13 ways to change the world without spending a cent

I have just finished reading this amazing book, perhaps you have heard of it – 365 Ways to Change the World. I urge everyone to go out and buy or borrow this because of its open optimism and generosity of hope. You finish and can’t help but be inspired.

Even if you don’t, here are some of my favourite picks from it. Links are provided, so you can do something from your own home. Other places ask for a modest personal contribution. They all cost you nothing, but you will have given so much.

Go Here. Look at the very top toolbar. For just one or two clicks of your mouse, you can also make a difference in the causes for:

• World Hunger 
• Breast Cancer
• Child Health
• Literacy
• Rainforests
• Animal Rescue

 You can also sign up for daily prompts to come back and do the same again. And again. And again….

These sites follow on a similar theme:

• The Ecology Fund 
• Solve Poverty 
• Poverty Fighters 

These following sites are specifically for Australian citizens, but there is almost certainly equivalent institutions in other countries.

• Give Blood
• Be an organ donor (Australia has one of the lowest organ donation rates in the world. We can change this.)
• National Tree Day
• Recycle more of your green household waste. Estimates put the total amount of our green household waste (kitchen scraps etc) at between 30-40%. If we got that number down, that’s less that’s going into landfill and more into the garden, by means of composting or worm farming. We began our own worm farm on the weekend – more details on that over the next few days!

Edited: Plus one more!

• Thanks to Bub and Pie I’ve just learned of this site: Free Rice is a site where you can test your vocabulary skills, and for every word you get right they donate 10 grains of rice. So far, I’ve gotten five out of five right! I think this place will be addictive….

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