Talk & take part
A climate conversation that starts with a question
85 percent of EU citizens called climate change a serious problem in 2025, so open with a place and a date, not a position, and log one observation.
Try togetherLEARN SOMETHING. TRY SOMETHING.
What will you
explore together?
Start with a question from everyday life. Find a guide, compare your experiences and make room for a different point of view.
45 guides to explore
Nature nearby
A greener street for whom?
England's standard asks for 0.5 ha of greenspace within 200 m or 2 ha within 300 m. Walk the real route to the gate and check which tier your street meets.
Shared worksheetMoving & energy
A home energy observation without touching the controls
Great Britain's cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026 charges 54.83p a day plus 26.32p per kWh: 30 days cost £16.45 before any energy is used.
Shared worksheetFood & home
A recipe memory, with room for change
Record the portion a remembered dish was cooked for: serving too much caused 25% of the 4.4 million tonnes of edible food UK homes binned in 2022.
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A shared future without pretending to agree on everything
The EEA names five forms of participation, from informing to empowering: keep three lists and record which form your conversation actually was.
Shared worksheetKeep things in use
A shared shelf of things to borrow
Start with a dozen items, one named owner each and a four-item borrowing cap: the limit Library of Things uses matters more than the size of the shelf.
Shared worksheetFood & home
A week of less food waste, together
Count one recurring food for seven days: UK homes wasted 65 kg of edible food per person in 2022, worth £260, about £5 and 1.25 kg a week each.
Shared worksheetTalk & take part
After a community activity, ask what happened next
Big Garden Birdwatch 2026 published 9.4 million birds from over 650,000 people: ask for the output, its date and the body that owns the next step.
Shared worksheetMoving & energy
An energy-saving idea that depends on the building
Ofgem's Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 for a heat pump in England and Wales, or £9,000 off the gas grid until 31 March 2027 — the building decides which.
Choose a next stepKeep things in use
Before donating, check what is actually wanted
Oxfam GB publishes eight categories its shops cannot take, including mains electricals and phones. Send the branch a written list before loading the car.
Things to checkKeep things in use
Borrow, buy used, or use what you have?
Use what you have; borrow for a job once or twice a year; buy used above that. Library of Things caps a borrower at four Things at once from 22 locations.
Choose a next stepMoving & energy
Compare one everyday journey, door to door
NS puts Rotterdam Centraal to Amsterdam Zuid under 40 minutes, 25 minutes faster than the ordinary route — measure the walk and the wait to see if that gap holds.
Compare optionsFood & home
Compare two meal plans without judging the cook
Score both plans on the four reasons UK homes binned 4.4 million tonnes of edible food in 2022, from serving too much at 25% to label dates at 17%.
Compare optionsTalk & take part
From a neighbourhood observation to a council question
A UK public authority must answer an environmental information request within 20 working days: send one question with a place, a date and what you saw.
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Individual action and system change: where do they meet?
EU households were 26.0 percent of final energy in 2024 and 61.5 percent of that was space heating: the thermostat is yours, the wall is the owner's.
Shared worksheetNature nearby
Join a citizen-science project with realistic expectations
A FIT Count needs ten minutes, a 50 by 50 cm patch and 13°C in sun. Choose the scheme whose stated conditions you can actually meet, then practise it once.
Things to checkMoving & energy
Kilowatts and kilowatt-hours at the kitchen table
A 2 kW kettle for six minutes uses 0.2 kWh and costs 5.3p at Great Britain's 26.32p per kWh cap rate for October to December 2026.
Worked exampleFood & home
Make a shared kitchen experiment fair
Split the experiment into noticing, recording and deciding, and fix a stop date: serving too much was 25% of UK household edible food waste in 2022.
Shared worksheetMoving & energy
Map the trips we cannot easily change
People in England made 841 trips each in 2025 and 257 of them were shopping or commuting: map the requirement before asking anyone to travel differently.
Shared worksheetNature nearby
Notice nature from one accessible spot
A fixed spot is enough: BTO Garden BirdWatch has taken weekly lists from the same gardens since January 1995. State your boundary and your start and end times.
Try togetherNature nearby
One place, four seasons
Fix one tree and one definition: Nature's Calendar expects oak first leaf between early April and mid May and asks you to keep recording the same tree.
Shared worksheetFood & home
One shopping list for changing plans
Give each item an amount, a state and a time stamp: food not used in time was 39% of the 4.4 million tonnes UK homes binned in 2022, £6.86 billion.
Shared worksheetKeep things in use
Plan a clothes swap that works for everyone
Cap it at six garments each and name the leftovers' destination first. Europeans bought 6.0 kg of clothing per person in 2020 and wear a garment 7 or 8 times.
