Join a 12-week peer-based journey to explore The PolyOpportunity’s ten essential meta-skills—from Imagination and Courage to Time and Resilience—designed to help you thrive in a life-centred world. Created by the House of Beautiful Business, the Acosta Institute, and the Holon Institute, the program blends expert guidance, immersive content, and shared experiences to shift how you think, lead, and relate.
Facilitate a workshop that brings together diverse stakeholders to co-create a shared vision of the future. This collaborative process fosters alignment, collective imagination, and a roadmap for collective action.
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Arrange for your organisation or community group to receive training in relational resilience, focusing on building emotional and social capacity to navigate climate challenges together. Organisations like The Resilience Project offer programmes that equip individuals to lead with empathy and inclusivity in climate justice efforts. Their approach combines climate psychology, community-led models, and the lived experiences of young changemakers to foster collective resilience.
Host an event that brings together local community members, artists, and climate activists to showcase stories through various mediums—poetry, visual art, short films, and more. Highlight the diverse voices that are often underrepresented in mainstream climate conversations. This event can be a space for reflection, learning, and a call to action.
Universities are influential in shaping society's values and priorities. Lobby your institution to establish a Climate Futures Institute or similar body focused on long-term thinking, regenerative practices, and inclusive, culturally grounded responses to the climate crisis. These institutes can bridge science, Indigenous knowledge, and creative disciplines.
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Integrate systems thinking into your organisation’s strategic planning or governance processes. By considering interconnectedness, feedback loops, and long-term impacts, you can build a more resilient, adaptive organisation ready to address complex challenges. Check out resources by thought leader’s like Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer for inspiration on how to get started.
Participate in educational programmes that explore the methodologies of speculative design and futures studies. These courses equip you with tools to envision and design alternative futures, fostering creativity and critical thinking.
Collaborate with your community group or organisation to develop a shared values charter or decision-making process. This participatory approach ensures that diverse voices are heard and that collective actions align with agreed-upon principles, fostering a culture of mutual respect and shared responsibility. Examples like the BeClimate Hub's Value Chart and Climate Salad's Community Charter can serve as inspiration for structuring your own charter.
Use climate storytelling toolkits and resources to craft engaging and impactful narratives for screenwriting, content creation or campaigns focused on climate action. These resources will guide you in developing stories that inspire cultural change, foster engagement, and raise awareness on climate issues.
Join a workshop or gathering based on the Work That Reconnects, a transformational body of practices developed by Joanna Macy. Rooted in deep ecology, systems thinking, and spiritual traditions, it helps participants move through grief, reconnect with the web of life, and find renewed energy for action.
Get to grips with the foundations of systems thinking through an online or in-person course. These programs range from beginner-friendly intros to deep dives into systems change, futures thinking, and complexity science.
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Back powerful, justice-centred climate journalism and storytelling by donating to Grist. Your support helps fund initiatives like Imagine 2200, their acclaimed climate fiction program that uplifts visionary stories of climate justice and possibility.
Support organisations that centre healing justice, cultural reclamation, and community-led care. For instance, Healing Justice Ldn in the UK builds community-led health and healing systems, working with communities surviving state and systemic oppression to create futures rooted in dignity, safety, and belonging.
The Plurality University Network(U+) is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to advancing futures literacy and speculative design. By becoming a member, you gain access to a vibrant community engaged in exploring alternative futures and developing innovative solutions to global challenges. Individual membership is free, however you can make a voluntary donation.
Follow key systems thinking advocates and organisations on platforms like LinkedIn, and Instagram. Stay informed about the latest insights, tools, and discussions around systems change. Engaging with these thought leaders helps broaden your understanding and connect with a global community dedicated to transformation.
Check out the UK Government's Futures Toolkit, a comprehensive resource designed to help you develop policies and strategies that are robust in the face of an uncertain future. This toolkit introduces 12 different futures thinking tools, including visioning techniques, scenario planning, and strategic foresight, providing guidance on how to implement them effectively.
Learn to navigate conflict as a pathway to deeper connection and cultural healing. These resources offer tools for accountability, transformative justice, and collective repair:
Dive into this research and reflections from the systems change community, exploring how narrative plays a central role in shaping meaning, influencing behaviours, and driving societal transformation.
