Newton Eco Teams - Home

The list below identifies community organizations who support the Newton Eco-Team Project by helping us create Eco-Teams.

Eco-Teams, groups of 5-8 people from different households, meet three or four times to work through a fun, easy-to-use workbook called The Low Carbon Diet, which shows, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce CO2 output in just a month's time. You learn to:

• Calculate your CO₂ footprint with an easy-to-use online carbon calculator.
• Create cool household systems that save the earth while saving you money.
• Take on cool lifestyle practices to reduce CO₂ emissions.

Form an Eco-Team with friends, neighbors, colleagues, or your faith community! With simple changes to actions you take every day, you’ll learn how to reduce your annual household CO₂ output by 25%.

1. In response to President Obama's call to service, we ask you to join this grassroots effort to address global warming.
2. The Commonwealth has pledged substantial carbon reduction goals by 2012.
3. The Eco-Team project provides a grass-roots strategy to meet the target and reduce the carbon footprint of the residential sector by 25%.
4. This conservation strategy will yield results very quickly at very low cost.
5. Most steps will either save money immediately or have a short payback period.
6. By bringing neighbors together the program builds community.
7. The carbon footprint of the average American household is twice that of a German household and almost four times that of a Swedish household. We can do better.

The Eco-team Project gathers carbon reductions figures from each Eco-Team and combines them to calculate the total reduction of carbon emissions. To participate, go through the steps under "How to use this website" and record your numbers by clicking "Calculate your carbon footprint."

Get a workbook to start the process:

To buy it, contact Entasis@RCN.com, bglickman@mindspring.com, or Green Decade; or go to a local bookstore or Amazon.

Or borrow it from the Newton Free Library.