The 365 Ways Blog

Michael Norton is author of "365 Ways to Change the World", which provides an issue for each day of the year, interesting facts, inspiring case studies of people doing things to address the issue and ideas for action. Originally published in the UK, versions with local content have been published in Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and the USA. To find out more visit our website: www.365act.com

01 April 2010

Put a Penny On

PennyOn is a simple solution to ensuring every person in the world has what they need – enough to eat, a safe place to sleep, e...

Walk to Work

Here’s just one little thing you can do to address global warming, reduce air pollution and improve your fitness – that’s walk to work. If n...

15 March 2010

Are you mentally ill?

Mental illness seems to be increasing… at least according to the American Psychiatric Association which keeps finding new conditions which i...

Go to sleep

A survey, carried out for the BBC suggests that many children are not getting enough sleep. of 1,083 children aged between 9 and 11 across t...

08 February 2010

Invest in me

In a recent discussion among a select group of social investors and entrepreneurs a strange question was presented. If an investor offered y...

24 December 2009

Lending to microentrepreneurs

The Internet is an ideal medium for linking people to people and aggregating their support to achieve something specific. There is a new ter...

21 December 2009

Time to eat your dog?

Should owning a Great Dane make you as much of an eco-outcast as an SUV driver? Yes it should, say Robert and Brenda Vale, two architects at...

Twixtmas

A new campaign has been launched called Twixtmas, which hopes to improve the world a little bit. And if lots of people take part, it will m...

15 April 2009

Pitch your ideas for changing the world

Social entrepreneurs take note. Here’s an opportunity to get your entrepreneurial ideas to a wider audience. As part of it’s 25th Anniversar...

27 February 2009

Celebrating Sarah-ness

Nearly every year, two friends called Sarah at America’s Burning Man festival, host a party for all the Sarahs there. A Sarah Party , wher...

Guerrilla tactics for sustainable transport

1. Organise a Parking Meter Party Pay for a bay. The going rate on the meter for as long as you want to party. Place a model car in the s...

15 January 2009

Stop the runway; join the airplot

Plans for building a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport have been approved by the UK government. There is widespread opposition to th...

12 January 2009

Change the world at change.org

The new US President used two catchphrases in his speeches “Change” and “Yes we can” . Change.org is a social action network where you can: ...

Football can change the world

Football is the world’s most popular sport. It can be used in many ways to help create a better world. All sorts of projects have been set u...

12 September 2008

It’s all a lot of rubbish

I’ve read two books about rubbish recently: Rubbish: the archaeology of garbage by William and Rathje and Cullen Murphy, published in 1982,...

29 July 2008

Pests or partners?

Here is why we need to conserve invertebrates: “If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equil...

20 July 2008

What do you think you are eating?

More and more of us are eating pre-prepared food. This could be a pre-prepared complete meal or food which has been chilled or frozen; it co...

01 July 2008

Support the Bhopal victims

The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 was an industrial disaster caused by the accidental release of 40 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate from a Union Carbi...

11 June 2008

Dialogue in the dark

The idea is really very simple. In completely a darkened room, blind people lead small groups of guests through an exhibition in which every...

06 June 2008

Words, words, words

Words not only enable us to communicate, they also define the society we live in. New words and phrases arise when we have something new to ...

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