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You can rev up your green motivation by focusing on a specific, doable green challenge. Whether you go it alone or push through with friends, beating one of these feasible eco-smart challenges will leave you feeling like a total champion.
The Big Dig house, located just outside of Boston, MA, was inspired by a serious green challenge. The engineers wanted to figure out how to transform salvaged materials from a major highway demolition into a cool, stylish contemporary home. As a green second act to the large-scale urban construction project of changing a highway into a tunnel, the team headed to the old site and figured out how to turn 300 tons of trash into an award-winning testament to creativity and eco-innovation.
Sure, not everyone is up to turning steel tunnel beams into a house, but anyone can take a whack at the Two Mile Bicycle Challenge, the 100 Mile Diet Challenge, the Bread Challenge, or the 100 Thing Challenge. If you’re ready to go farther than your own household and take your commitment to your community, get your friends, neighbors, co-workers, fellow parents, fellow alumni, fellow drivers, fellow shoppers, or fellow voters together, and see what green goals you can reach or surpass. Like the architects behind the Big Dig who saw a big challenge and came up with a fantastic solution, look around your corner of the world to see what needs doing. What’s going on in your neck of the woods that might be able to move forward in a more green direction?
This post was inspired by World’s Greenest Homes.
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