You Can Make a Big Difference

Individual action is key. Here are some things you can do:

• Minimize your home energy use

• Seek opportunities to use public transit, carpool, walk or bike

• Purchase a more energy-efficient vehicle

• Buy groceries and supplies produced locally

• Switch to Clean Power for your home: https://www.papowerswitch.com/

• Invest in rooftop solar and solar water heating systems (rebates are often available and commercial building owners may obtain low-cost loans through Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy financing: https://www.thesef.org/

• Replace lawns with native trees, shrubs and plants; decrease your use of fertilizers

• Minimize stormwater flowing directly into storm drains — use rain barrels, rain gardens, and the like

• If possible, use reclaimed water for nonpotable uses such as watering your garden

• Contact your municipality to demand a robust, implementable and verifiable climate action plan

For more ideas, check out DEP’s 2018 climate action plan: