23rd Aug 2012 Let's Change The World

I have never heard of the lady called Eugenie Harvey, nor the movement she co-founded called: 'We are what we do', nor her booked recently published called 'Let's change the world, subtitled: Small actions x many people = great changes'.

She and the co-founder David Robinson, a seasoned social activists, direct this movement 'We are what we do', trying to involve everyone on earth to do whatever little they can, however insignificant it might seem, to actively take part in this very ambitious but amazingly easy task of bettering the world. By simply effecting small and simple actions but consciously bearing the objective in mind.

This book is now also translated in Spanish and published here in Spain. During the interview by the local press, she stated some examples of the simple things we all do in our daily life, with suggestions that we can do them differently and better. Most of them are suggested by 3,000 people responding by email and correspondence, to their petition published on the 'Guardian' in Britain, over the period of their participating and promoting what they aim to do as a new life long project and practice. The following are just a few of them:

• Smile, and retururn smiles
• Spend some time each day with people of different generation (race, culture)
• Take bath with someone you like
• Give right of way Ito another vehicle at least once each trip
• Learn some jokes and tell them. Tell stories too to children
• Listen and respond to somebody when you are needed
• Turn off the tap when you are brushing teeth
• Stop using plastic bags
• Switch off lights when they are not necessary any more
• Unplug the mobile when it's not charging
• Turn off all domestic appliances when not in use
• Eat with the family as regularly as possible
• Write to someone with loving words
• Talk to your neighbours often
• Learn to do first aid
• Cook something for friends
• Do something for others without expecting anything in return
• Touch people, a hug, a kiss, a squeeze of the hand, a pat on the shoulder
• Give away things you don't use any more to those who need them
• Recycle eye glasses - many people don't know this, they have old glasses in the back of forgotten drawers while each year there are 200 millions people in the world who badly need them. Enter: OpticsxMon.upc.edu

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