As awareness and understanding of the climate crisis have grown, we are continually bombarded with advice on cutting our own personal carbon footprint. You may have reconsidered your diet and the way you travel and shop, maybe you’ve made your home more energy-efficient or installed solar panels. While reducing our own impact is important and can have positive ripple effects, the focus on the individual has left many of us feeling insignificant and powerless to create the bigger changes needed to create a positive future. Talking about the climate crisis and individual actions with those around us can feel uncomfortable and create feelings of shame and division. So much has been focused on our power as consumers, that we have forgotten about our power as citizens and as communities. Our mission is to help individuals to rediscover that power and to use it to bring about positive change in their communities.

At our core is the belief that the intertwined issues of climate and social breakdown offer an enormous opportunity for a revolution in the way that we live our lives and the role of humans as part of nature. To make this change happen, we need people to demand it and, where possible, to take matters into their own hands. However, in societies where we are encouraged to act and think like individual consumers, this is a huge task. That’s why we are focusing on the idea of small and well-defined, closed micro-communities. We believe that this is essential to help us build the muscle of acting as citizens and as community members. By strengthening these communities, we are helping individuals to feel less isolated and to feel more empathy - critical tools for building a better future. By tapping into the power of our communities, we aim to empower individuals to take a more active role in our democracy and in shaping the world in which we live. As we grow and develop, we plan to nurture a community of communities and, in time, see the huge potential in this for creating more widespread and ambitious change.