100 Ways to Reduce Your Impact

Step 56 Materials on the holidays are so before this instructable

Instead of purchasing items that will sit in closets after the holidays, donate to different organizations in your receiver's name. Or, Make your own gift!

This year, my mom donated money to Heifer International, which donates female cows, chickens, and other livestock to developing nations. They are female that have already been impregnated. That way they can share the animal's offspring with others.

Search for other charities here.

Thanks Bostonthrifty.

Comments

[fwater]

Donating animals to stone-age nations who will undoubtable burn millions of acres of rainforest to feed them so I can have a Big Mac, enormous irresponsibility fail. Counts as 5 fails. Instead of pregnant cows, how about numerous tools and instruction in agriculture.

[dobbylvr]

Giving livestock to poor families in developing nations so that they can make a living and EAT is not a fail. It is quite the opposite.

[ret1614]

fwater has a point though... cows havta eat something, and if the people wanna feed 'em, the have to grow grass. Cows won't eat much else. At least in my experience they don't. Agricultural instruction would definitely be better. More food from less land, less land destroyed.