Sunday, July 25, 2010

What have we gottten ourselves into?

We are one of five Madison families selected to participated in year long Greener, Faster Challenge.

We have made a commitment to reduce our energy use to 40% below the Madison average. ( the good news...we are already 20% below, the bad news: we have done all the easy stuff already)

The challenge officially begins in August.

We will be working on goals related to
-energy use
-water conservation
-travel
-eating local and organic
-reducing our trash and increasing recycling

We took some steps to get better in each of these areas when we started this blog. But this challenge is more public and puts us in friendly competition with 4 other families. And there are prizes involved!

More details to follow.

1 comment:

Beth Albright said...

I know you will be great at this. I was inspired eoungh to to purchase the book to see what we can be doing better. Go Nesslars Go!