100 CLIMATE ACTIONS

100 climate actions, ranging from individual daily activities to large-scale advocacy, were gathered in collaboration with local residents in Hackney and experts, including climate scientists, a climate economist, council staff, designers, artists, and young students. Some may seem to contradict ideologically, while others share similar approaches, mapping the complexity of possible routes we can take in collectively deciding our future.

Each climate action card visualises the potential impact when carried out individually and collectively. Quantifiable actions show their carbon savings at the individual level, among a hundred people, and at the borough scale, while non-quantifiable actions, such as advocacy, draw on scientific research to convey their scale and impact when undertaken collectively. Each card includes a quote from a climate scientist highlighting its broader environmental significance.

Explore each climate action by scrolling through the list below. Hover over an action or click to expand it for more details.

With contribution from:
Dr Alice Garvey at Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
Climate Team at Hackney Council
Catherine Chong at C.L.E.A.R
Rachel Bronstein at Design Council
Alexie Sommer at Design Declares
Usman Haque
Students at Gainsborough Primary School
Dr Peter Walton at Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
Dr Andy Yuille at Lancaster University

100 Climate Actions was first presented through 100 recyclable cardboard stools forming the installation Harvesting Climate Action. The stools were later deconstructed at the Low Carbon Banquet For A Hundred, where 100 members of the public each “harvested” a stool to sit on, learn about, and embody a specific climate action while feasting together at the finale of Hackney’s Low Carbon Chinatown.

During the banquet, participants voted on the actions they believed would generate the greatest environmental impact, as well as those they were already practicing in their everyday lives. The collective results revealed tensions between perceived and actual impact, highlighting the complexity of understanding, and collectively responding to the climate crisis.

At the end of the evening, guests took their stools home as both a material trace of the experience and a reminder of the climate actions they had embodied, individually and collectively.