Product Description

This is 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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124775 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'If you want to make a difference then I can do no better than to recommend this book.' Daily Telegraph 'Michael Norton is a one-man "ideas factory" whose new book suggests some whacky ways in which, with a little bit of effort, people really can change the world for the better.' Guardian 'By far the most enticing and informative book!I finally stopped being a cynic.' Daily Mail 'If you want to help bring about change but don't know where to start, this is the book for you!packed with ideas, information and useful websites.' Woman and Home

From the Publisher
The ultimate answer for anyone who has ever asked 'how can I make a difference?'

About the Author
Michael Norton is the founder of the Directory of Social Change -- the UK's leading agency providing information, training and support to voluntary organisations, the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) and YouthBank UK. He has also established Changemakers and an international summer school for young activists: Young People Change the World! He has also written numerous books on fundraising and charity.

Customer Reviews

The ideal gift book for family and friends
This is a great reference book; full of great ideas to improve the planet that we all live on, and also ideas to improve the lifestyles of people who are more dis-advantaged than we are. What you get are 365 ideas and plans for a "future course of action", which includes links on the Internet, which allows you to quickly to explore these ideas further.
It is full of facts and figures on a wide variety of subjects.

Inspiring and enormously motivating
As the title suggests, there is an idea for each day of the year on how we can make a difference to the wider world, smaller commmunities we live in or just our own lives. The ideas vary greatly and are catergorised by themes, such as "culture and creativity", "discrimination", "environment" or "health". I have often found myself amazed at the ideas and information offered, yet the vast majority feel very achieveable... such as be a helpline volunteer, hold a street party or become a virtual volunteer. There is no intimidating amount of text to read, either. A fantastic resource.

An informative book to help people get more green
It's a very informative book, with a different activity for each day, great ideas to give our world and ourselves a better future. I found its premise quite good - getting people to act in a more positive way on different issues. But are these 'themes' or priorities Michael Norton's or have they been voted on by others? He doesn't seem to care much about disabled or older people or women much - they don't have their own theme but young people do. In my view young people and children get quite enough resources and attention. His other quests aren't ambitious enough. There should be free education and health care full-stop, not just 'universal primary education'.

I would also prefer a 'Dictionary of Activism' or something similar as the 365 things to do on each day are just too big to do on each day. I will be buying this book at some point when I've got some money. At the moment it's borrowed from the library.