Andrew C
31-Dec-07, 19:09
Go on, change one thing in 2008. This list was initially designed to be given out to folks linked with the Salvation Army so there are a couple of 'Christian' things in it...but don't let that put you off.
1. Give blood regularly
2. Thank your parents for everything that they do for you by doing a sponsored ‘slave for a day.' Send the money to a child support programme
3. Buy a copy of The Big Issue weekly
4. Become a mentor to a youth in your community
5. Buy locally grown & produced food
6. Don't use the oven to cook just one thing
7. Fill your kettle with the water you need
8. Turn your heating down by 1ºC
9. Use cotton tissues instead of disposable ones
10. Turn lights off when you leave a room
11. Exchange your cans for cash (http://www.thinkcans.com/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.thinkcans.com/))
12. When you need to travel for more than 1 hour, take the train
13. Don't put the heating on unless you have to
14. Get your house & boiler insulation checked
15. Reduce your garden/kitchen waste by composting
16. Decline plastic bags
17.Donate old toys or equipment to a charity shop
18. Take a quick shower instead of a bath
19. Mend clothes instead of buying new
20. Replace garden hose with a rain water butt
21. Use rechargeable batteries with solar powered recharges
22. Reuse old envelopes
23. If your school/workplace doesn't have a recycling scheme, suggest one
24. Make your own lunch instead of buying a packaged sandwich
25. Eat more fruit snacks, save packaging
26. Wear more cotton. Cotton absorbs CO2 as it grows.
27. Use a steamer to cook
28. Turn things off at the mains
29. If you're the only person travelling somewhere in a car, take public transport
30. Use both sides of a piece of paper
31. Wash up dishes by hand rather than by dishwasher
32. Use recycled loo roll
33. Use your local council's recycling services
34. Recycle your old mobile phone. The Salvation Army has a scheme.
35. Drink tap water instead of bottled
36. Turn tap off while brushing your teeth
37. Buy energy efficient products. The energy savings trust puts its logo on different types of appliances (www.est.org.uk)
38. Donateyour computers spare processing power to help predict future climate change. Visit www.bbc.co.uk/climatechaos (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/climatechaos)
39. Drive in the highest gear possible & avoid using air conditioning - save fuel
40. When travelling less than two miles, walk, bike or bus.
41. Plant trees
42. Write to your MP about Climate Change.
43. Put a Hippo in your cistern & save up to 15% on your total water use. Visit www.hippo-the-watersaver.com (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.hippo-the-watersaver.com/)to find out how
44. Switch to energy saving light bulbs.
45. Drive Slower. At 70 you use up to 30% more fuel than at 50
46. Hold a sale where people sell their old books & CDs & thereby recycle them
47. Go to www.mpsonline.org.uk (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/) to stop receiving junk mail
48. Give God more time OR/& invest in your loved ones
49. Read about Social Justice & let your new knowledge lead to action
50. Wear a charity wristband for an issue you feel strongly about
51. Read the Bible regularly. God's heart for the poor and passion for justice is mentioned over 800 times in the Bible
52. Pray regularly for the people trapped in poverty.
53. Give up watching one TV programme & use the time to either pray about or read more into current development issues
54. Be inspired & challenged by signing up to the Engage Text network at http://www.engagehivaids.com/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.engagehivaids.com/)
55. Show solidarity with the poor by fasting
56. Buy gifts from special gift catologues supporting developing communities
57. Save up all your loose change donate it to a worthwhile charity
58. Buy a watershed bottle for £10 and give family clean, safe water for life
59. Make FAIRTRADE your habit & commit to buying FAIRTRADE foods
60. Buy products that reflect your values
61. Don't waste your money on things that you don't need.
62. Choose a charity or project to donate money to every month for a year
63. Combat exploitation by buying your next pair of pants from http://www.pantstopoverty.com/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.pantstopoverty.com/)
64. Change the life of a child by supporting a Salvation Army anti-trafficking project
65. Increase your charitable giving
66. Buy fair trade cards for those special occasions or make you own
67. Every time you treat yourself to a luxury item donate a percentage of the money spent to a charity
68. Find out about your banks ethical policy, and switch if they don't have one
69. Buy clothes that have been made in a safe & ethical environment
70. Commit to giving 0.7% of your income to a development organisation, & then write to the PM asking the government to do the same
