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Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties
Ten Easy to Read Chapters
Hundreds of Easy to Implement Solutions
Synopsis
There are nearly 15 million college graduates in the United States between the ages of 20 and 30. While many of these people leave college with both the idealism and energy necessary to improve the world in which they live, they often lack the resources and guidance to do so efficiently and effectively. There are 25 million families in the United States with children under the age of eighteen. While many parents want their children to develop a sense of social and environmental responsibility, finding simple lessons to impart on a daily basis can prove daunting in the face of parenthood's many challenges. Yet, there already exist hundreds of organizations, businesses, and individuals committed to causes such as sustainable living, affordable health care, fair trade, green energy, socially responsible investing, corporate responsibility, and humanitarianism. Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties will be the first book to bring these resources together and to offer the next generation of leaders simple and tangible ways to make the world they are inheriting a better place
Our generation and the next face a myriad of environmental and social problems, on both a local and global scale, which are already affecting our quality of life. Ten Ways is designed to offer both practical, easy to implement suggestions for tackling many of these critical issues, as well as resources to help us connect with others already making a difference.
Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties:
- Includes extensive research on new ideas as well as innovative twists on ideas and strategies that are already making an impact.
- Provides easy to read chapters, which encourage you to concentrate on sections that pertain to and/or appeal to you.
- Offers you a resource guide with lists of organizations, websites, and businesses that are striving to implement each world-changing activity.
- Includes compelling and emotional true stories in each chapter about people who are changing the world.
- Provides a humorous and candid view of the tasks and responsibilities that lie before the next generations of leaders.
- Challenges you to examine your own life and search for ways that you can commit to a sustainable lifestyle.
- Starts an active, unified movement directed towards change.
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1: Ways to Embark on a Quest for Knowledge
Your twenties are an important time to discover exactly where your interests lie, and how your actions and decisions impact the world around you. This is the time to start formulating your own educated opinions about what matters the most. This chapter encourages you to discover your unique passions and viewpoints by exploring the world in which you live. It includes suggestions for finding different organizations, books, movies, and travel opportunities that will help you discover your distinctive voice. Chapter One challenges you to use curiosity, creativity, and energy to discover how to make the world a better place.
Chapter 2: Ways to Find Your Passion
Once you have found causes worthy of deeper exploration, consider one of the most effective ways to make an impact - volunteering. This chapter offers suggestions and resources for how to go about deciding where the best place is for you to devote your valuable time and energy. Chapter Two includes candid information and advice about what to look for and what to avoid as you seek the best volunteer placement. In addition, it profiles unique international and local volunteer programs. There already exists a volunteer position that is ideal for your needs and interests; this chapter will help you find it.
Chapter 3: Ways to Have Your Voice Be Heard
This chapter provides ideas for becoming more involved in political activity and community issues. In addition to the most obvious, voting, this chapter explores ways to get involved with political campaigns, includes templates for writing a persuasive letter, offers suggestions on how to challenge and/or support politicians, and details the various steps that need to be taken in order to change a particular policy/law, fight intolerance, run for office, or speak out in general about an issue that matters to you.
Chapter 4: Ways to Put Your Money Where Your Future Is
This chapter explores the myriad ways that consumers can use their green to keep the world clean and compassionate. Chapter Four examines the power of the dollar and the ways in which we can drive the market with our demand for freely traded, recycled, low-impact, efficient, and responsibly manufactured products. This chapter provides descriptions of businesses and organizations that produce environmentally and socially conscious products as well as a list of resources for positively harnessing our spending power through the purchase of "greener" versions of everyday products. In addition, this chapter contains "Ways to Shop With Your Head and Your Heart Directory," which will include a guide to giving gifts of awareness, green products, and socially responsible investment firms.
Chapter 5: Ways to Love Your Mother
This chapter focuses on the importance of protecting Mother Earth and all of her babies, not just the human ones. This chapter includes sections on protecting endangered species, preventing pesticide use, protecting forests from further deforestation, and evaluating the implications of global warming, as well as suggesting measures to prevent further temperature increase. In addition, it explains how to become an efficiency expert by advocating for experimentation with alternative energy sources, as well as offering suggestions for adapting your home, automobile, and business in order to better utilize limited resources such as water, fuel, and electricity.
Chapter 6: Ways to Travel and Live Lightly All Over the Earth
Exploring the world in which we live is a vital part of understanding the Earth and all of its inhabitants. Our travel and daily explorations can easily be spent in socially and environmentally responsible and sensitive ways. In addition to reaffirming the importance of efficiency and renewable, sustainable resources, this chapter examines innovative travel ideas, offers a directory of eco-friendly vacations and lodges, and includes suggestions and resources for decreasing your environmental footprint, whether your travel takes you to the ends of the earth or just to the other end of your apartment.
Chapter 7: Ways to Throw (or Attend!) a Party with a Purpose
Every big commitment deserves to be commemorated with a party, and a party is a great place to raise awareness about a cause in which you believe. This chapter offers step-by-step directions for planning all sorts of events, from a small, invite-only benefit party, to an elegant organic wedding. In addition, it profiles charity events and consciousness-raising festivals that you can attend, as well as ways to find or throw the perfect low-impact/high consciousness charity bash.
Chapter 8: Ways to Eat What You Want Without Eating THAT!
This chapter begins with an expose on the chemicals that we unwittingly consume along with our delicious meals. In addition to the toxins in food, this chapter examines the devastating effects of overgrazing and non-sustainable farming practices and offers ways to consume and produce food grown in a low-impact way. This chapter is not strictly pro-vegetarian, but rather, offers information that enables readers to consume all kinds of food more responsibly
Chapter 9: Ways to Put the Human in Humanitarian
This chapter includes ways of adopting causes, organizations, animals, and/or children - all with the aim of helping someone or something in need, while simultaneously offering you ways to make a direct connection with the causes in which you most strongly believe. With much of the world's population suffering from poverty, lack of adequate health care and/or education, there are many creative ways to feed a hungry world and to advocate for and invest in a better future for all.
Chapter 10: Ways to Turn Your Passion Into Promise
This chapter shows you how to take your interests to the next level by turning them into your vocation. This chapter serves as the professional's guide to changing the world and includes "success stories" about teachers, doctors, lawyers, fund managers, artists, and filmmakers who are already making a difference within their professions. This chapter is aimed at anyone who is passionate about a certain field and wants to make a difference, not just earn a living. It includes compelling and emotional true stories from people who are changing the world by using some of the ways suggested throughout the book.