Today is Change the World Day

Today's a big day for our wonderful friends at Chronicle Books www.chroniclebooks.com in San Francisco who as you know are publishing Change the World for Ten Bucks. To mark the launch of the book and to demonstrate their commitment to it and to WAWWD, they've declared today Change the World Day and the whole organisation (a couple of hundred people) has been given the day off to volunteer in local projects. Some of the organisations they'll be supporting include Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, City Slicker Farms, Habitat for Humanity, Beach Clean-up in the Presidio, Alemany Farms, 826 Valencia, the San Francisco Zoo, Opportunity Impact, and The Lighthouse. And AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is sending 30 members from its Pacific Region campus in Sacramento to serve alongside the Chronicle volunteers. This is a fantastic gesture of support and we're so excited to think about the combined impact of all these individual volunteering days and of course it's amazing that they have taken the project on in such a wholehearted way.

Here's hoping this becomes an annual national event and that loads of other organisations sign up to it - you never know what might happen. Hope you have a great day guys and look forward to sharing some of your stories on the blog.

And speaking of blogs, there's been some really lovely coverage from the States - here's a sample. Please let us know if you spot anything else! Thanks.

http://news.bookweb.org/6779.html
http://thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt3PE4SJw5k.