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DO you smile every day, have a bath with your partner or drink from mugs rather than plastic cups?
If so, you are making the world a better place. A new book claims there are at least 50 ways to make the planet a better place - for less than a fiver. And the writer spreading the word on how to improve our lives is Eugenie Harvey.
Eugenie wrote the book after becoming frustrated and unfulfilled in her job as a financial PR.
Here's how you can make a difference:
1 WRITE to someone who inspired you. Praising someone for doing something great will act to encourage them to do it more. Eugenie's provides a postcard to do just that.
2 GIVE your number to five people in your street -- being friendly to your neighbours creates a better atmosphere. Helpfully the book provides five "I'm your neighbour" slips.
3 CHEW less gum. We spend about pounds 150 million a year cleaning chewing gum off
the streets in the UK. A point illustrated in the book with two pages stuck together by gum.
4 PLANT a Christmas tree - they suck in carbon dioxide and pump out oxygen. A shocking 33 foot
ball pitches of trees are cut down every minute worldwide. The book includes a packet of five Scots Pine seeds that will grow you a Christmas tree for 2012.
5 LEARN to be friendly in a foreign language - our schools are home to over 300 languages. Eugenie's book helpfully provides a table listing greetings in several different languages.
6 REFUSE plastic bags wherever possible. Every person in the UK uses up to 134 plastic bags every year, a total of eight billion bags that sit idle in huge land-fill sites.
7 READ a story to a child - remember how your imagination was captivated as a kid. It's your turn to pass on that feeling.
8 FIT at least one energy-saving light bulb. If every British household fitted just three bulbs, enough energy would be saved to supply the entire country's urban lighting.
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