让生命更美好:34件你应该现在去做的小事
Help an entrepreneur with a Kiva donation.
1. 通过Kiva捐助帮助一名企业家。
Volunteer your services with a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or other charity organization.
2. 到流浪所、流动厨房等其他的慈善组织去做义工。
Donate money, food, or others goods to charity.
3. 给慈善组织捐钱、食物或其他的东西。
Bake cookies or brownies and share with a neighbor.
4. 做一些小点心或巧克力饼干，并与邻居分享。
Put your favorite recipes on a blog and share with the world.
5. 把你最好的食谱写到博客里面并与全世界共享
Volunteer your expertise (whatever it is) to the world, and give those services to anyone who needs them.
6. 向他人免费的提供专业帮助，并提供给那些需要的人。
Give step-by-step instructions for doing something valuable you know how to do, online, for all to read.
7. 对于那些你知道该如何做的有价值的事在网上提供一步一步的指示，并让所有人都能读到。
Give your books away to friends or charities.
8. 把你读过的书送给朋友或慈善机构。
Start a community garden in your neighborhood, or contribute to an existing one.
9. 在你的街坊开放一个社区花园，或者想已有的花园贡献一点个人力量。
Start a CSA, or become a member of one that exists.
10. 开始一个CSA(公共服务组织)，或者成为一个该组织的成员。
Become a member of Freecycle, and participate.
11.成为一个免费回收组织的成员并参加他们的活动。
Join or form, and participate in a cooperative (food, bikes, books, housing, more).
12. 参加团体的活动(如吃饭、骑车、看书以及住宿)
Give people a ride in your car. Carpool.
13.给别人搭便车的机会。
Let strangers use your car when you don’t need it.
14. 当你不用车的时候，给一个陌生人用你的车
Hold potlucks every week, rotating among friends/family.
15. 每周跟朋友或家人聚餐。
Look into co-housing.
16.研究合作租房。
If you own copyrighted work, uncopyright it.
17. 如果你有版权的作品，放弃这个版权。
Perform random acts of kindness.
18. 随机做一些友好的事情。
When someone wants to repay you for something, ask them to pay it forward instead.
19. 当一个人为了报答你而想做点什么的时候，让他们去喂更多的人做一些事。
Contribute code to Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS).
20. 为免费和开源软件社区(FOSS)做点贡献。
Donate money to a small programmer who has created FOSS, or buy shareware.
21. 给那些创建FOSS的程序员捐点钱或出资购买这些共享软件。
Clean up a park near you.
22.清理你附近的公园。
Sign up, participate, and contribute to bike sharing, car sharing, and other sharing organizations.
23. 参加一些共享自行车、汽车或其他东西的组织并做出自己的贡献。
Help transform streets back into public spaces meant to be shared by everyone. (more)
24.尝试帮助恢复街道成为大家都能使用的公共区域。
If you’re in southern California, check out Neighborgoods.
25.如果你住在南加州，经常看看Neighborgoods。
Borrow and lend things in your neighborhood by using Share Some Sugar.
26. 通过Share Some Sugar(一个共享的网站)与你的邻居们借还一些生活用品。
Barter via Craigslist. Or try u-exchange, trashbank, care to trade, trade a favor, or joe barter.
27.通过Craigslist(Craigslist是一个网上大型免费分类广告网站)做一些交易，或者尝试电子交易网站，快乐的去做交易。
Share your tips with others online or through a free ebook.
28. 在网上跟别人共享一些你的建议，或者通过免费的电子书。
Create great software and give it to the world for free.
29. 创造一些伟大的软件然后让全世界的人都可以免费使用它们。
Smile. Be compassionate in all human transactions.
30. 保持微笑。对所有的人类交往都保持热情。
Invest in a friend who wants to start her own business. Don’t ask for the money back for at least a few years.
31. 向那些想自己创业的朋友投资，在几年以内都别找人家还钱。
Make things, and give them to people.
32.尝试制作一些小东西并送给别人。
Read to the blind, help the elderly, assist those with disabilities.
33. 给盲人读书，帮助老人，以及那些有残疾的人。
Start or contribute to a tool-lending library in your neighborhood.
34. 开始在你的街坊的工具借用馆贡献一些工具。
