Dismayed by the environmental policies of our current federal government? Use your spending power to combat fossil fuel use and other environmental destruction. Each purchase we make has direct environmental implications, so let’s put our spending power to positive use. Below are some actions we can take, large and small. It’s up to us now!

1. Reduce travel energy: Carpool, walk, bike, and take the train (or bus) — these are the least fuel-consuming ways of getting around. Combine errands, take vacations closer to home, and minimize short-distance flying.

2. Electrify your driving: Need a car? EVs are far less energy-consuming than gas cars, even when considering sources of electricity. If you rent, consider a plug-in hybrid that can be charged with a standard outlet and uses battery power alone for 25 miles or so.

3. Reduce home energy use: Go to masssave.com and investigate numerous energy-saving tools for homeowners and renters. Get a free Mass Save Home Energy Assessment for up-to-date recommendations and incentives, including for larger insulation and weatherization projects.

4. Electrify your home: Electric heat pumps offer great potential in most homes, whether as supplemental heat or as complete replacement of fossil fuel heating and water heating, providing much higher overall energy efficiency than fossil fuel equipment. Get advice from your Mass Save Home Energy Assessment.

5. Electrify your yard: Rechargeable battery lawn mowers and other tools are much more energy-efficient and far less polluting (and noisy) than gas counterparts.

6. Invest in solar: Become a direct producer of renewable energy with a rooftop or ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) system or, if you are a renter or your property isn’t well suited, invest in a community solar project. Solar PV systems provide good return on investment by lowering or eliminating electricity bills. Anyone with an electric account can participate in community solar. Have low or moderate income? Massachusetts has an excellent subsidized solar loan program to help finance installation.

7. Eat less or no beef: Enjoy other meats and especially plant foods to greatly reduce multiple environmental impacts of the beef industry, including methane release and rainforest clearing.

8. Buy local food: Support local farms for a host of benefits to the local economy and community. Local farms are much more apt to use sustainable practices than far-off industrial farms.

9. Buy less stuff: Live more simply and re-use/recycle to reduce mining, extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and disposal of products. Sell, give away, and recycle things you aren’t using so that others can put them to better use.

10. Contribute to environmental organizations doing good work: They need it now more than ever!

John Saveson is a building energy efficiency consultant. He lives in Florence.