How the game works

Goal: reduce annual utility usage by 10%, and overall emissions by 30% (i.e. some, we hope, will switch to green power)

First step: complete the e-mailed spreadsheet (24 #s in total, < 5 minutes; info avail. on your utility's website or by ordering them up w/one phone call while sitting in traffic).  I propose 11/04 thru 10/05 as our base-year for comparison.

Second step: let your usage-reduction ideas run wild.

Quarterly, we'll update our usage sheets to see how we're doing.

Good luck!

p.s. Question: any thoughts on how/whether or not to incorporate the purchase of carbon-trading rights into the game?  Maybe make our usage-reduction goal 10% and our emissions-reduction goal 100% (not 30%) - i.e. at the end of the year, participants purchase carbon-trading rights to render themselves carbon neutral (should only cost ~ $100 - 150 per individual, worst case, I suspect).

Comments

[brittstephens]

see comment above
http://seaver.typepad.com/chickenlittle/2006/02/easy_but_not_fo.html