Podcasts are an accessible way to learn from thought leaders, activists, and changemakers who are challenging dominant narratives and creating space for new perspectives. Listen to these conversations to deepen your understanding of how worldviews are shifting around the world.
Read a book that deepens your understanding of the interconnectedness of our world and how systemic change can create lasting solutions.
A growing movement of architects, builders, and researchers is reimagining construction with natural materials and low-carbon techniques. From earth and straw to timber and lime, these innovators demonstrate how building can be both regenerative and beautiful. By following and sharing their work on social media, you help spread awareness of architecture as a tool for climate resilience and community empowerment.
Participatory design puts communities at the heart of shaping their environments. The Laufen Manifesto offers a bold call to action for more inclusive, just, and sustainable design practices. Use it as a starting point to understand how architecture and urbanism can respond to real social needs—and how you can contribute.
Use the Doughnut Economics City Portrait Method to explore how your city can balance meeting social needs with respecting planetary boundaries. This tool allows you to map out areas of improvement, identify where your city is thriving, and where it needs to evolve. You can apply this method in schools, councils, or local groups to create a shared vision for a more sustainable and equitable community. Doughnut Economics Action Lab offers a detailed guide to help you get started.
For inspiration on how a city portrait can lead to positive change, check out Civic Square in Birmingham—an incredible community organization transforming their neighbourhood through Doughnut Economics.
Reclaim a neglected urban space and turn it into a green haven for your community. Pocket parks not only provide a peaceful retreat but also enhance the local environment and create spaces for social connection. Organize your neighbors, work with local councils, and introduce elements like greenery and seating. WSP’s guide for Islington Council offers detailed steps for creating these parks—though it’s geared towards local authorities, much of it can be used by changemakers. For additional support, organizations like MyParkScotland can assist with fundraising for park projects.
Car-free zones and car-free days offer more than just temporary relief from traffic—they highlight the potential of vibrant, people-centered streets. By organizing a pop-up car-free zone, you can showcase how streets can be transformed into lively, pedestrian-friendly spaces. These events not only reduce pollution and promote sustainable transportation but also help build support for policies that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists. Use City Changers' bite-sized guide to get started and make a lasting impact on your community.
Transition Towns are a global movement of communities working together to make their cities and towns more resilient and sustainable. Get involved with local initiatives by using the Transition Network’s map to find groups near you. Attend their next event to take part in hands-on, community-led climate action and help make your neighborhood more sustainable.
MAKE is a hands-on learning platform that builds accessible construction skills for a world in climate, biodiversity, and housing crisis. From working with wood and clay to hemp, lime, and local forestry, these workshops are led by expert builders and material specialists from across the UK. Open to architects, builders, and anyone curious about regenerative building, MAKE offers a grounded introduction to low-carbon construction.
Donate to organisations working to make urban life greener, fairer, and more liveable—like Living Streets Scotland, Greenspace Scotland, or Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA). These groups champion better public spaces, green infrastructure, and people-friendly streets.
Learn how the idea of urban commons—shared spaces shaped and sustained by communities—can guide sustainable placemaking, empower local governance, and enhance urban well-being. In this article, urban researcher Rohinton Emmanuel explores how commons thinking can influence future urban research and practice.
Discover how 15-minute cities can slash emissions, reduce car dependency, and build more resilient, people-friendly neighbourhoods. In this TED Talk, Carlos Moreno explains how designing for proximity—where everything you need is just a short walk or bike ride away—can transform cities into hubs of sustainability and wellbeing.
Explore how architecture can support a regenerative future by learning about sustainable building materials. Material Reform by Material Cultures offers insights into low-carbon construction, local materials, and craft-led design. The book challenges extractive building norms and inspires a more circular, place-based approach. Start here to rethink how we build.
The Restart Project helps people learn how to repair their broken electronics, and rethink how they consume them in the first place. Why not host one yourself? The Restart Project offers guides and support to help you get started.
