Earth Hero: Climate Change

Ever since downloading EarthHero, I’ve been absolutely captivated by the app. I’m an activist who is currently and actively working on an urban agriculture initiative within my community/city of 64,000+ and EarthHero has inspired me even more on action planning for my initiative. From the near limitless articles and the seemingly endless ‘Actions,’ this app has everything that someone could need when either creating change themselves or someone wanting to limit their personal emissions. I even wanted to add my own ‘Action’ to EarthHero (which they let you do by emailing them, they’ll consider it!) but my idea was too generalized which I agreed to their assessment. They instead asked me if I wanted to turn my idea into an article and I decided to do so. Amazing folks behind an amazing app! Thank you for reading this review and thank you to EarthHero and their team for creating and maintaining such an amazing app!

So many great action ideas! Feels good to keep working through them and learn new things.

Used the app on and off for a couple years now and love all of the improvements. Great app ❤️

I downloaded Earth Hero a few weeks ago, and I must say so far I’m impressed. After taking a simple test and updating the app on climate actions I already do, it gave me a detailed bar chart with my emissions, recommended numerous lifestyle changes from food to travel, and has a newsletter to stay informed. The app is organized in levels you can climb up if you reduce emissions, and you can set reminders to make small lifestyle changes. Overall the app is designed well for someone to be able to reach their goals of climate lifestyle changes, and I highly recommended downloading it.

I’ve been monitoring my greenhouse gas emissions in Excel and keeping an action plan in my head (and forgetting). This app makes it much easier!

They have great tips that are super thorough. They also link so many orgs you can get involved in with a great summary of each org and links to each. Makes climate action feel approachable and not daunting.

I love how interactive this app is. It’s great that I can customize my reminders for different goals. I also love how much information and educational resources are provided for each positive action.

I was looking for something to help me figure out how to do my part to address climate change. This app gave me a great place to start and track my goals. It’s got a mix of action ideas for both system change and personal carbon footprint which I love. Focusing on just personal emissions isn’t going to fix this mess. The list of climate organizations is really helpful. I have no idea how many there are. Great app for our environment and climate. Thanks Earth Hero!

I love this app. Though I was already doing a great many of the suggested actions, I was able to reduce my footprint much more. It helped me feel empowered and clear on my climate change impact. I love the graphics and interface. I’ve recommended this app. My only disappointment is that they do not mention peatlands conservation and going peat-free in the garden. Peatlands store enormous amounts of carbon —more than all the worlds forests—and release it when disturbed. The greenwashing out there can be confusing. There is a large movement in the UK to go peat-free. I submitted a proposal for this and did a great deal of research, and even wrote in again many months later. It has never been added as an action a year or more later, and I’ve become saddened by this. In general, new actions don’t seem to get added very often. Many of the actions also seem urban-, youth- and able-body oriented. That’s ok, but those just don’t apply.

I am addicted to reducing my footprint. I have barely had this, but it’s really fun to do. I’m already on level two you should really download this!