Donate $100 of Somebody Else’s Money to Green & Humanitarian Causes

It would be great if we could all afford to regularly give money to organizations that promote green causes. Unfortunately, many of us just aren’t able to donate much due to our own budgetary limitations. Luckily for us, sometimes those people who have plenty of cash to spare are willing to pony up for the rest of us in exchange for some non-monetary effort of our own. That’s what the Hinkle Charitable Foundation (HCF) is willing to donate $100 to the Solar Electric Light Fund for every person who reads three primers on energy usage and makes a commitment to change.

From TheHCF.org:

To encourage each reader to become an agent against global warming, we are again issuing a challenge. For each person who reads these three primers and commits to pursue them, we will make a $100 donation in his or her name to the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF). SELF is a truly worthy non-profit organization that simultaneously fights global poverty and climate change. SELF’s primary mission is to install local solar electric power generators in rural third-world areas. In many instances, SELF’s installations are directed to education, health and irrigation facilities and can include joint ventures, where local participants invest in a portion of the project. Providing solar electric power to remote, off-grid people frees them from the unpalatable alternatives of either using kerosene-generated power (which is both bodily and environmental dangerous) or living with no electricity, no lights, no irrigation possibilities, and no connection to the outside world.

As with last year’s challenge, to accept the challenge below, you only need to send us an email. Tell us you will commit yourself (on the honor system) to move forward toward more climate-friendly living and that you’ll try to complete the steps below. The $100 contributions to SELF will be limited to the first 1,000 responders.

The three primers are on compact fluorescent lights, tankless water heaters and reducing idling. It’s one of very few changes you’ll ever get to have that much money donated on your behalf without having to spend a dime of your own, so take it now!

Link [TheHCF.org] via [The Action Blog]