Taking climate action doesn’t have to be overwhelming! Introducing the Fairfax County Climate Action Checklist: a spreadsheet designed to help you track your progress in adopting sustainable habits and making environmentally conscious choices that can also save you money.

The checklist includes more than 70 individual climate actions you can take to help reduce your carbon emissions and build resilience so you can better withstand the impacts of climate change. For each action, there is information on the cost up front and yearly savings in both money and carbon emissions. Checkboxes help you keep track of what you've already done and how your savings can add up while your carbon footprint goes down. There are also links to incentives and resources to make taking actions cheaper and easier.

Not ready to tackle all 70-plus actions? No problem. To make taking climate action even easier, there are shorter checklists, all focused on a different theme: Home Energy, Resiliency, Transportation, and Waste.

Small actions can lead to big changes. 

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Our Resources for Residents webpage not only features the Climate Action Checklist, but highlights even more resources, like videos and infographics to help you understand how everyday actions can help combat climate change.