71. Make a note of everything that you spend and split them up into needs and luxury.
72. Rather than impulsively buying luxuries, apply a 14 day window-shopping rule to find the best price. After 14 days ask yourself if you still need it
73. Think about whether you are giving enough to your church and to other organisations
74. Asking your clothing store how the workers who make their clothes are treated
75. Support a local charity shop by purchasing something you will use or give to a friend
76. Support MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.
77. Organise an information stand to raise awareness about a particular issue at your organisation.
78 Ask your teachers if you can lead/speak in a school assembly about a developmental issue
79. Stop the Traffik - Sign the declaration & add your voice to the global petition against the trafficking of people (http://www.stopthetraffik.org/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.stopthetraffik.org/))
80. Write a letter to your MP about an issue you feel passionately about & ask what they are doing about it
81. Raise money for the Watershed campaign by selling bottles of water to your friends
82. Write a letter to the PM telling him that you have not given up the fight to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY, & that you expect him not to either
83. Get involved at www.dosomethinggood.org.uk (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.dosomethinggood.org.uk/) & join with other people who want to live lives of justice in this world
84. Encourage your minister to preach on the issue of social justice
85. Write to local supermarket & ask them to stock fair traded products
86. Hold a FAIRTRADE stall to show people the different products on offer, & then encourage people to make the switch
87. Become FAIRTRADE at home
88. Sign up to Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org.uk/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/))
89. Take time to consider and use your vote
90. Find one issue you & a group of friends feel passionate about & write to your local government about it
91. Encourage your local football teams to use FAIRTRADE footballs
92. Speak out about a social justice project or international issue by holding a sponsored silence
93. Organise a children's fun day for local children, send entry fee to develompent programme
94. Encourage your organisations to use fair-trade products
95. See what the brands you buy say about you. Visit www.pressureworks.org/lifestyle (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.pressureworks.org/lifestyle)
96. Keep up to date with the news from all over the world at www.thepaperboy.org (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.thepaperboy.org/)
97. Start a DSG group
98. Think of an issue that's important to you & sign to Google Alerts to receive daily emails
99. Put a reminder in your phone asking yourself how many of these actions you have taken
100. Give a copy of this list to your friends
1. Give blood regularly
2. Thank your parents for everything that they do for you by doing a sponsored ‘slave for a day.' Send the money to a child support programme
3. Buy a copy of The Big Issue weekly
4. Become a mentor to a youth in your community
5. Buy locally grown & produced food
6. Don't use the oven to cook just one thing
7. Fill your kettle with the water you need
8. Turn your heating down by 1ºC
9. Use cotton tissues instead of disposable ones
10. Turn lights off when you leave a room
11. Exchange your cans for cash (http://www.thinkcans.com/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.thinkcans.com/))
12. When you need to travel for more than 1 hour, take the train
13. Don't put the heating on unless you have to
14. Get your house & boiler insulation checked
15. Reduce your garden/kitchen waste by composting
16. Decline plastic bags
17.Donate old toys or equipment to a charity shop
18. Take a quick shower instead of a bath
19. Mend clothes instead of buying new
20. Replace garden hose with a rain water butt
21. Use rechargeable batteries with solar powered recharges
22. Reuse old envelopes
23. If your school/workplace doesn't have a recycling scheme, suggest one
24. Make your own lunch instead of buying a packaged sandwich
25. Eat more fruit snacks, save packaging
26. Wear more cotton. Cotton absorbs CO2 as it grows.
27. Use a steamer to cook
28. Turn things off at the mains
29. If you're the only person travelling somewhere in a car, take public transport
30. Use both sides of a piece of paper
31. Wash up dishes by hand rather than by dishwasher
32. Use recycled loo roll
33. Use your local council's recycling services
34. Recycle your old mobile phone. The Salvation Army has a scheme.
35. Drink tap water instead of bottled
36. Turn tap off while brushing your teeth
37. Buy energy efficient products. The energy savings trust puts its logo on different types of appliances (www.est.org.uk)
38. Donateyour computers spare processing power to help predict future climate change. Visit www.bbc.co.uk/climatechaos (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/climatechaos)
