I started a new sustainability challenge over at YouSustain: Reduce household electricity use by 5 percent

This challenge may be my favourite one yet. It’s a great motivator to examine the way we all use energy. Once we take a look, the biggest and most wasteful ones become fairly obvious, and it’s easy to come up with ways to reduce them.

In the challenge I tried to give tips on some of the easiest and biggest ones. Please send me any suggestions for other good ways to reduce.

After this challenge gets started I plan to create another for reducing by 10%, and then …