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Now’s your chance to make a difference with technology and children in the world’s poorest countries. “The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In order to accomplish our goal, we need people who believe in what we’re doing and want to help make education for the world’s children a priority, not a privilege. Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. During this time, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.” We just donated one. Have you?

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Yesterday, all across the U.S., thousands marched in protest to the war in Iraq. In San Francisco, “for three minutes the demonstrators lay on the pavement, representing what organizers said were more than 1 million Iraqis killed since the war began in 2003. The protesters then resumed their march from San Francisco’s Civic Center to Dolores Park...March organizers put their number at 30,000 - old, young, workers, students, religious leaders. They filled up Market Street for several blocks, shouting that U.S. troops should be brought home and carrying banners decrying the war.” More at SFGate.

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”Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event on October 20, 2007. On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. To promote long-lasting energy saving, we plan to distribute free compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the city...We were inspired by a similar event recently held in Sydney, Australia, called Earth Hour. In Sydney, 2.2 million people participated. Their one hour of lights out meant that 24.86 tons of carbon dioxide were not released into the air - the equivalent of taking 48,613 cars off the road for one hour.” We’ll be turning our lights off to participate. Even Google is going dark today.

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Over on the Flickr blog today, Heather Champ writes: “October is Breast Cancer awareness month and if you think pink, you can help the Flickrverse raise up to $50,000 for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. For each pink photo you add to Passionately Pink for the Cure, Yahoo! will donate $1. You can add up to two pink photos a day, so please think about making a month long commitment to sharing your pink photos.” I just added my photo above of the pink people from Love Parade 2004 and will be adding more pink goodness all month. Hope you’ll do it too!

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Charity is “a nonprofit organization stimulating greater global awareness about extreme poverty, educating the public, and provoking compassionate and intelligent giving.” Their first mission is focused on providing clean water through the construction of more than 158 wells in 6 African countries. Part of the program is to teach well maintenance and other facets so the new water source can continue at maximum capacity.  The public awareness campaign and direct action works at low-cost level. Buy a virtual bottle of water for $20. All of that donation goes to well projects in Africa. It can take anywhere from 200 to 500 bottles to build a well. It’s an easy way to get involved in solving one of our world’s main problems.

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