Help others discover circular businesses, reuse hubs, and repair cafés in your region by creating a public-facing resource map or directory. This could be digital (e.g. Google Maps, Notion, or a simple webpage) or physical (e.g. an illustrated pocket map, poster, zine, or community noticeboard). Get inspired by ReLondon’s Circular Economy Directory, Circular Economy Yorkshire or Green Guide Budapest.
Bring circular thinking into your projects by using free, practical tools designed to help you rethink products, services, and systems. Circulab offers resources like the Circular Canvas, Partner Map, and Value Chain Canvas—designed to spark collaboration and systems thinking across your organisation or community. A great starting point for designing solutions that are regenerative by design.
Encourage your organisation to sign up to a platform like Warp It, Rheaply or Green Standards, which help workplaces and universities redistribute surplus furniture, equipment, and office supplies. Instead of sending usable items to landfill, these platforms make it easy to circulate them internally or share with other organisations — reducing waste, saving money, and supporting a more circular way of working.
Designed for professionals and organisations, this course helps teams move beyond surface-level sustainability strategies and into actionable, systemic change. Developed by Circulab’s leadership, the program guides participants through real-world challenges — from analysing value chains to designing circular business models — with practical tools and methods used by clients like Orange and Lancôme. Ideal for those looking to embed circular thinking across strategy, design, and operations.
Email or message your favourite brands or local shops to ask how they manage repairs, returns, and unsold stock. By showing customer interest in circularity, you help push businesses to reduce waste and design for reuse. For guidance on initiating these conversations, refer to the Circular Economy Toolkit for Small Businesses, a resource offering strategies for businesses to adopt circular practices.
Give goods a second life and support the circular economy by donating or buying from creative reuse centres like The Edinburgh Remakery, Tayside Re-users, or the Stirling Reuse Hub. These community spaces keep materials in use, reduce waste, and make quality items affordable for everyone.
Explore methods, stories, and tools for applying circular design in your work. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO’s Circular Design Guide offers a rich, practical introduction, while Circulab’s five foundational principles help ground your understanding in systems thinking and regenerative strategies.
Reading is an essential step in any design journey. This book list brings together everything from visually inspiring coffee-table reads to in-depth explorations of circular principles and practice — offering ideas, insights, and inspiration to guide your path into circular design.
Storytelling and local ecological knowledge are powerful tools for nurturing cultures that value and protect ocean ecosystems. From coastal traditions and oral histories to community-held knowledge of tides, fisheries, and marine life — these stories carry deep insight and connection. Share stories from your area on social media, or by starting a podcast, writing a blog or article, creating a zine, or even publishing a book!
A seaweed-themed supper or tasting night is a fun, informal way to introduce others to ocean-friendly food and spark conversations about regenerative climate solutions. Bring your community together to share a delicious, climate-positive meal using locally sourced, sustainable seaweed — and explore seaweed’s potential to nourish both people and planet.
Industry is a major driver of ocean degradation — but it doesn’t have to be. The Blue Standard is a certification helping businesses across hospitality, events, music, sport, retail, and more to reduce plastic use and protect marine ecosystems. It covers both operations and product/packaging, making it the first cross-industry benchmark for ocean-friendly business. Encourage your organisation to get Blue Verified and be part of the solution.
Push for seafood sourcing policies that prioritise sustainability, advocate for reduced ocean plastic use, and encourage education partnerships with marine NGOs. By promoting these actions, you can align your workplace’s practices with marine protection, making a tangible impact on ocean health through responsible institutional choices.
Attending a plastic clean-up at your local beach or river is not only an act of ocean protection, but it's also a great way to meet other like-minded people committed to making a difference. These events provide an opportunity to get involved in a community of action-takers who are working together toward a cleaner planet. Being part of a community of changemakers can be one of the most rewarding aspects of taking climate action. Find a cleanup using the links below:
Pitch a team beach clean to your workplace. It’s a great team-building activity that gets everyone outdoors, boosts morale, and makes a real impact by removing plastic waste from the coastline. The Marine Conservation Society offers bookable corporate clean-up days — suggest it to your sustainability lead or HR team!
