Sneak Attack

We had our August Green Faster Challenge Meeting last night at a lovely home on the Near East Side in the Williamson Neighborhood. We will be having one meeting a month to go over what each family has been doing to reduce their impact and discuss challenges, goals etc.

We will also be reviewing the ENACT book.
Available online here: http://www.enactwi.org/index.php?page=download-the-pdfs

The first chapter is titled "Conserve Energy" and Mike and I will be leading the discussion next month. We are thinking about making several dioramas using old shoe-boxes to bring this chapter to life! (Diorama-a small model of a real-life scene that has lifelike details and a realistic background). When was the last time you made a Diorama!

I must say that I'm very impressed and a little intimidated by the other families who are competing with us.

One of the families composts underneath their sink all year using worms. Another family only produces a small plastic grocery bag full of garbage a week. And another family eats almost 100% local or organic, buying and freezing local fruit and vegetables to use in the winter.

Here's a link to the ENACT website and the short family bios. http://www.enactwi.org/index.php?page=greener-faster-challenge-participants

It was interesting as we were discussing all that we have done so far in the challenge, nobody divulged how they stand against the Madison average. It was simply not discussed! It seems nobody wants to share their statistical information..and I like it this way. We are all simply trying to improve upon what we each do individually. Mike on the other hand thinks this should be public knowledge and he intends to argue for full disclosure at the next ENACT meeting.

I think that we will have to come with the sneak attack approach and surprise everyone in the end!