The Better World Handbook

the better world handbook. small changes that make a big difference. Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett johnson. revised and updated edition.

SMALL CHANGES THAT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE
the better world HANDBOOK

*Ellis Jones - Ross Haenfler - Brett Johnson

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ACTIVIST TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!

If you care deeply about the state of the world but don't have the time or energy to devote your whole life to a good cause, then this completely updated and expanded edition of The Better World Handbook is for you. A perennial best-seller, it's the essential guide for busy people who care about making the world a better place but don't know exactly where to begin.

The Better World Handbook shows you how to build a world based on these Seven Foundations:

- Economic Fairness

- Social Justice

- Comprehensive Peace

- Simple Living

- Ecological Sustainability

- Revitalized Community

- Deep Democracy

The Better World Handbook equips you to live out your values by providing a wide range of simple but effective actions that you can take every day - actions that focus on:

Money - Shopping - Food - Personal Life

Friends and Family - Community - Religion & Spirituality

Home - Work - Media - Politics

Transportation - Travel - Organizations

The Better World Handbook details the global challenges we face, provides solutions to those challenges, and includes a wide range of follow-up resources that cover everything from fair trade coffee to alternative news sources to hybrid cars.

Making the world a better place just got a whole lot easier.

The Better World Handbook gives us a step-by-step "blueprint" for creating conscious global citizens. It's a manual for better living that you will find yourself using over and over again.

Kevin Danaher, Cofounder, Global Exchange; author of Ten Reasons for Abolishing the World Bank and the IMF

Wow! What an incredible resource! What people really want out of life is to make a difference and have some fun - and this book tells you how to do both at the same time.

Cecile Andrews, author, The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life and Slow is Beautiful .. an impressive resource for people who want their everyday actions to reflect caring and compassion for the environment and others. Buy it, share it, or get it from the library.

But most of all, use it to change our world for the better.

Betsy Taylor, Executive Director, Center for a New American Dream An excellent look at issues we face and concrete actions - small and large - we can take to address them.

Pail Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time