The climate crisis is so huge and overwhelming, it can be paralyzing to many of us. We all want to know that one thing that will really make the difference.

But guess what? There’s an app for that. A new app, dashboard.earth, aims to help individuals shake out of that paralysis, take meaningful climate actions – and get rewarded for it.  The app, which launched publicly about six months ago and is currently in beta, gamifies climate action and education, and was curated specifically for L.A. 

“I think at the end of the day, everybody wants to try and figure out what they can do on an individual level to make an impact either locally in their community or on the global scale,” said Kelly Shannon McNeill, associate director at the water conservation non-profit advocacy group Los Angeles Waterkeeper, which partnered with the developers to help design the app. “The goal for dashboard.earth is serving up bite-sized, really accessible, step-by-step actions that almost anybody could take regardless if they're a renter, a homeowner, etc.”