'We live in peculiar times. More communication devices than ever before connect us, yet
more people live alone. We want to belong to communities but our cities can be very lonely
places. We buy things - more and more things - with more and more money; but they don't
make us happy - life satisfaction was higher with post war rationing in the 1940s. We feel
things very deeply and we want to do something, but what?'
There is at least one answer to that question this September. Not so much a book as a
movement, Change the World for Ten Bucks is a sharply designed package of information,
wit and inspiration for Australians. Change the World celebrates 50 simple everyday actions
that everyone can do to make the world a better place. They are deceptively simple things
that don't require masses of time, money, even conscience to achieve. This is a book about
involvement, a call to action beyond a credit card payment or direct debit donation.