39. Drive in the highest gear possible & avoid using air conditioning - save fuel
40. When travelling less than two miles, walk, bike or bus.
41. Plant trees
42. Write to your MP about Climate Change.
43. Put a Hippo in your cistern & save up to 15% on your total water use. Visit www.hippo-the-watersaver.com (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.hippo-the-watersaver.com/)to find out how
44. Switch to energy saving light bulbs.
45. Drive Slower. At 70 you use up to 30% more fuel than at 50
46. Hold a sale where people sell their old books & CDs & thereby recycle them
47. Go to www.mpsonline.org.uk (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/) to stop receiving junk mail
48. Give God more time OR/& invest in your loved ones
49. Read about Social Justice & let your new knowledge lead to action
50. Wear a charity wristband for an issue you feel strongly about
51. Read the Bible regularly. God's heart for the poor and passion for justice is mentioned over 800 times in the Bible
52. Pray regularly for the people trapped in poverty.
53. Give up watching one TV programme & use the time to either pray about or read more into current development issues
54. Be inspired & challenged by signing up to the Engage Text network at http://www.engagehivaids.com/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.engagehivaids.com/)
55. Show solidarity with the poor by fasting
56. Buy gifts from special gift catologues supporting developing communities
57. Save up all your loose change donate it to a worthwhile charity
58. Buy a watershed bottle for £10 and give family clean, safe water for life
59. Make FAIRTRADE your habit & commit to buying FAIRTRADE foods
60. Buy products that reflect your values
61. Don't waste your money on things that you don't need.
62. Choose a charity or project to donate money to every month for a year
63. Combat exploitation by buying your next pair of pants from http://www.pantstopoverty.com/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.pantstopoverty.com/)
64. Change the life of a child by supporting a Salvation Army anti-trafficking project
65. Increase your charitable giving
66. Buy fair trade cards for those special occasions or make you own
67. Every time you treat yourself to a luxury item donate a percentage of the money spent to a charity
68. Find out about your banks ethical policy, and switch if they don't have one
69. Buy clothes that have been made in a safe & ethical environment
70. Commit to giving 0.7% of your income to a development organisation, & then write to the PM asking the government to do the same
71. Make a note of everything that you spend and split them up into needs and luxury.
72. Rather than impulsively buying luxuries, apply a 14 day window-shopping rule to find the best price. After 14 days ask yourself if you still need it
73. Think about whether you are giving enough to your church and to other organisations
74. Asking your clothing store how the workers who make their clothes are treated
75. Support a local charity shop by purchasing something you will use or give to a friend
76. Support MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.
77. Organise an information stand to raise awareness about a particular issue at your organisation.
78 Ask your teachers if you can lead/speak in a school assembly about a developmental issue
79. Stop the Traffik - Sign the declaration & add your voice to the global petition against the trafficking of people (http://www.stopthetraffik.org/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.stopthetraffik.org/))
80. Write a letter to your MP about an issue you feel passionately about & ask what they are doing about it
81. Raise money for the Watershed campaign by selling bottles of water to your friends
82. Write a letter to the PM telling him that you have not given up the fight to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY, & that you expect him not to either
83. Get involved at www.dosomethinggood.org.uk (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.dosomethinggood.org.uk/) & join with other people who want to live lives of justice in this world
84. Encourage your minister to preach on the issue of social justice
85. Write to local supermarket & ask them to stock fair traded products
86. Hold a FAIRTRADE stall to show people the different products on offer, & then encourage people to make the switch
87. Become FAIRTRADE at home
88. Sign up to Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org.uk/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/))
89. Take time to consider and use your vote
90. Find one issue you & a group of friends feel passionate about & write to your local government about it
91. Encourage your local football teams to use FAIRTRADE footballs
92. Speak out about a social justice project or international issue by holding a sponsored silence
93. Organise a children's fun day for local children, send entry fee to develompent programme
94. Encourage your organisations to use fair-trade products
95. See what the brands you buy say about you. Visit www.pressureworks.org/lifestyle (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.pressureworks.org/lifestyle)
96. Keep up to date with the news from all over the world at www.thepaperboy.org (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.thepaperboy.org/)
97. Start a DSG group
98. Think of an issue that's important to you & sign to Google Alerts to receive daily emails
99. Put a reminder in your phone asking yourself how many of these actions you have taken
100. Give a copy of this list to your friends