Sustain Fairfax: Your Actions, Our Climate
With your actions and support, we can create a sustainable and resilient Fairfax County — helping fight climate change and protect our community. By taking action now, you can reduce your energy bill, help cut emissions and make our community sustainable for everyone.
Join the Sustain Fairfax Challenge and Track Your Climate Action
Fairfax County is encouraging residents to take climate action into their own hands using BrightAction! This new climate engagement platform makes it simple, easy, and fun to learn about climate solutions and take action through an interactive dashboard. Sign up now to start reducing your environmental impact through progress tracking, daily reminders, and collaboration with friends, family, and colleagues
Climate Action Checklists
We created checklists to help you adopt sustainable habits and make environmentally conscious choices that can also save you money. These lists highlight climate actions, all focused on a different theme, along with their cost up front and yearly savings in both money and carbon emissions. Plus, links to incentives and resources to make taking actions cheaper and easier! Translated versions of these checklists can be found on our Translated Resources webpage.
Personal Climate Action and Resilience Resources
- Video: Personal Climate Action: A Carbon-Free Fairfax Webinar
- Video: Know Your Numbers: Everyday Climate Actions
- Video: Extreme Heat & Climate Change Webinar
- Video: Resilient Fairfax: Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change
Electric-Powered Lawn Equipment
Gas-powered lawn equipment - such as leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and other devices used to clear debris and maintain landscaping - has negative impacts on the environment and poses an immediate and quantifiable risk to our health. County facilities are making the switch to electric powered lawn equipment. Will you join us?
Resilient Fairfax Fact Sheet
Home Energy Resources
- Video: The Benefits of a Home Energy Assessment
- Video: Small Actions, Big Impact: Five Easy Ways to Save Energy at Home
- Video: Whole Home Energy Efficiency: A Carbon Free Fairfax Webinar
- Video: Water Conservation in Bathrooms: A HomeWise Webinar
- Video: Outdoor Water Conservation: A HomeWise Webinar
Solar Energy Resources
- Videos: Myths vs. Facts: Solar Power playlist
- Videos: Solar Power: Fairfax County Resident Go Solar playlist
Myth vs. Fact: Solar Power
Solar Power 101
Transportation Resources

- Videos: Myths vs. Facts: Electric Vehicles playlist
- Videos: Electric Vehicles: Fairfax County Residents Make The Switch playlist
- Video: Four Ways to Drive Less and Be Carbon Free
- Video: Selecting & Purchasing an EV: A Carbon-Free Fairfax Webinar
- Video: Electrify Your Ride with Tax Incentives: A Carbon-Free Fairfax Webinar
Electric Vehicle Decision-Making Guide
Switching to an EV: A Resource Guide
Be Car-Free, Be Carbon-Free
Myth vs. Fact: Electric Vehicles (EVs)
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