WHAT DO CHANGE CLUBS DO?

CHANGE CLUBS METHOD

In Change Clubs people get together to move towards a more sustainable life – meeting regularly to identify actions and individual goals, share knowledge and experience, discuss and monitor progress, support each other and have fun! The best recipe to achieve change, step by step, and with joy. 

A Change Club can be a group of friends, neighbours, colleagues, people from the same town, city or region, or members of an online group, also people who don’t know each other before simply sharing an interest in the cause.

Each Club is free to organise itself. The members agree on the periodicity – with a minimum of one meeting per month; the format of their meetings (e.g. in presence, online or hybrid); and on (at least) one facilitator who moderates the meetings and serves as contact point for our Coordination Team and the Change Clubs network.

Information, recommendations, tips for action and more is provided to all Clubs through ‘Change Modules’, which cover the central thematic areas, including diet, mobility, energy, lifestyle, waste, finance, biodiversity, and ‘getting out’ to take action. Change Club members can use the modules as a guide for reducing their environmental impact, a source for information and inspiration. The Change Modules are framed within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – with climate and environmental protection at the centre, while highlighting co-benefits for other SDGs. The suggested time frame for each action area (Change Module) is 4-6 weeks, allowing to cover all areas within a year.

STEPS TO CREATE A CHANGE CLUB

We suggest the following steps to start a Change Club:

  • With whom?
    Anyone that wants to join your Club. We recommend a size between 5 and 15 people for face-to-face meetings. For online or hybrid meetings it may be more, but we suggest not going over 20 members, so that all can participate in an active and meaningful way.
  • How?
    Anyone can register a Change Club: just write to us at “info@changeclubs.global” with your name, contact/location and envisaged number or list of participants.
  • Where to start?
    At an initial meeting of your Change Clubs (at your home or another location, or online) you choose the modality and frequency of the meetings. You agree on the first area you want to start with (e.g. with the topic of your first month corresponding to our yearly cycle). If members feel ready at the first meeting, each of you may identify the action you want to start with; or you may start with it at your second meeting. You will be provided ideas, information, and suggestions through the → Change Modules, which we are developing throughout 2023 and which will continuously be updated.
  • What’s next?
    At the subsequent meetings, the members share their experiences, discuss the challenges and achievements, and exchange ideas and tips on how to advance. You may monitor progress individually and collectively, e.g. with the Eevie app below. Participants decide whether to continue with the same action area or move on to a new one.

Our Coordination team supports the Change Clubs in the creation process and beyond. The team will provide all clubs with content, tips and information, including the Change Modules that each Change Club can use for inspiration or guidance, while each Club decides where to start and what to do.

Change Clubs members and facilitators can send comments, questions and suggestions at any time to the coordination team at the email: info@changeclubs.global or contact us. We will do our best to support you with what you may require. We also aim to organise regular meetings with all Change Club facilitators to foster wider exchange and to establish a platform for exchange among all interested Change Clubs and their members.

FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS WITH THE EEVIE APP

Seeing progress motivates you to keep moving. We therefore recommend to regularly have a look at the progress that you are making – individually and as a Change Club – in the effort of reducing the ecological footprint and living more sustainability. 

For many areas, this can be done easily and effectively using the application ‘Eevie’ – a digital platform that helps individuals and groups to build sustainable habits that weave into their daily lives. The users can measure, calculate and track their habit changes with the app. While anyone can go on the Eevie journey alone, habit changes are more effective when done in a community. 

Change Club members can join the ‘Change Clubs community’ in the Eevie app to calculate and monitor how much greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced, and thereby prevented from entering the atmosphere, by each member, each Club and the Change Clubs movement as a whole. A powerful tool! 

Additionally, with the Eevie app, each member may choose to get rewarded for their daily climate actions with tree seedlings to compensate for unavoidable emissions and grow their very own forest with Eevie’s seedling partner, Eden Reforestation Projects.

The use of the app is provided free of charge for all Change Clubs and their participants by our partner Eevie. A complete guide on how to use the Eevie app and join the Change Clubs community will be provided to all Clubs and their participants.

If you are interested in creating a change club please contact us.