You can make an impact

 The pledge is designed to be an action plan to reduce your energy use and carbon emissions, with energy use calculations and actions tailored to residents of the South Coast region.

For links to sites to calculate your ecological or carbon footprint, visit our resources page.

Pledging to Get Energized is the first step to learning specific action steps you can take to reduce your energy usage.

The routine choices we make every day, such as flipping on the light switch or taking a long shower, are all associated with energy  use and therefore greenhouse gas emissions. The energy that we  are accustomed to using abundantly comes from power plants,  which generate energy by burning fossil fuels – emitting large  amounts of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in the process.  Using less energy in our daily lives means our nation needs fewer  of those carbon-emitting power plants.