Change The World in Your Lunch Hour
by A guide to small actions we can all take as individuals that will be of benefit to everyone.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the troubles facing the world today, so overwhelmed that you start to believe nothing you could do will help. Think again. We all have the ability to make a difference each and every day through simple actions that take hardly no time at all. Don’t know where to start? Try some of these ideas:
1. Use both sides of your paper. Billions of trees are cut down each and every year to supply the demand from workplaces, so don’t be wasteful.
2. Buy local and fair trade produce whenever you can.
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3. Put your name to an online petition for a cause you believe in.
4. Recycle your glasses, mobile phones and computers so they don’t end up in landfill.
5. Visit http://www.freerice.com/ to help feed hungry people (while giving your brain a work-out). For every answer you get right they’ll donate 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.
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6. Decline plastic bags. Invest in re-usable shopping bags instead and don’t let them gather dust!
7. Write or send a care package to a soldier stationed overseas. Visit http://www.penpalsforsoldiers.org/ to find out how.
8. Turn ALL appliances off at the switch whenever you aren’t using them.
9. Learn First-Aid. You never know when those skills may be needed.
10. Introduce yourself to an elderly person living in your block and have a chat with them.
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