讓生命更美好:34件你應該現在去做的小事

Help an entrepreneur with a Kiva donation.
1. 通過Kiva捐助幫助一名企業家。
Volunteer your services with a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or other charity organization.
2. 到流浪所、流動廚房等其他的慈善組織去做義工。
Donate money, food, or others goods to charity.
3. 給慈善組織捐錢、食物或其他的東西。

Bake cookies or brownies and share with a neighbor.
4. 做一些小點心或巧克力餅乾，並與鄰居分享。
Put your favorite recipes on a blog and share with the world.
5. 把你最好的食譜寫到博客裏面並與全世界共享
Volunteer your expertise (whatever it is) to the world, and give those services to anyone who needs them.
6. 向他人免費的提供專業幫助，並提供給那些需要的人。

Give step-by-step instructions for doing something valuable you know how to do, online, for all to read.
7. 對於那些你知道該如何做的有價值的事在網上提供一步一步的指示，並讓所有人都能讀到。
Give your books away to friends or charities.
8. 把你讀過的書送給朋友或慈善機構。
Start a community garden in your neighborhood, or contribute to an existing one.
9. 在你的街坊開放一個社區花園，或者想已有的花園貢獻一點個人力量。

Start a CSA, or become a member of one that exists.
10. 開始一個CSA(公共服務組織)，或者成爲一個該組織的成員。
Become a member of Freecycle, and participate.
11.成爲一個免費回收組織的成員並參加他們的活動。
Join or form, and participate in a cooperative (food, bikes, books, housing, more).
12. 參加團體的活動(如吃飯、騎車、看書以及住宿)

Give people a ride in your car. Carpool.
13.給別人搭便車的機會。
Let strangers use your car when you don’t need it.
14. 當你不用車的時候，給一個陌生人用你的車
Hold potlucks every week, rotating among friends/family.
15. 每週跟朋友或家人聚餐。

Look into co-housing.
16.研究合作租房。
If you own copyrighted work, uncopyright it.
17. 如果你有版權的作品，放棄這個版權。
Perform random acts of kindness.
18. 隨機做一些友好的事情。

When someone wants to repay you for something, ask them to pay it forward instead.
19. 當一個人爲了報答你而想做點什麼的時候，讓他們去喂更多的人做一些事。
Contribute code to Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS).
20. 爲免費和開源軟件社區(FOSS)做點貢獻。
Donate money to a small programmer who has created FOSS, or buy shareware.
21. 給那些創建FOSS的程序員捐點錢或出資購買這些共享軟件。

Clean up a park near you.
22.清理你附近的公園。
Sign up, participate, and contribute to bike sharing, car sharing, and other sharing organizations.
23. 參加一些共享自行車、汽車或其他東西的組織並做出自己的貢獻。
Help transform streets back into public spaces meant to be shared by everyone. (more)
24.嘗試幫助恢復街道成爲大家都能使用的公共區域。

If you’re in southern California, check out Neighborgoods.
25.如果你住在南加州，經常看看Neighborgoods。
Borrow and lend things in your neighborhood by using Share Some Sugar.
26. 通過Share Some Sugar(一個共享的網站)與你的鄰居們借還一些生活用品。
Barter via Craigslist. Or try u-exchange, trashbank, care to trade, trade a favor, or joe barter.
27.通過Craigslist(Craigslist是一個網上大型免費分類廣告網站)做一些交易，或者嘗試電子交易網站，快樂的去做交易。

Share your tips with others online or through a free ebook.
28. 在網上跟別人共享一些你的建議，或者通過免費的電子書。
Create great software and give it to the world for free.
29. 創造一些偉大的軟件然後讓全世界的人都可以免費使用它們。
Smile. Be compassionate in all human transactions.
30. 保持微笑。對所有的人類交往都保持熱情。

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. 向那些想自己創業的朋友投資，在幾年以內都別找人家還錢。
Make things, and give them to people.
32.嘗試製作一些小東西並送給別人。
Read to the blind, help the elderly, assist those with disabilities.
33. 給盲人讀書，幫助老人，以及那些有殘疾的人。
Start or contribute to a tool-lending library in your neighborhood.
34. 開始在你的街坊的工具借用館貢獻一些工具。