Michael Dell originally announced, at the CES in January 2007, that he was introducing a global carbon-neutral initiative in the USA that would involve planting trees for customers to offset the carbon impact of electricity required to power their systems - thereby underscoring Dell’s commitment to continued broad environmental stewardship.

And in June 2007 Dell announced that he’s extending the tree-planting programme into Europe and reiterating Dell’s commitment to limiting environmental damage. As part of the ‘Plant a Tree for Me’ initiative, those buying Dell computers can help offset environmental damage by paying an additional £1 or £3 respectively, that will be channelled towards sapling plantation. (more…)

Save the Children, Battersea Park Walk - Sunday 19 August 2007

At the end of 2005 an estimated 15 million children worldwide had been orphaned by AIDS. The vast majority of them - about 12 million - live in sub-Saharan Africa and it’s estimated that within four years 25 million children will be AIDS orphans. Now, deep into 2007, people are working away in their own small ways to try to make a difference to that situation.

But sometimes people aren’t sure exactly what to do for the maximum impact or they wonder if their small contribution will even scratch the surface of the ‘big’ problem or else they just wonder how best to channel their efforts in the most effective way.

Well Save the Children and a concept called ‘Pushy Mums’ jointly came up with a great notion a while back; it’s being successfully repeated all over the place and with just a little bit of individual effort - it can make a difference. What they do is invite a bunch of pro-active mums to take part in a sponsored buggy-push-around to raise funds for children orphaned by AIDS. (more…)

Oxfam have have set up a simple to use email form asking Gordon Brown to be bold and put climate change and its impact on the poorest, the fight against poverty, and a just foreign policy on his list of things to address during his first 100 days as Prime Minister.

Donation4Charity thinks this is an excellent idea and will be a nice welcome for our new PM so he know what us, the voters want from our leader.

Come on Gord’ you know it makes sense!

>> Click here to complete the email form to Gordon Brown - it will take less than 2 minutes of your time!

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