list 100 things to improve the world and do them

8. Leave anonymous notes around for people to find
When people find something special and unexpected and kind, you can usually expect a smile. Every time someone smiles, someone sees them and can’t help but smile, and so on. Little ripples, et cetera.
Hence, notes. This is inspired mainly by Operation Beautiful
which is an awesome project dedicated to making sure everyone knows they’re beautiful.
I’ve written 65 notes so far on index cards and I’ll be leaving them everywhere I go throughout this week.

9. Smile
The reason for this was posted above. Smiles are contagious, and the simple act of smiling slightly lifts the mood, so whenever I smile around other people I improve my own and everyone else’s mood.

10. Volunteer
This one I’m already doing, but I want to make sure that I keep on doing it. So many people seem to be unaware how many resources would be unavailable without volunteers. At the moment I volunteer four hours a week at a library, but I’ll be moving soon so I’ll have to find somewhere new to volunteer.

11. Scatter native wildflower seeds wherever I go
I have a packet of wildflower seeds native to my area. I want to start taking them along with me and scattering them in bleak places. It’ll help the environment and cheer people up to boot!

1. Inch closer to flexetarianism
A loose sort of flexetarianism has been my goal for a while. Not a big DON’T EAT MEAT NEVER NEVER thing – I’m just not cut out for that – more of a relaxed attempt to be increasingly less reliant on meat and thereby lower my impact.

2. Cut up old unwearable clothes and reconstruct them into new, wearable clothes
As much an I-can’t-afford-new-clothes thing as it is a save-the-world thing.

3. Participate in Buy Nothing Day

4. Update my blog more
I’m bad about updating things. I have things to say, I need to go ahead and say them.

5. Do some guerilla art

6. Tell people about things
I want to try to find something interesting or important every day or so, and then proceed to tell people about it.

7. Get better at juggling and see if I can juggle at children’s hospitals and the like

It’s a schoolproject and I’m thinking what I can do to improve the world

I want to do everything in my power to make the world a better place.

I know this is controversial… But I have never had a baby fever. I don’t have any reasons to want children of my own except wanting to perhaps raise a child (adoption is an option there) and my curiousity to see who lovely an offspring my husband’s genes would produce.

Most of my life have been solidly in the “don’t know if I’ll have any” camp. The social pressure around me to have a child is growing every year. The population of the planet is also growing every year. Since I was born, it has gone from 4.3 billion to almost 6.8 billion. In 20 years it will, at this rate, be 9 billion. Considering that I’m now much ok with the thought of not having any children of my own.

I’m not saying no-one should have children, just that currently the population is exploding and I don’t really need to add more.

6. start an amnesty international chapter at my school.
7. send last year’s model UN resolution to senegalese officials.
8. stop eating all dairy products.
9. organize an awareness movement for united nations day.
10. start recycling more.

1. start writting letters to local government officials.
2. stop eating meat.
3. pick up trash outside.
4. ‘click to donate’ daily.
5. tutor other students.

alright, so i often complain about politics, but i can’t honestly complain if i haven’t done anything to change things. i’ve got the no meat thing down, except for the ocasional parent-forced serving of dolphin safe tuna. (why dolphin safe tuna, but not tuna safe tuna? i’ve never understood that.) i pick up trash walking around lots, but i need to start carrying a small bag aroung with me so i have no excuse not to. i’m doing pretty good at the click to donate, and i’ve tried to get other people to do it. note: care2 is great, you can set up a profile and track your influence. making it your home page helps a lot if you tend to forget. and tutoring, because i meant to do it last year and have no excuse not to this year.

One reason why spam email is so common is that people do not know what steps they can take to keep their computers from taken over by spammers. When possible, I try to inform people of the measures they can easily take to protect their computers, their data and themselves online.

I spend some time almost daily helping Linux (at the moment Ubuntu/Kubuntu) newbies with their computer problems. Given that it’s pro-bono work, I only spend max 30min on a problem and stop if it is too much hassle or if it is a company problem and they should honestly be paying someone to do it. But I think it helps some people be happier about their computer. :)

Apart from buying food when I’m hungry, I rarely buy things the first time I see them. Waiting a bit lets me think about whether the purchase makes sense for me (and for the environment), or whether it is just something I want on a whim.

I have also noticed that when the seller is rushing me into the decision, there is usually something fishy going on. Good things will usually be buyable tomorrow too, and if not, the sales person is not hesitant to give me their contact info so that I can get back to them once I have decided.