ActSmall

Seeds for the next generation, one tap at a time.

ActSmall is eight sibling sites — water, air, fire, food, forest, ocean, bees, and ground — each free, map-first, and built to turn live public data into one concrete next step for whoever is looking. Plain English. Source-cited. CC BY-SA 4.0 where we publish long-form library material. No accounts. No cookies. No third-party trackers. No ads. No miracle promises.

Most civic sites stop at the headline. We try to hand you the next useful click — and on Forest, Bees, and Ground, a growing library you can pass on.

Today’s one click → RSS Open-data ledger

Explore the topics

Same recipe everywhere: click a place, see what the open data says, get one vetted action. Forest adds a second surface — primers and project cards — because old-growth decisions need room to breathe.

  • Forest Live map Library

    Forest cover, intact-forest extent, protected land — plus primers, regional snapshots, and printable project cards. Old growth stays in the spotlight here.

    Open map → Library →
  • Ocean Live

    Marine protected share of territorial waters and threatened-fish listings from World Bank open series. One headline action per coast — advocacy, seafood literacy, or open marine data.

    Open map →
  • Water Live

    Water stress, drinking-water gaps, disasters, and appeals — with ranked treatment techniques and one context-picked step.

    Open map →
  • Air Live

    Live PM2.5, NO2 and ozone from OpenAQ against WHO guidelines. One context-picked action per place.

    Open map →
  • Fire Live

    NASA FIRMS hotspots plus GDACS alerts; defensible space, go-bags, and who is running the response when it matters.

    Open map →
  • Food Live

    WFP HungerMap LIVE plus IPC classifications — food banks, waste cuts, or the active humanitarian lane.

    Open map →
  • Bees Live map Library

    Managed beehive density, GBIF wild-bee observation density, and the agriculture share — with primers on wild bees vs. honeybees and one action per place.

    Open map → Library →
  • Ground Live map Library

    Indoor radon (where surveyed), adult smoking prevalence, drinking-water gaps, and arsenic-affected aquifers — with primers on the personal radiation dose budget and one $20 home test per place.

    Open map → Library →

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 daily 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 third-party trackers, no cookies.No Google Analytics, Plausible, PostHog, Meta Pixel. No emails collected. No ads. No upsells. No newsletter. We do keep aggregate, server-side counts of page views and outbound clicks (no PII), publish them openly under each topic at /live/analytics-weekly.json, and delete the underlying raw access logs after 30 days. Full disclosure on each topic’s About page.
  • 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.