It's Time

to ride in the Election Cycle!

Last year the boys were amazed to learn that if you ask people for money...they give! Our goal was $250 and we raised over $500. We rode ten miles and when we got done Nate said.."next year...25"

It's next year...we are riding 25 miles. This year we started a team..more people =more fun! The ride is September 18 ( Sunday) starting at noon.

If you can join our team ( called We are The Them of course) please do.
Go here and click on Join on Team (It is cheaper if you join by this Thursday Sept 1...cost $10)

If you can't ride...please sponsor us...our team goal is $1000.
To sponsor us..go to our team page

Now more than ever we in Wisconsin need to pay attention to who is elected!! You can be a part of making sure that our legislators protect the environment. Be the change you want to see in the world...join our We are the Them team and ride on Sept 18....or sponsor us and help us meet our fund raising goal.

It's over

Our Greener Faster Challenge is over!

How we did:

Natural Gas Usage: We actually went up a little compared to last year but were still 57% better than the Madison average of 856 therms/yr.

Electricity Usage
We did 6% better than 2009, bringing us to 22% better than the Madison average (the two big ticket items we are looking into..a more efficient clothes drier and a more efficient hot water heater)

Average Weekly Recycling: 6lbs
Average Weekly Trash: 1.6lbs
This was one of the lowest trash weights and we had four people!

Miles Driven:
62% better than the Madison average

Water:
19% better than the Madison average ( our most disappointing category...we had two water leaks that took us awhile to find and then to fix)

Food:
We averaged 80% local/organic ( no Madison average to compare to) This is the category we made the most change in. We now buy almost exclusively from Willy Street Coop...with Whole Food and Regent Coop as our back ups.

All participants got great prizes
We got a $100 gift certificate to our Willy St Coop..our favorite place to shop! And a gift certificate to Trek bikes. And 4 one month bus passes. Wow!!

I will miss the support of the other Greener Faster families..but am relieved to not have to collect any more data.


Photo: jayneandd