chilli - take climate action

I love this app. They mostly show you topics on environmental issues, but a few others too. In a half-hour you can send letters to congresspeople, governors and others responsible for making decisions. They write several versions of letters and forward them to your email address so they come from you and look like you wrote them. This a very valuable service as it’s not easy to write letters, even if you’re good at it. Now you can send as many as necessary to let the government know how you feel.

This app is simple, polished, and practical. It has potential for more that I hope it will reach, but even right now its purpose is being fulfilled by thousands of users. It feels good to do good every day and even better to have the option to get coupons and discount codes for ecofriendly products, just for doing tasks that are pretty much already done for you (eg, prewritten emails). Updates on new shop products and new donation campaigns are a little slow, but the team is always working on things and seems to be on top of the most necessary components of the app, like writing the messages that users send to people. I love apps like this and hope that more people will use them as the climate crisis continues to increase in urgency. The time to make change is now!

Really love the idea and motivation behind this app, it seems like it can become an affective tool however, I joined as an artist/political studies person because I feel like not only can I bring some important tools to this but also because I wanted to find other activists doing this. But when I fully setup the app I could not help but notice the sheer amount of ai art and content. This is extremely off putting to me and especially when the ai art is not even relevant to most of the missions they are under. The words are gibberish and the “drawings” are both bad and irrelevant in a lot of cases. I want to use this app and I want it to be an effective tool for change but things like this turn people away from it. I hope to see changes.