Things to checkNature nearby
Pollinators: observe before changing a space
Run the scheme's own count first: ten minutes, a 50 by 50 cm patch, 13°C in sun. Two counts on one patch beat a planting list bought before watching.
Shared worksheetKeep things in use
Prepare a repair question without taking anything apart
Send six fields: type, brand, age, what happened, what was tried and the assessment you want. They are the fields behind 441,068 logged repair attempts.
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Read a chart before debating its headline
EU municipal waste was 517 kg per person in 2024, yet Austria's 782 kg and Romania's 305 kg sit on the same chart: read unit, year, baseline and spread.
Worked exampleNature nearby
Read a local nature-restoration project together
Find the baseline, the dated works and the published check. The EU's 20% by 2030 target measures area under restoration measures, not habitats recovered.
Shared worksheetMoving & energy
Read an energy label together
Fridges, washing machines and dishwashers have carried the A to G label since 1 March 2021: fridges print kWh a year, the other two print kWh per 100 cycles.
Shared worksheetTalk & take part
Read an environmental claim together
From 27 September 2026 the EU bans unsupported generic claims such as climate friendly: split each claim into its promise and its specification.
Shared worksheetKeep things in use
Repairable, reusable, recyclable: different promises
Repairable becomes an obligation on 31 July 2026; reusable describes an owner's next step; recyclable needs a route, and under 1% of textiles ever get one.
Compare optionsKeep things in use
The story of an object worth keeping
Record arrival, current job, care, changes and what would keep it in use. Repair events see projectors averaging 28 years old and mobile phones under five.
Shared worksheetMoving & energy
Try a familiar trip using public transport together
NS wants travel assistance booked at least an hour ahead and a meeting point 15 minutes before departure; Great Britain accepts requests up to two hours before.
Things to checkNature nearby
Turn a local memory into a research question
Name the organism, place and two periods, then check the records. Oak first-leaf holdings run 1938 to 1947 and 1967 to 1999, so some memories meet a gap.
Shared worksheetKeep things in use
Visit a repair café with someone new
Ask the local organisers whether someone will be there for your item. Repair Café lists over 2,500 cafés, the help is free, and you carry the item yourself.
Things to checkFood & home
What a food-waste statistic actually counts
The EU's 130 kg per person in 2023 counts edible and inedible parts across five sectors; households are 53% of it, or 69 kg per inhabitant.
Worked exampleNature nearby
What changed on your street? A two-generation walk
Cities averaged 42% green cover but 3% publicly available green space in 2018. Keep three columns - remembered, observed, not known - and measure the green one.
Shared worksheetFood & home
What is different about preventing waste and composting?
Prevention is first in the EU food use and waste hierarchy; composting sits four steps lower under waste treatment, ahead only of energy recovery and disposal.
Try togetherTalk & take part
What would make an environmental activity worth joining?
Join the scheme that says what an hour produces: the Birdwatch asks one hour and published 9.4 million birds from over 650,000 people in 2026.
Choose a next stepFood & home
When pack sizes do not fit your household
Divide pack price by the amount you have a plan for: a 750 g pack at £3.75 costs £9.38 per kilogram used when only 400 g is eaten, against £5.00 on the shelf.
Worked exampleFood & home
Where does our household waste actually go?
Look up the service for the address, then the item: England sent 50.3% of local authority collected waste to incineration and 5.5% to landfill in 2024/25.
Shared worksheetTalk & take part
Who gets a say in an environmental decision?
A UK information request is answered in 20 working days, an EU consultation runs 12 weeks, a citizens' initiative needs 1 million signatures.
Compare optionsMoving & energy
Why a lower bill does not always mean less energy
The same 300 kWh costs £95.49 under Great Britain's July 2026 cap and £95.41 under the October cap: the unit rate rose, the standing charge fell.
Worked exampleNature nearby
Why a tidy patch and a healthy habitat are not the same question
Condition is assessed feature by feature against a site's objectives: 62% of UK A/SSSIs were favourable or recovering in 2025. Tidiness is not a criterion.
Choose a next stepKeep things in use
Why keeping a device longer is not one simple number
Up to 75% of a washing machine's impact is in use; a phone's is in manufacture. Keeping a 60 kg CO2e phone five years instead of two cuts 60% a year.
Compare optionsMoving & energy
Why two travel carbon estimates disagree
One 40 km trip is 6.96 kg CO2e for a car, 3.48 kg each shared, or 1.24 kg by rail under the UK's 2026 factors. Check what is counted before comparing.
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