The actions
Hour-scale, UK-flavoured, light green. The hour is a slot, not a stopwatch — a ten-minute switch plus starting your neighbour on theirs is a fine hour. Every adaptation action leaves the commons better or demand lower, not just one household safer.
Money & energy
270mm is the magic number. Most lofts are short of it.
One trip to the ironmonger, one satisfying fit, one warmer room.
For many people, the single biggest climate lever they own.
An hour of nerdy fun with your own data.
No purchase required — the hour is finding out.
Quotes commit you to nothing and teach you everything.
Your bank lends your money somewhere. An hour decides where.
Not all '100% renewable' claims are equal — an hour sorts the real thing from the certificates.
The famous free gas-saver: most combi boilers ship set too hot.
Garden & home resilience
Quietly one of the most valuable hours in this library.
The garden that survives August is designed in April — and it's a prettier garden.
This summer's rain, stored for next summer's drought.
Cooler in heatwaves, drier in downpours, better-looking all year.
External shading beats internal every time.
The laziest hour in this library: don't mow, and tell people why.
A shade tree is twenty-year air-conditioning for the whole street.
Your water company will post you free kit. Really.
Civic
Solar farms and cycle lanes drown in objections. Supportive comments are rare — and genuinely read.
Own a small piece of the answer, close to home.
Councillors hear from astonishingly few residents. You'll be memorable.
Institutions move when a known face asks.
One specific ask, one personal paragraph, one request for a reply.
Social
Fifteen sunny minutes at a time — citizen science you can do with kids.
An hour watching the garden, counted into national science.
Low-carbon eating spreads by being delicious, not by being argued for.
Cycling to the shops is fun. The hour buys the fun.
You switched once. You can cause thirty switches.
Two or three friends, one question: what's the thing you've been meaning to do?
An hour on seat61.com is an hour of pure pleasure.
Autumn cosiness at its best: the toaster lives.
One fewer of everything — and you finally know your neighbours.