Got a spare buck? Literally… just one dollar. Want to use your iPhone 4 guilt free? Why don’t you give it to The Nature Conservancy, and they’ll use it to offset the lifetime CO2 emissions of your iPhone 4? That’s a penny for each pound of carbon!
The donation drive is being headed by Philanthroper, a daily deals site (and friend to Cult of Mac) with a difference: they highlight a single charity every day and encourage people to donate just one dollar to it, with the philosophy that people are more likely to give a buck a day to a bunch of charities than a few hundred a year to one charity.
They do great work, and it couldn’t be easier to send a buck: all you need is a PayPal account. You can even deduct your donation from your taxes!
Seriously, if you’ve got an iPhone 4 and are even half-serious about the environment, this is a dollar well spent. You can’t put a price on the piece of mind that sustainable responsibility can bring.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
