Do you really want to change the world? If the answer is YES, then this book shows you how.

Ethical consumerism is now big business. But leading a sustainable and truly radical life encompasses a whole variety of things that challenge the mainstream. This book shows how we can make real changes to the way we live. In simple steps, it describes how you can create sustainable and equitable ways of living that can help transform not just your own life, but the culture around you.

The book weaves together analysis, stories and experiences. It combines in-depth analytical chapters followed by easy to follow 'How to Guides' with practical ideas for change. Taken together, these small steps can move us towards taking back control of our lives from governments and corporations.

Trapese is a Popular Education collective based in the UK. Since 2004 they have been using participatory education to critically inform, inspire action and build sustainable alternatives to the current economic system. Do It Yourself (Pluto, 2007) is their first book.

Glossary

Introduction: Do it yourself

1. Why the party's over

2. How to get off the grid

3. Why do it without leaders

4. How to make decisions ourselves

5. Why society is making us sick

6. How to manage our own health

7. Why we've still got a lot to learn

8. How to inspire change through learning

9. Why we are what we eat

10. How to set up community gardens

11. Why we need cultural activism

12. How to prank, play and subvert the system

13. Why we have to reclaim the commons

14. How to set up autonomous spaces

15. Why we need to reclaim the media

16. How to communicate beyond TV

17. Why we need to take direct action

18. How to build active campaigns

Conclusions: Changing our world

Index