By E.B. Boyd

For every real-life maverick out there, there are a thousand dreamers, people with great ideas about how to make the world a better place but unsure of whether they should try to make them real. If only there were a handbook to show them the way. Now there is. Would-be world-changer: Meet your very own “How-To” guide.

A new buzz book — WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century — hits the shelves next week. I just ordered it because I want to change the world, as long as it's easy.

Here's a phrase that does't exactly roll off the tongue: "sustainable luxury lifestyle." It's the topic of an interesting post on the blog WorldChanging, by the CEO of Vivavi, a company that makes high-end sustainably designed furniture (using materials like water hyacinth fiber, recycled glass, and Forest Stewardship Council certified wood). The Vivavi CEO, Josh Dorfman, who is also the host of LIME Radio's "The Lazy Environmentalist," wrote of some people's concern "that marketplace environmentalism is only possible for celebrities and the super wealthy."