Bottom trawling is one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices, responsible for more than 90% of bycatch in the EU. Shockingly, it’s still allowed in many of Europe’s marine protected areas (MPAs). Urge EU lawmakers to ban bottom trawling in MPAs and properly enforce ocean protections.
Call on governments to uphold their promise to protect at least 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030. Protected marine areas (MPAs) are essential refuges for biodiversity, helping marine life recover, store carbon, and build resilience to climate change. Over 190 countries have committed to this global “30x30” goal – your voice can help hold them to it.
Our diets directly impact ocean health, and by reducing demand for overfished species, we can help marine ecosystems recover. Consider committing to one of these options, ranked from easiest to most impactful:
Donate to Sea Shepherd, a global marine conservation organization protecting ocean wildlife. Your contribution supports their direct-action campaigns to combat illegal fishing, poaching, and habitat destruction. With your help, Sea Shepherd can continue to patrol international waters, disrupt harmful activities, and advocate for stronger protection of marine ecosystems.
Uncover the potential of seaweed as a powerful climate and sustainability solution. This UN-backed manifesto lays out a global vision for a responsible seaweed industry that restores ecosystems, supports livelihoods, and tackles major challenges like hunger, pollution, and climate change. Whether you're curious about ocean solutions or looking for bold ideas that can reshape the future, it’s an inspiring and informative read.
Parley for the Oceans is a global network dedicated to ocean protection through innovation and education. Their Ocean School Online offers free courses on the major threats facing our oceans, including plastic pollution, overfishing, and climate change. Courses like Ocean Climate Action, Precious Plastics Academy or Marine Biodiversity provide the knowledge and tools needed to take impactful action for ocean conservation.
Explore how seaweed could transform our food systems, clean our oceans, and help tackle climate change. Vincent Doumeizel’s book makes a compelling case for seaweed as a driver of global solutions. Read it solo, with a book club, or gift it to someone working in food, farming, or ocean science.
If you own an acre of land or more, think about partnering with a rewilding organisation to bring biodiversity and natural processes back into your land. Alternatively, simply let wildflowers springs and allow patches of the land to grow wild as they please.
Map a wild path through your neighbourhood—link back gardens, street corners, and park fringes to create urban wildways. Rewild My Street’s step-by-step tools can help you turn overlooked spaces into a shared habitat network.
Even small city spaces can be transformed into wild havens. Overlooked spots can become thriving ecosystems once again with only a little help—whether it’s as simple as throwing wildflower "seed bombs" in post-industrial land, or joining a project to reclaim a vacant lot as a volunteer. Use this practical guide by How to Rewild to identify opportunities in your neighbourhood, or follow the seed bomb recipe below to become a guerrilla gardener!
Help track biodiversity near you using platforms like iNaturalist or Zooniverse. Your sightings support research and policymaking while building public understanding of the need for rewilding and nature protection.
Ask your workplace to offset its carbon emissions through organisations like Mossy Earth, which offer rewilding-based offsets that restore ecosystems, boost biodiversity, and support local communities. Choosing nature-led carbon projects allows your business to meaningfully contribute to long-term, holistic climate solutions.
Help make Scotland the world’s first rewilding nation. By signing the charter, you’ll back a bold vision for restoring nature at scale—bringing back missing species, expanding wild habitats, and supporting community-led rewilding. This campaign from Rewilding Britain and Scottish Rewilding Alliance aims to influence national policy and public support.
Get inspired by using Rewilding Britain’s interactive project map to see where rewilding is happening nearby. Discover who’s rewilding across Britain, from the coast of Cornwall right up to the Highlands of Scotland, and how they’re doing it.
Books can spark imagination and action. Whether you’re new to rewilding or deep into its debates, these titles explore how we reconnect people and ecosystems:
Discover the Affric Highlands project by Trees for Life, the UK’s largest rewilding initiative. Spanning over 500,000 acres, it aims to restore native forests, peatlands, and wildlife across the Scottish Highlands—all led by local communities. It’s a bold vision for a wilder, more resilient future that puts people and nature at the heart of the landscape.
Schools and campuses often have underused green spaces perfect for rewilding. Transforming a lawn into a pollinator patch or creating wildlife corridors not only boosts biodiversity but also builds collective ownership and ecological awareness. With more space and community involvement, these projects can have outsized impact. Resources from Rewild My Street make it easy to start.
