Sustainability Resource Center

Climate Actions Grovers Can Take

• Charge Up with Electric Vehicles

• Heat Pumps:
  • Convert to Heat Pumps
  • Switching Your Home Heating from an Oil or Propane Furnace to a Heat Pump
  • Switching Your Home Heating from Radiators to Heat Pumps – 13 Q & A’s

• Subscribe to Community Solar Electricity

Also Consider…

In Your Home

• Banish the Vampire in Your Home

• Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

• Conserve Your Home’s Heat

• Consider Induction Cooktops

• Eat Less Meat and Help Heal the Planet

• Hot Weather Tips for Staying Comfortable and Reducing Use of Electricity

• Save Energy and Money at Home with these Pepco Programs

• Schedule a Home Energy Audit

• Shrink Your Laundry Energy Use

• Switch to Renewable Electricity

In Your Yard

• Compost at Home

• Go Electric in Your Yard: Yard Care Alternatives

• Grasscycle!

• Plant Free Trees to Fight Global Warming

• Reduce Carbon Emissions through Smart Leaf Management in the Fall

To Reduce Waste and Plastic

• Reduce Waste

• Use Less Plastic

Yard Tools for a Greener Grove

Want to learn more about your neighbors’ gas-alternative blowers, chainsaws, edgers, hedge trimmers, leaf vacuum-mulchers, mowers, pruners, string trimmers or other yard tools?  Or do you own a gas-alternative yard tool, and you’d be happy to answer questions about it and/or loan it to a neighbor? Join the discussion at Yard Tools for a Greener Grove on Google Docs.