FreeRice.com - Not Really Green But It’s Great
After the item yesterday about the rising price of food and the potential for shortages this site popped to mind. This isn’t really a “green” related site but the principle and result is great. FreeRice.com was created in late 2007 by John Breen, a computer programmer from Bloomington Indiana to help his son study for the SAT. The site is a online word game where the player is presented with a word and four possible definitions, if they pick the correct definition FreeRice.com donates 20 grains of rice the United Nations World Food Program. The rice (actually, the money for it) is provided by sponsors who advertise on the site. The site generates enough traffic that enough rice is donated each day to feed over 7,000 people. As of early April over 25 billion grains of rice had been donated!
It’s fun, a great way for kids (and adults) to improve their vocabulary and help a very worthwhile cause - reducing world hunger. Go give it a shot.
There was a neat post on ZagatBuzz today. It concerned “green” restaurants and 
