* Books can be our best friends, our inspirations, our wisdom jewels and our delights. They nourish us deeply. It’s time to nourish Mama Earth for providing us with all the paper in those books! Have a tree planted for every book you buy at Eco-Libris.
* Make your adventures to discover the world a healthy thing for the world too! You can make your flights carbon neutral here.
* Instead of birthday and Christmas cards or presents you feel you *should* buy for friends and family~ why not gift them with a good feeling? You can gift them with the pleasure that a third world community has just been changed by being given a business loan, animals, tools, water or education. You can gift Hope through Oxfam Unwrapped Australia, UK and American websites. Plus, it feels kinda fun to tell someone you bought them a goat for their birthday.
* Become a lender to an entrepreneur in a developing country to help them fulfill their dreams. You can become a lender to change lives through Kiva.
* Planning a wedding, and don’t know what to have as those bags of sugared almondy thingies? I say give them a little bag of seeds, and a card that says a tree has been planted and named in their honour. What a beautiful emblem of your growing love that could be!
* The energy saving version of Google: Blackle
* Become a part of a heart shaped forest at Tree Nation
Got ideas and ways to save the world? Email me and I’ll add them!
With Mama Earth love,
Leonie
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I like the suggestions! There have been a couple of trees planted in my name when I was a kid. My mom and grandmother gave me a certificate on several birthdays for a tree to be planted in a forest in Israel. Good for teaching your kid something about nature, giving and sustainability, too!
I’m glad Blackle is still around and have used it, though I keep going back to Google because it’s more complete.
To add a tip of my own: become a Love Drop member (see lovedrop.us). You give as little as one dollar a month and they help one family in need through all of these microgifts. This way, you won’t really feel it in your wallet, but all these drops together do create a wave of positivity!
One of the ways we can be gentle to our world is to be conscious of the language we use to describe other people and places. I see here that you refer to third world countries and developing countries. Those are usually considered the same thing, and developing country is considered much less demeaning.