Teach your
Granny to Text
The big book of small actions to change the world is out now.Written by children, for children it’s a technicolour ‘how to’ for doing things. And changing things.
How can you change the world?
We Are What We Do is a new kind of movement inspiring people to change the world one small action at a time.Our philosophy is simple:
small actions x lots of people = big change
We have the 130 small things that you can do to change really big things. Pick an action, track it here, and see how it all adds up.
Teach your
The big book of small actions to change the world is out now.Written by children, for children it’s a technicolour ‘how to’ for doing things. And changing things.
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Select an action.
From brushing your teeth to walking your folks, from smiling in streets to telling more jokes. Scroll our list of simple, everyday superactions.
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Choose one of these...
Action 106: Test your teacherAction 77: Show empathy
Action 68: Try a job swap
Action 07: Plant a tree
Action 32: Do something you think you are unable to do
See all actions
Actions changing the world now:
21237 guys and gals are tracking actions on the site.Who’s completed the most actions today?
01 Reverse Raccoon has completed 8 actions 51 times!
02 Julianne has completed 12 actions 12 times!
03 cheryll has completed 3 actions 6 times!
Check out today's league table
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