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