Reflections from my final week
September 26, 2012 in Blog
Well this is now my final week of the challenge. I am still excited about being involved in the challenge and feel our family has made some great progress in reducing our carbon footprint.
At the beginning I had wished that I could sign up for more than five challenges as I was interested in doing so many. Upon reflection it does actually take some time to implement changes in your household. There are many projects we are keen to implement over the coming year, so even though the challenge is almost over, my interest is still going strong.
We have successfuly become a one car family with my husband now catching the bus to work. We only wash clothes in cold water, we have made our five no dig garden beds and have planted our seedlings, we have purchased second hand items instead of buying things new and we have set up a compost bin outside and a compost pail in the kitchen. So we have successfully implemented our five challenges into our household over the 12 week challenge.
We have also replaced all our downlights with more efficient LED lights.
Projects we are still keen to do is get chickens, utilise grey water, reduce our standby power usage and draught proof our home.
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