Act on climate!
Carbon tracking 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! 🙌
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 Teams. This means you can make a climate action for team you’re a part of!
We’ve also compiled in the main Decarbon team a list of dozens of actions for how to take personal action on climate change.
These actions 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 action in the Climate Actions tab, you can:
- Like it ❤️ - Other users will see the total likes for each action, so you can sort the action by what is collectively liked the most.
- Complete it ✅ - Some action are more general, some are more specific. Mark them complete whenever you feel like you’ve integrated the action into your routine in the way that works best for you.
- After completing an action, be sure to post a reflection and/or image for your teammates to see
- Snooze it 💤 - Not ready to tackle a specific action? You can snooze it until you are!
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