Use a free web based email and save Amazon rainforest with every email

There are several companies offering free web based email accounts (like Hotmail and Yahoo!), but only few which donate a portion of their revenue to charity. So far I have found three of these:

Planet-Save

EcologyFund

Care2

EcologyFund uses some intrusive advertising like pop-ups and therefore I recommend using the other two instead. In addition to using less intrusive advertising the ads you see on Planet-Save and Care2 are always related to ecological products and services. Many of these are actually quite interesting if you are into that sort of thing. Because of the excessive pop-up advertising I don't consider EcologyFund to really qualify as an Easy Donation. Planet-Save on the other hand is excellent and in some ways even better than the industry standard Hotmail.

The biggest advantage of using Planet-Save or Care2 instead of Hotmail is the amount of junk mail you are going to get. Even if you never tell anyone about your Hotmail account, you will soon start receiving junk mail and lots of it. With Planet-Save you will be getting significantly less junk mail if at all.

In addition to receiving less junk mail there are other benefits as well. For example you don't need to login every 30 days to keep your Planet-Save account active (like you do with Hotmail).

Conclusion

Planet-Save and Care2 are good alternatives to Hotmail and other web based email services. If you use web based email, why not use Planet-Save or Care2 and you will automatically help raise a little bit of money for a good cause.

http://www.planet-save.com