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

Doug Tallamy’s May 2023 Presentation “Homegrown National Park”

Dr. Doug Tallamy is the highly honored T.A. Baker Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. “Homegrown National Park (HNP)” is a national challenge to create diverse ecosystems in our yards, communities, and surrounding lands by reducing lawn, planting native, and removing invasives. The goal of HNP is to create a national movement to restore 20 million acres with natives, an area representing half of what is now in lawn.

In this hour-and-a-half-long talk, which was sponsored by the Town’s Sustainability, Forestry & Beautification, and Woods Committees, Dr. Tallamy explains to Grovers what they can do to support a healthy ecosystem and why that’s important. He describes an approach to conservation that empowers each of us to play a significant role in the future of the natural world.