365 Ways to Change the World: How to Make a Difference One Day at a Time

by Michael Norton (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.29

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.29

  A sophisticated and subversive guide on how to make a difference ...one day at a time. You watch the news every night. You turn off your television set, disturbed by what you've seen and wondering what, if anything, you can do to make a difference. This is the book you need to get started. You may think that the issues which confront us are so huge, so complicated, so difficult to deal with that it's hard to believe anything we can do will have a meaningful impact but Michael Norton will prove you wrong. A lot of people doing a lot of little things could have a huge impact. This book has an idea-a-day for changing the world. Most are quite simple, can be done from home, and will not take much time. You can make a start whenever you like. Just open the book at today's date, read, enjoy, be inspired to action - and do something!

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.98

  365 Ways to Change the World is the ultimate answer for anyone who has ever asked 'how can I make a difference?' 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.