by Michael Norton (Author)
You want to change the world? Of course you do. But where do you begin? This ingenious handbook shows how the smallest actions can impact on your local community and the wider world. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organisations, it suggests one action for every day of the year. Some are intriguing, many are unusual, a few involve fundraising, almost all can be planned or done from your home or computer, most will be fun, all are achievable. They include: support trade justice: buy three footballs; avoid landfills by freecycling; create a lifeline for remote African villages with a wind-up radio; sow the seeds of a green revolution: guerrilla gardening; organise a fundraising event: speed dating for safer childbirth; get out of debt: join the Church of Stop Shopping; fight child slavery with fairtrade chocolate; and influence the world's media: become a blogger. This is the book to get you started...one day at a time.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Published: 05 Dec 2005
ISBN 10: 0954930916
ISBN 13: 9780954930912