Amisha Ghadiali – Product information and consumer power

Amisha Ghadiali is a writer and sustainable fashion campaigner. In her What One Change response, Amisha advocates product information as a means of leveraging consumer power over governments and corporations, creating widespread social change.

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Mark Williamson – Happiness

Dr Mark Williamson is Director of Action for Happiness. In his response to the What One Change question Mark asks us to put happiness at the heart of how we lead our lives, and he describes the impact this can have on our politics, our personal lives, our working lives and our communities.

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Antonia Dixey – The importance of play

Antonia Dixey describes the role of play in the lives of both young people and adults, and the impact it has on decision-making, education and self development.

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Jon Yates – Everyone should have two friends who are different from them

Having different friends has a positive impact on well-being, responsibility and the contribution young people can make in society.

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Yasmine Ibrahim – education

Yasmine Ibrahim, from the American University in Cairo, puts forward education as the greatest catalyst for social change. Yasmine was speaking at the Salzburg Global Seminar.

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Amnesty International – global adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Amnesty International calls for global adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the one change that would have the biggest impact across the globe.

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Winning by sharing: why command-and-control organisations aren’t working – Léon Benjamin

Social media practitioner Léon Benjamin describes the unsuitability of our command-and-control model of organisational as “the biggest story of the 21st century”, and how collaborative, network-centric models offer us a happier and healthier future, and greater levels of productivity.

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Compel all employers to publish pay ratios and achieve greater income equality – Bill Kerry

Equality Trust co-founder Bill Kerry calls for all companies to publish their ‘top-to-bottom’ pay ratios – and asks the question “are people there to serve the economy or is the economy there to serve people?”

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Adopt a 20mph speed limit in residential areas – Danny Dorling

Adopting a default speed limit of 20mph in residential areas is a successful and growing road safety campaign, but it’s also a driver for widespread social progress. Let Danny Dorling explain.

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Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy – Avy Joseph

Avy Joseph introduces Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy – a psychotherapy based on the idea that people experience emotional and behavioural problems mainly because they hold self defeating, unhealthy beliefs. In his response, Avy describes the positive impact it offers for common societal issues.

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