Encourage a friend outside the Generous community to do one or more of the actions or even to become a member themselves.

You can even copy and paste this text to do the job for you (if you’re not speaking to the person face-to-face – which is always the most Generous thing to do, by the way!)
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Dear ??

I thought you might be interested in the Generous online community http://generous.org.uk/ which I’m a member of.

Basically, it’s a rapidly growing crowd of people who think that if a lot of us begin to make small changes in the way we live, then together we will create a big change in favour of the planet and its people.

There’s now about two thousand of us signed up and every month we get emailed some suggested Generous Actions. The idea is to try and commit to taking on one or two – and then making them part of our everyday life.

Some are easy (takes five minutes to sign up online as an organ donor), some are more of a hassle (switching to an ethical bank, putting a plastic brick in your cistern to save water, starting to shop local and fair trade) and some are more challenging (cutting back on your car use, offsetting your airmiles, improving home energy efficiency).

Every time a Generous member commits to an action, it gets logged on the site – for example there’s now 517 people who have stopped taking carrier bags from shops, 452 who turn off the tap when cleaning their teeth and 377 who have unplugged their chargers to reduce their emissions.

If it sounds like your kind of thing (and I thought of you when I got to know about Generous!), you can read more about it here – http://portsmouth.generous.org.uk/about/

You can see all the current Generous Actions here – http://portsmouth.generous.org.uk/actions/

You can sign up for free here -http://portsmouth.generous.org.uk/apply/

Yours generously,

????? (your name, or one you like, here)

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