LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Warner Bros. Records) 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 its 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 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 (https://lpunderground.com/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.com
www.linkinpark.com
MUSIC FOR RELIEF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to victims of natural disasters and the prevention of such disasters. Since its inception in 2005,
Music for Relief has raised over $5 million for victims of multiple disasters across four continents including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, hurricane Katrina, China's Wenchuan earthquake, a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2011 earthquake & tsunami in Japan.
Music for Relief also supports environmental programs as a means of disaster risk mitigation including the planting of over 1 million trees to help reduce global warming. The organization was recently recognized by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Download to Donate program to raise funds and awareness in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. For more information visit www.musicforrelief.org.
LINKIN PARK is a Grammy-Award-winning, multi-platinum alternative rock band comprised of co-lead vocalist, Chester Bennington, drummer/percussionist, Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell, DJ, programmer Joe Hahn and
Mike Shinoda -- co-lead vocals, keyboards, guitar. The band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide, and is the biggest band on Facebook -- with over 45 million fans and counting. In the span of time since 2000, when
Linkin Park debuted on the Billboard 200 -- no other artist has had more top 10 singles on the Alternative chart and, with the release of their latest album, LIVING THINGS (Machine Shop Recordings /Warner Bros), which reached #1 in over 20 countries, no other band has achieved more #1 albums this century. In 2005,
Linkin Park founded
Music For Relief, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that has raised over 5 million dollars for victims of natural disasters and environmental projects. www.linkinpark.com
LP UNDERGROUND offers members access to a community of dedicated
Linkin Park fans from around the world. Membership to the LPU is the best way to get direct access to
Linkin Park and be part of the central meeting place for the LP community. Fans receive membership perks online, at concerts and special events, such as early entry into
Linkin Park shows and access to pre-sale tickets. Membership to LPU allows fans into the
Linkin Park family by providing them access to the band, merchandise, exclusive music and other offers. To order your LPU membership today, visit LPUnderground.com.
