Xerces Society because no one cares for the smallest among us - insects - who do all the work.
The Elephant Sanctuarybof Tennessee because the largest brained creatures on the planet are routinely abused by us for labor and entertainment.
The Pacific Crest Train Association, Appalachian Train Conservancy and the Appalachian Mountain Club because I like their projects and fantasize about quitting to take a long walk in the woods.
Bat Conservation International because if we don’t care for them they will die. Human activity is wiping them out. Bats are critical and like insects no one seems to love them.
The Innocence Project because the shift to tough-on-crime / one-victim-is-enough-evidence has put a lot of people in jail who were tricked into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
RIP Medical Debt because when I was younger I used to scare myself into saving like crazy by spending a lot of time reading credit repair forums. So many of the stories were profoundly sad people being endlessly hounded by 3rd tier debt holders who didn’t know their rights and who were being psychologically destroyed. Many of the stories were people with marginal finances at best who had a medical issue (it goes without saying that medical issues are unexpected) and got destroyed in the process. So real suffering here.
Edit: forgot
Wikipedia. Because I use the hell out of it.
Archive.org because I outsource my data hoarding plus I see a lot of value in what they do.
The Elephant Sanctuarybof Tennessee because the largest brained creatures on the planet are routinely abused by us for labor and entertainment.
The Pacific Crest Train Association, Appalachian Train Conservancy and the Appalachian Mountain Club because I like their projects and fantasize about quitting to take a long walk in the woods.
Bat Conservation International because if we don’t care for them they will die. Human activity is wiping them out. Bats are critical and like insects no one seems to love them.
The Innocence Project because the shift to tough-on-crime / one-victim-is-enough-evidence has put a lot of people in jail who were tricked into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
RIP Medical Debt because when I was younger I used to scare myself into saving like crazy by spending a lot of time reading credit repair forums. So many of the stories were profoundly sad people being endlessly hounded by 3rd tier debt holders who didn’t know their rights and who were being psychologically destroyed. Many of the stories were people with marginal finances at best who had a medical issue (it goes without saying that medical issues are unexpected) and got destroyed in the process. So real suffering here.
Edit: forgot
Wikipedia. Because I use the hell out of it.
Archive.org because I outsource my data hoarding plus I see a lot of value in what they do.