Act on climate!

is great, but how do we actually lower our carbon footprints and, more importantly, stop climate change? This is really freakin’ hard.

In Decarbon, we call anything that helps in this effort a “climate action”. Pretty simple!

Now, climate actions will often directly lower your personal carbon footprint. So the more you participate, the more you’ll see your footprint shrink in your carbon budget.

That said, climate action involves so much more than just lowering your personal footprint!

Some of the climate actions suggested by Decarbon might not directly tie to your own footprint, but are nevertheless just as if not more important for the bigger mission of curbing climate change. For example, writing a letter to our government representatives won’t lower our footprints immediately but is a great way to demand bigger change.

Decarbon provides two ways for you to take action and reduce your emissions:

Monthly collabs
Personal actions

Monthly collabs

We believe that informed group action is the most impactful way to act on climate — and it’s way more fun. That’s what our monthly collabs facilitate!

Collab = collaboration 😊

See past collabs on our blog.

How collabs work

Decarbon’s monthly collabs bring everyone in the app together to work towards the same climate action goal.

These collabs are hosted by a different leader in the climate movement each month. They could be scientists, teachers, activists, entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders… anyone who’s doing something about climate change! 🙌

The monthly collab section of Decarbon

Personal actions

Outside of our monthly collabs, it’s helpful to periodically reflect on different:

Climate actions to live more sustainably (lowering your personal footprint)
Climate actions to engage your community in living more sustainably (pushing for systemic change)

All climate actions are created and then filterable by user

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Teams

Decarbon’s team has compiled a list of dozens of actions for how to take personal action on climate change.

These include both recommendations for how to lower your personal footprint and also how to engage your community. They also range from super simple (”Walk more!”) to more complicated (”Promote bike safety!”).

For each tip in the Climate Actions tab, you can:

Like it ❤️ - Other Decarbon users will see the total likes for each tip, so you can sort the tips by what we collectively like best.
Complete it ✅ - Some tips are more general, some are more specific. Mark them complete whenever you feel like you’ve integrated the tip into your routine in the way that works best for you.
Snooze it 💤 - Not ready to tackle a specific tip? You can snooze it until you are!
Share feedback 💬 - We’d love your feedback on any ways to improve tips. Maybe a potential organization we can partner with, maybe we need to fix a typo.

Everyone is also welcome to suggest new climate actions to us!