0 Linkin Park Leads #GivingTuesday With Music For Relief

Help give a unique holiday gift to friends
and family, promoting clean-energy with
Linkin Park.
Just in time for #GivingTuesday
(November 27), Linkin Park, together with
Music for Relief and the United Nations
Foundation to support the work of the
United Nations, are announcing a way for
fans to give a unique holiday gift to
friends and family this season to provide
clean energy solutions for people who
have no access to electricity.
Here's how it works. You can give a solar
light, solar power for hospitals in health
clinics, or Power the World's latest clean
energy tool, the SOCCKET, which is a
soccer ball that is also a portable
generator at powertheworld.org . You
make a donation on behalf of a loved one,
they get an e-card, and someone without
electricity gets the safe, clean energy they
need to improve their quality of life.
Linkin Park established Power the World
in support of UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon's Sustainable Energy for All
Initiative. Building on previous Power the
World efforts to bring solar lights to
homes in Haiti and solar power to health
clinics in Uganda, the Grammy-Award
winning band has launched a new
campaign to combat energy poverty by
bringing the first eco-friendly portable
generator housed in a soccer ball to Latin
America.
Energy poverty is the lack of access to
modern energy services such as
electricity and cooking facilities that do
not cause air pollution. One in five people
globally lacks access to electricity and
three billion rely on highly polluting solid
fuels such as wood, coal or charcoal for
cooking. At 2012 World Economic Forum
energy poverty was named one of the
worst forms of poverty because it
undermines all aspects of development.
This holiday season, Power the World is
offering several ways to give gifts that
help alleviate energy poverty.
To bring clean energy to areas suffering
from energy poverty in Latin America,
Linkin Park, through their non-profit
organization Music for Relief, is working
with Uncharted Play, a social enterprise
that designs and manufactures the
SOCCKET. Designed to amplify existing
play behavior. The SOCCKET provides a
healthy energy alternative by improving
access to lighting and electricity. With just
thirty minutes of play a household has
access to three hours of light.
You can also make a donation to benefit
families affected by Hurricane Sandy this
holiday at Musicforrelief.org . Music for
Relief is encouraging supporters to kick
off the giving season on November 27th
for #GivingTuesday, a movement to
celebrate giving, and establish a day of
giving right after the Thanksgiving holiday
and nationally recognized shopping days
that follow. This first-of-its-kind effort,
launching on November 27, 2012, will
harness the collective power of a blend of
partners, including charities, families,
businesses and individuals, to transform
how people think about, talk about and
participate in the giving season.
Linkin Park's official fan club, Linkin Park
Underground, launches it's 12th year on
November 15, 2012. Linkin Park
Underground has always been more of a
community, rather than just a fan club.
Membership to LPU allows fans into the
Linkin Park world with access to the
completely redesigned
LPUnderground.com , meet and greets,
exclusive pre-sales, special events and
early entry into Linkin Park shows.
"I don't think of the LPU as a fan club. I
think of it of as a community," says Linkin
Park bassist Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell. "Over
the years, I have had the opportunity to
meet thousands of members of the LPU
all over the world, and one thing
continues to impress me. It's not how
open, friendly, and giving you are with us,
but rather, with each other."
This year's membership package includes
a t-shirt, water bottle, carabiner key
chain, guitar pick, laminate and lanyard
plus a $5 credit to the LPU store. Each
year, Linkin Park Underground also
releases a new CD to members only, filled
with never before released demos chosen
by the band members. For a limited time
only, fans can purchase the CD for only $
1 when they join Linkin Park
Underground. As an added bonus, all
fans who join LPU between November 15
and December 1 will be entered into a
contest for a chance to win 2 tickets and
a meet and greet to a future Linkin Park
show of their choice. For more
information on, go to
www.LPUnderground.co