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Austrian Man Donates Fortune to Live in Hut
The Telegraph

Karl Rabeder, a 47 year old businessman from Telfs, Austria plans donate his fortune, including a luxury villa in the Alps and farmhouse in Provence, to a microcredit charity, and then plans to reti...

Plates With Purpose by Riverside Design

While giving a recycled gift is good in its own right, it’s even better when the gift gives back. Plates With Purpose give a portion of its proceeds to local and national nonprofit organizations. ...

Inspiration: In Lieu of Gifts

Earlier this week, we were inspired by an email sent around by my younger sister. Instead of gifts this season, she's asking the family to help purchase dairy goats for an impoverished community. ...

10 Green Gifts for the Home Renovator
Best Green Gifts 2009

The Holidays are all about Home. Kitchens filled with family recipes and helping hands; dining rooms stuffed with musical chairs. For some of us, Home is in front of the fireplace, on our parents'...

Gazelle: Recycle Your Electronics For Cash

When it comes to old electronics, the usual options are: donate it (great idea but we paid a lot of money for this); recycle it (it's only a few years old, and we'd like to get some money for it); ...

Nothing to Give to Charity? Then Donate Blood

If the recession has you cutting back on your charitable giving this year, then fulfill your giving quota by donating blood. What's more green than giving the gift of life - it's something you can't b...

Portland Fruit Tree Project

Gardening is new and bewildering to us, so we need a service like Portland's Fruit Tree Project: a team of volunteers helps care for the fruit and nut trees in your yard, picks the fruit (keeping it f...