April showers. (Tools for green living: resources for eco-awareness and action).

With an acre of rainforest disappearing every two seconds, it's certainly a race to save this precious resource. And now that the online community Care2.com has teamed up with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), it's an Internet marathon everyone can join. Every day that the site (http://rainforest.care2.com/) is visited by a "race contestant," who registers for free, sponsors donate money to TNC's Adopt-an-Acre Program. A running tally tracks the amount of South American rainforest earmarked for preservation until the race ends April 22. An extra 1,000 acres will be donated in the name of the top 100 participants.

To give several lucky people a head start on their Earth Day resolution to cut down on energy consumption, the Alliance to Save Energy is giving away a variety of Energy Star home products, like a clothes washer, stereo and mulching lawn mower. Test your clean energy knowledge with a four-question pop quiz (www.ase.org/earthday/contest) and you're automatically entered to win. Contest ends April 28.