It is always worth doing something...
Thanks for taking an interest in our book. The book is written by Michael Norton. Michael spent two years collecting ideas, developing details and researching further information sources and a practical guide to things that everyone can do everyday.
(If you want to go into more detail about particular issues, he also offers lots of additional places you can investigate to find out more.)
Michael promotes the idea that it is always worth doing something, and no-one needs to feel irrelevant to the world's problems. He's written the book in an intelligent, exciting and straightforward way that will help you realise how much even your own small and individual actions can help make a difference and how much fun you can have doing them!
This ingenious handbook 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.
Including...
- Support trade justice: buy three footballs
- Avoid landfills: start freecycling
- Create a lifeline: for remote African villages with wind-up radio
- Sow the seeds of a green revolution: go guerrilla gardening
- Organise a fundraising event: speed dating for safer childbirth
- Get out of debt: join the church of Stop Shopping
- Fight child slavery: nibble on some fairtrade chocolate
- Influence the world's media: become a blogger
Buy the Book
You can buy the US edition of the book from amazon.com here and the UK edition from amazon.co.uk here
You can buy international editions of the book direct. Click for Canadian Edition from Anansi
Australian Edition from Penguin and the
South African Edition from Double Story, Juta.
The Author
Michael Norton OBE, changed the face of charity in the UK. Founder of the Directory of Social Change, the UK's lead agency for voluntary organisations, and CIVA, the Centre for innovation in Voluntary Action, he has set up street-children's banks in South Asia and, with Childline, a netwrk of phone help lines for street children in India.
Book Reviews
To read some of the reader reviews of the book posted on Amazon and LibraryThing click here
