Cool The Globe vs Leaf Reading Club

Cool The Globe began with a simple question: What can I do about climate change? Today, citizens from across the world are making small changes to their lifestyle and are tracking and reducing their CO2 emissions through the Cool The Globe platform. We believe real change happens when individuals unite to take meaningful climate action. How Cool The Globe Works 1. Choose Your Climate Actions Make impactful, climate-conscious choices in your: Travel Food habits Energy usage Use of Materials Waste management Lifestyle at home or work The app offers hundreds of simple actions to reduce your carbon footprint and calculates the emissions you avoided with each one. 2. Personal Dashboard Set monthly and yearly carbon reduction targets based on your country. Log your actions in the app, track your avoided emissions, and measure your progress against these goals. 3. Global Dashboard "Can one individual make a difference?" Yes! When many individuals act together, our collective impact is extraordinary. The Global Dashboard displays the total avoided emissions of all Cool The Globe users, inspiring us to create a greener planet together. 4. Community Dashboard for Organizations Organizations can join Cool The Globe to lead their sustainability efforts: Build an in-app community and track the collective impact of members. Organize team and individual competitions to engage everyone. Share updates, align goals, and drive sustainability using the Community Board. App Features Fight Climate Change: Reduce your own greenhouse gas emissions through actionable steps. Participate in Challenges: Join global and local challenges to make sustainability a fun and shared experience. One Action a Day: Commit to daily actions that add up to big change. Offset Your Emissions: Purchase Carbon Credits to offset unavoidable emissions (like flights or big events). Sponsor trees in the Cool The Globe Forest to neutralize your carbon footprint. Be Part of the Cool The Globe Movement 1. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Set and achieve personal carbon reduction targets. 2. Spread the Word: Inspire others to join and contribute to the global mission. In the face of climate change, your actions and your voice matter. Together, we can create a sustainable future. Join the global movement. Rise for climate action. Together, let’s Cool The Globe!

Leaf. Make reading count Leaf is a mobile app built on a simple observation: nearly every popular activity now has a dedicated app and community layer except reading. Runners have Strava, hikers have AllTrails, film buffs have Letterboxd, but readers have had no equivalent place to track their progress and find each other. Leaf is designed to fill that gap. How it works At the center of Leaf is a session timer. You pick the book you're reading, optionally set an aim, and hit start. The clock runs against the page you're on, not a social feed. When you stop, Leaf automatically logs the session's duration, pages read, pace (pages per hour), and how far through the book you are. Nothing needs to be entered manually. From there, you choose what happens to that session: - Keep it private, and it still counts toward your personal stats. - Post it to the feed, where friends and followers can see it and react ("leaf" it). Community features - Clubs: groups organized around a single book, which can be public or private and can run entirely online or as in person meetups. - Challenges: shared, time boxed goals (for example, "300 pages in August") where you can see your own progress alongside everyone else attempting the same challenge. Personal record Every user gets a running ledger of their reading life: total hours read, current day streak, and a history of every book finished. This turns reading into something with visible, cumulative progress rather than something that just quietly happens or doesn't. Why it exists (mission) Leaf's founders point to real declines in reading engagement, citing NEA data showing a drop in the share of U.S. adults reading at least one book per year, and national test data showing continued declines in reading scores among students. They argue the fix isn't more content, it's more culture around reading: people to read alongside, visible progress, and low pressure ways to participate. They point to groups like Silent Book Club, which has more than 2,000 chapters worldwide, as proof people already want this. The stated design goal is to make reading feel social and sustainable without turning it into homework; challenges and stats are meant to encourage people to come back, not to grade how they read.