Lawns consume a lot of water and are essentially a monoculture. Let flowers take over, allow a patch to grow wild, add native plants, or create a mini pond to provide vital habitat for birds and amphibians. These practical guides from How to Rewild and Rewilding Britain will help you reimagine your garden as a thriving pocket of wild nature.
Trees for Life is a rewilding charity working to restore the Caledonian Forest and its wildlife in the Scottish Highlands. Your donation supports native tree planting, red squirrel reintroduction, and long-term plans to reintroduce lynx—helping revive a lost ecosystem and protect biodiversity for future generations.
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The Territory is an immersive documentary that follows the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people in their fight against deforestation by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon. It provides a rare look into the determination of land defenders, the motivations of those encroaching on their territory, and the grave dangers involved in protecting their ancestral home.
Host an event within your community in support of the work of frontline defenders across the world. Many organisations and collectives of frontline defenders and indigenous peoples, such as Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) would be happy to collaborate on your event. Be sure to platform the voices and stories of the peoples you want to support.
Artivism Network have an amazing selection of workshops on how to combine artistic practice with social and climate justice activism. You can choose from Artivist 101, Climate Justice Artivism, Tools for Disruption and many more!
Frontline Defenders is a charity providing support to at-risk human rights defenders who legitimately promote open and just civil society throughout the world. By donating you can support their efforts, and 100% of your donation goes directly to providing emergency protection grants, providing training on digital and physical security, or mobilising international support for human rights defenders at risk.
We Will be Jaguars by Amazon Frontlines co-founders, Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson, is an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest. By buying the book you can support their organisation as well as connect with the stories of frontline defenders.
Learn about the role of community organising in the climate movement and how local groups can influence systemic change. This guide from The Solutions Project provides a great breakdown of what community organising is, why its effective and how you can apply it to the climate crisis.
Global Witness have an interactive summary of their annual Defenders report. Read it to learn more about individuals, communities and organisations bravely taking a stand to defend human rights, their land, and our environment. The end of the report includes their recommendations to better protect environmental defenders.
Start your own social enterprise dedicated to addressing environmental and social challenges or, if you already have a business, sign up for the Social Enterprise certification. You can also integrate the "triple bottom line" into your Articles of Association!
Advocate for more transparent data collection on your company’s impact, focusing on environmental and social metrics equally. Suggest the implementation of regular feedback mechanisms like surveys, suggestion boxes, or interviews to collect insights from often-forgotten stakeholders, e.g. communities in far-flung countries affected by your supply chain. Propose making data instantly accessible through dashboards that report progress in real-time. Promote the communication of all this data in actionable, easy-to-digest impact reports that can be shared.
Greenpeace is opening up its workshop in Islington (London) to grassroots groups working on racial and social justice, as well as defending the environment. Use the workshop to design, plan, and build your campaigns and changemaking projects. Participants can also apply online for funding from Greenpeace's Movement Support Fund to support their projects!
Get involved in your local community and advocate for projects that promote social flourishing. We recommend you get started by looking at Transition Towns — an inspiring network committed to practical changemaking in towns all over the world!
Review your personal investment portfolio and pension plan to ensure that the ethos of the companies invested in aligns with your values. Consider placing your money into companies and pension providers that invest sustainably, avoiding damage to the earth and society.
People vulnerable to climate change all over the world can be protected only if agreements ensuring their rights are in place — national or international protection for dignified resettlement, access to essential services, and recognition of climate-induced displacement as a humanitarian issue. By supporting the work of the Environmental Justice Foundation (UK) and Climate Refugees (USA), you contribute to global solidarity and justice for those displaced by climate change.
Help support the vitality of your local economy by donating to projects that enhance community resilience in your area, or by becoming their customer. Consider contributing to efforts such as community gardens, farmers' markets, renewable energy cooperatives, or social enterprises.
• Community energy projects across the UK: map
• Social enterprises across the UK: directory
• Community gardens across the UK: map
• Local businesses across the UK: directory
Exercise your democratic right in the upcoming UK elections by voting for political candidates who have a credible plan for net zero. Look for candidates committed to both ambitious climate targets, and a just transition for all members of society.
