SMART Pledge

SMART Pledge for SMART People

We’re so happy that you’ve decided to start living SMART! By taking the pledge below and making these small, simple changes, you are making a great contribution to your community, keeping it a healthy and sustainable place in which to live and work.

My current carbon footprint is

and my goal in one year is to have a carbon footprint of

pledge to reduce my personal carbon footprint by doing the following (choose one or more of the actions below):

	Reduce my power consumption by turning off the lights when they are not being used. –Save 376 lbs. of CO2 a year
	Install a water-efficient showerhead. –Save 350 lbs of CO2 a year
	Turn off computers when not in use. – Save 120 lbs of CO2 a year
	Unplug electronic devices when not in use. –Save thousands of pounds of CO2 a year
	Reduce my gas/diesel consumption by carpooling or taking public transportation to work one or more days per week. –Save 1,590 lbs of CO2 a year
	Set my washing machine to wash clothes in cold water. –Save 500 lbs of CO2 a year
	Reduce, reuse and recycle. –Save 2,400 lbs of CO2 a year by recycling half your household waste
	Use cloth shopping bags when shopping. –Save 2 lbs of CO2 for every 10 plastic bags
	Turn my thermostat down 2 degrees in the winter and up 2 degrees in the summer. –Save around 2,000 lbs of CO2 a year
	Maintain my personal vehicle by making sure the tires are properly inflated and getting regular tune-ups. –When just 1% of car owners get regular tune-ups, nearly a billion pounds of CO2 are kept OUT of the atmosphere
	Make sure my dishwasher is completely full before running it. –Save 100 lbs of CO2 per year
	Other – please indicate your personal action/goal in the text box.

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