ActSmall

Turn awareness into action, one tap at a time.

ActSmall is a small family of free, map-first civic-action sites. Each one takes a real-world problem — clean water, safe air, wildfire response, food security — and turns live public data into one concrete next step for whoever is looking at the map. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. No miracle promises.

Most public-good information sites tell you a problem exists and stop there. We try to help you take the next step.

Topics

  • Water Live

    Live water-stress, drinking-water gaps, water-related disasters and active emergency appeals on a click-anywhere world map. Each country shows ranked open-source treatment techniques and one context-picked thing you can do tonight.

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  • Air Soon

    PM2.5 and pollution data from OpenAQ + NASA TEMPO. Household action: a $30 box-fan filter, the highest dollar-per-life-year intervention in public health. Coming this season.

  • Fire Soon

    Active wildfires from NASA FIRMS. One-tap donate to whichever Red Cross / Direct Relief operation is running at the fire nearest you, plus help mapping the burn scar from a laptop.

  • Food Soon

    IPC / FEWS NET food-security phases on a world map. One-tap donate to the WFP operation in any sub-region currently scored Phase 4 (emergency) or Phase 5 (famine).

What every ActSmall site shares

  • One picked action.Every map click chooses the single highest-leverage thing you can do for that place right now — not a list of fifty options.
  • Live, free public data.Refreshed every fifteen minutes from openly available feeds. We don’t scrape, gate, or paywall anything.
  • Browser-local action log.“Mark done” and “30-day reminder” entries live only in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded.
  • No accounts, no tracking.No analytics. No cookies. No emails collected. No ads. No upsells. No newsletter.
  • Open-source by default.Recommendations cite their open-access references. Code and data are public. Patches welcome.
  • Deliberately small to run.Each topic site costs single-digit dollars per month to operate. We will keep it that way.