We've collated three resources exploring the role of financial investment as a catalyst for the just transition — the key ingredient needed to help pro-social ventures and good business practices reach the scale we need.
• This podcast covers key topics such as inequality as a systemic risk, and the necessity of long-term thinking
• This paper includes a number of inspiring case studies from organisations taking pro-social action both voluntarily and in response to new regulation
• This guide explains how to use capital as a catalyst for a just transition, using real-life examples
Explore the "Just Transition Principles" by the Climate Justice Alliance. This guide outlines strategies for shifting from an extractive economy to a regenerative one, via community-led solutions, equitable resource distribution, and sustainable economic practices.
Explore Greenpeace's platform on environmental justice, which covers key ideas such as the just transition, community empowerment, loss and damage, and sacrifice zones. Learn about the intersection of racism and the environmental crisis and discover the vital voices fighting for justice in this space.
Time outdoors builds connection with nature that reminds us of what we have to lose, and what we stand to gain from building a more just, green, and sustainable future. Spend time in your local nature and reflect on your relationship with it.
Attend the Open Education events on the Slow Factory. The Slow Factory mission is to redesign socially and environmentally harmful systems through educational programming, regenerative design, and materials innovation. The events cover a wide range of topics, including regenerative economics, fashion and beauty politics, and collective healing.
Advocate for policies that create better living conditions for current and future generations. If you’re interested in governance and policymaking then you can submit to the World Future Council Future Policy Award. The award celebrates successful forward-thinking policies and has links to IGO's such as UN agencies and the OECD, so the potential for real-world adoption is high.
Imagine the future by using this guide created by Greenpeace. Movements often focus on what current harmful systems need to be dismantled; the other side of the coin is thinking about what should be built in its place. The guide has five lessons on how you can imagine and then create a future worth fighting for.
Join and become a member of Rob Hopkin’s Patreon community to have access to all episodes of the podcast ‘From What if to What Next’ and ‘the Ministry of the Imagination’. These podcasts help build a shared imagination of what is possible, and then ground ideas in practical steps guided by experts. The topics are shaped by listener questions and you can also take part in Q&A events.
Subscribe, follow and share media organisations focused on climate justice, that are organised by marginalised people or that highlight marginalised voices. They will widen your perspective and help you advocate for a more just and equitable world.
Watch this video on why “Biomimicry is More Than Good Design” by Our Changing Climate. It argues for the power of looking to nature for inspiration when thinking about our problems. Whether that is in design, politics, or in our relationships
Watch this TED talk on “Imagining the Next Seven Generations”. It speaks of the Seven Generation Principle which states that in every decision, you should consider the impact it will have on the next seven generations. The principle encourages long-term thinking and sustainable practices that will benefit future generations.
Support organisations dreaming big, trying to shift culture, and educating people. Many of these organisations are grassroots, and rely on the donations and support of people who find their content beneficial.
Read this introduction on radical imagination to understand how you can use it to envision a more just and sustainable world. This article is published by the Everyday Activism Network to help people imagine a better future.
Read a book that expands your understanding of how to address the climate crisis and what solutions are possible.
Young people are often under-represented in decision-making, resulting in policies and practices that are unsupportive of young people’s needs and interests.
Become one of Youthtopia’s voices. If you have a passion for communicating about the climate crisis, apply to become one of Youthtopia’s official speakers. Represent young people at events, conferences, or summits.
Watch a documentary on the youth climate movement. Follow the rise of the young people taking action on the streets to demand people think long-term and consider their future.
Are you under 25 and have a track record of creating change in the world? Youthtopia’s Circle of Youth is the community for you then! You can apply to join for free and multiply your impact by sharing your knowledge with other youth.
Discover where you can fit into the climate movement. There are lots of different ways to contribute to the climate movement - protesting or recycling are not the only options! Think about what topics you’re passionate about, what skills you have, and what areas you want to contribute to.
Organise a youth-led climate action event. If you can’t see any climate action near you to join, start your own! Organising collective action is an empowering way to create meaningful change.
