Adams Media :: YES WE CAN! 365 Ways to Make America a Better Place

BOSTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- At this historic juncture in American history, ordinary citizens are inspired to embrace and be catalysts of change. Clearly, there is a lot that needs attention--the economy, the environment, the health care crisis, education, international relations -- but each seemingly huge issue can be broken down to a personal level -- making change possible from the ground up, one citizen at a time. YES WE CAN! 365 Ways to Make America a Better Place, published by Adams Media and authored by Massachusetts activist, Paula Munier offers a passionate and prescriptive call-to-action with simple things anyone can do (every day of the year) to make America a better place.

The collective voice of America has been heard and the campaign promise of change is one 66 million Obama supporters are eager to support. But how and where does the ordinary citizen start? Becoming involved is easier than most think. This book offers ideas anyone--anywhere--can use. For instance:

Help a laid-off worker find a new job
Save 10% of your salary
Invite a foreign student to live with you
Send a care package to a U.S. soldier in Iraq
Start a cottage industry on the side
Hire a local teenager to do your yard work or fix your computer
Adopt a starving wild horse from Nevada
Teach an unskilled laborer a marketable skill
Give a homeless person your winter coat
Grow a community garden with your neighbors

Paula Munier is a veteran journalist and editor. The former editor of Santa Cruz's Good Times Weekly and founding editor of Las Vegas Weekly, as a reporter she's covered everything from earthquakes and demonstrations to redevelopment and the environment. She's also the co-author of 101 Things You--and John McCain--Didn't Know about Sarah Palin and contributor to such anthologies as A Cup of Comfort for Military Families and My Teacher Is My Hero. Born in a red state to a military family and raised all over the world, she now lives on the South Shore with her family in the bluer-than-blue state of Massachusetts, where she campaigns for clean water as a member of the Pembroke Watershed Association.