coming to life. To learn more about the organization, visit Gift Card Giver>>

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charity: water was born in September. Each year for charity: water’s birthday, they team up with September babies and other supporters to take on something really big. This year’s September Campaign will bring clean and safe drinking water to the Bayaka people in Central African Republic – one of the poorest and most remote countries in the world. Their goal is to raise $1.7 million with the help of individual fundraisers. 100% of the money raised will directly fund sustainable water projects. (more…)

Tuesday evening a major earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince causing catastrophic destruction in the western hemisphere’s most impoverished nation. At least 2 million people have been affected. Oxfam has 200 staff on-the-ground responding with public health, water, and sanitation services to prevent the spread of disease.

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Energy use is on the rise around the world. Increasing demand requires additional resources to keep costs low, ensure reliability, and reduce America’s dependence on foreign energy sources. At the same time, this growing demandmust be addressed in the context of global climate change. Consumers can make a significant difference on all these fronts by reducing demand through simple energy efficeincy measures. (more…)

The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States. With more than 2,000,000 members worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Through its projects — Repower America, the WE Campaign, and the Reality Coalition — and its affiliated organization, The Climate Protection Action Fund, the Alliance seeks to present choices and offer changes that will protect our planet for future generations.
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Simple Steps is a new initiative by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for people who are looking for easy, everyday actions they can do to protect our health, our homes — and our planet. Whether you have a minute, a morning, or a month, you can take simple steps in your life to really make a difference.

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It’s hard not to think about water today. In the western world, we face growing concerns about our stewardship of the world’s most precious resource. There’s talk of shortages, evidence of reservoirs and aquifers drying up, and of course, plenty of people who simply don’t care.

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From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people’s radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

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Housing Works is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States, as well as the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since our founding in 1990, we have provided lifesaving services, such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.

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