This is my second entry in this series (I pushed the first entry a few times and it is still on going).
My first action alert was a loan, which means you will get your money back or re-loan it depending on your preference. This loan is a donation.
If you want to make a loan rather than a donation while helping develop green solutions and reducing pollution and greenhouse gasses, please click here for my last Global Green action alert which focused on energy efficiency in Mongolia, which is surprisingly becoming one of the most polluted nations on earth due to inefficient practices. We can reverse that trend, but the effort has yet to get as much attention as it deserves. Make a green loan in Mongolia and help reduce pollution and global warming. There are currently around 40 green loans still needing lenders through Kiva.org!
One reason I hesitated to push my next particular effort is that it was somewhat in competition with another dKos effort: the Propane Project to provide heating oil to Native Americans who face high heating costs and so go through very cold winters without adequate heat. When I first read about the Propane Project I wanted to call it a band aid on the problem, but I realized right away that was not the right wording. "Band aid" has become a term of disrespect. So I revised how I wanted to refer to the Propane Project more as a tourniquet applied to a critically bleeding wound: absolutely necessary to save lives but not a long term solution.
I want to publicize a project I have mentioned before on dKos with some positive feedback which is something of a longer-term way of addressing the heating needs of Native Americans in cold winter areas: a solar heating project through the amazing organization Trees, Water, People. See below for some critical donations you can make to help people survive not just this winter, but many winters to come.