Tool Box of some Resources for Creating Change
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)

This list is a work in progress and is not at all complete, and it is not organized in any specific order. Please email Kristin (kjoos@soc.ufl.edu) to add to this list.

These are just some suggestions & ideas to consider. There is no one “right” way of being... I just want to encourage you not to take things for granted... to challenge you to ask questions... and to resist doing something just because “that’s the way things have always been done.”

Be Aware & Active

• Think Critically
• Cultivate passion, creativity, and risk in your own life and in the lives of others.
  
• Support organizations, causes, and movements you believe in. (Give your time, talent, and/or money.)
• Volunteer
• http://www.dso.ufl.edu/cls/service/
• http://www.idealist.org/
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
• Speak up.
• Vote. Make the personal, political.
• Turn off your TV (or at least think critically as you watch it and consider what else you might do with those 28-35 hours/week)
  
• http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/
• http://www.tvturnoff.org/101.htm

 Be a conscious consumer

• Center for a New American Dream: http://www.newdream.org/    
• Ideal Bite offers bite-sized ideas for green living: http://www.idealbite.com/
• Online, find "green" and fairtrade products at: , http://www.greenpages.org, http://www.transfairusa.org/, http://store.globalexchange.org/, http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whatyoucando/gift_center, http://www.responsibleshopper.org
• Get informed about the corporations you're supporting through your purchases
• http://www.coopamerica.org/, http://www.corpwatch.org/. http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml, 
• http://www.behindthelabel.org/, http://www.nologo.org/, http://www.fairtradefederation.org/
• Instead of "big boxes", consider trying::
  
• Transportation: Walk, bike, bus, carpool… if you HAVE to buy a car, consider a hybrid with high MPG
• Eating out, choose local restaurants, not chains. Here is a list of local eateries (in Gainesville): www.nosoupforyou.com
• Groceries: Try local grocers & farmers markets... find one in your area ta the link below:
  
• Support sustainable, local, organics: http://www.localharvest.org/
  
• Coffee: buy fairtrade coffee at Sweetwater in Gainesville or find some in your local community
  
• Clothes: look for items that do not use sweatshop labor and who source organic fabrics like: www.americanapparel.net & http://www.patagonia.com
  
• Books: Shop locally, even when online, see: www.booksense.com, www.powells.com
• Cosmetics: Body Shop, Burts Bees, brands from natural foods stores
• Cleaning supplies: http://www.methodhome.com/
• Media (magazines, videos, etc.): if you feel like you are missing something by not reading your favorite magazine, read someone elses instead of buying a copy

Resources for Social Entrepreneurs

• For Youth interested in Social Entrepreneurship
• Ashoka's Youth Venture: http://www.genv.net/
  
• Definitions of Social Entrepreneurship:
• http://www.ashoka.org/fellows/social_entrepreneur.cfm
• http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
• General Links Related to SE
• http://www.socialedge.org
• http://www.ashoka.org
• http://www.howtochangetheworld.org
• http://www.skollfoundation.org
• http://www.changemakers.net/
• http://www.aworldconnected.org/subcategory.php/85.html
• http://innovatorz.org/
• http://www.netimpact.org
• The New Heroes
• http://www.pbs.org/newheroes
• http://www.thenewheroes.org
• NGOs
• http://www.idealist.org
• http://www.ngo.org/links/index.htm
• http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/ngo-databases.html
• http://www.unog.ch/80256EE60057E07D/(httpPages)/3101491B86487F6D80256EFC0061DFD9?OpenDocument