Linkin Park is teaming up with the United Nations via the band's charitable foundation, Music For Relief, to help give the gift of clean energy next Tuesday (November 27th) on what is being labeled "Giving Tuesday." Throughout the day-long event and the holiday season, fans who make a donation at PowerTheWorld.org will be able to give a solar light to someone without electricity or solar power to a hospital or health clinic in need of energy. Fans can also provide someone in need with the "Soccket," a new clean energy tool that's a combination soccer ball and power generator.

• Linkin Park have been active in supporting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's "Sustainable Energy for All" initiative.
• Music For Relief was originally started in 2005 to provide funds and help for victims of that year's catastrophic Asian tsunami.
• Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington told us a while back that trying to keep up with all the trouble spots in the world can be daunting sometimes: "We're always trying to, you know, raise awareness for people who are in need and people who are devastated by natural disasters, and there's so many of them going on in the world that it almost becomes impossible to -- it feels like we can't do anything sometimes. But there's lot of ways that we try to give back. That's something that, you know, we've done and we continue to try to do."
• Linkin Park's Power The World program has made efforts to combat energy poverty by bringing solar lights to homes in Haiti and solar power to health clinics in Uganda, while also promoting the arrival of the Soccket in Latin America.
• The California-based band has been touring for much of the year behind its fifth album, Living Things, and won an American Music Award on Sunday night (November 18th) for Favorite Alternative Rock Artist.