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1. Get a comprehensive, balanced lowdown on nearly any controversial issue with the nonprofit charity ProCon.org: http://www.procon.org/.

2. Check out the online, interactive Global Challenge Award, a program which “empowers students to believe that they can make a difference not only on their own lives and national economies but on the planet itself”: http://www.globalchallengeaward.org/display/public/Home.

3. Learn about holidays around the world on Earth Calendar: http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php.

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1. What if there was a strategy game that, instead of teaching players how to win with machine guns and full-scale war, taught players how to win with nonviolent civic action?  Check out this video game by the incredible A Force More Powerful project and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict: http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/index.php.

2. Give your mom a great gift and also make a difference with this Mother’s Day ideas from blogger Britt Bravo: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2010/04/do-good-mothers-day-gift-and-donation.html.

3. Find out how your favorite celebrities are making the world a better place with news and databases from Look To The Stars, a sweet site devoted to celebrity giving: http://www.looktothestars.org/.