Global Action Plan Community Lifestyles Campaign
Gershon, D. & Gilman, R. (1991). Household ecoteam workbook: A six month program to bring your household into environmental balance. Uxbridge, Ontario:
Summary
Results
The Global Action Plan (GAP) Community Lifestyles Campaign is targeted at households. A group of friends or neighbors get together eight times over 4 months. At each of these meetings they work through a chapter of the straightforward Household Ecoteam Handbook. Chapters cover such topics as energy efficiency, transportation, water conservation and waste reduction. Each chapter includes a variety of actions that households can take to reduce their environmental impact. Members rotate chairing these meetings and a member from another ecoteam that has already completed the workbook serves as a volunteer coach. Each Ecoteam is responsible for creating two other ecoteams. In the United States 40 to 50% of individuals who are asked to attend a first Ecoteam meeting agree to do so, of which approximately 85% continue with the process.
In the United States on average households that participate in Ecoteams produce 42% less garbage, use 25% less water, produce 16% less CO2, and use 16% less fuel for transportation. These households also saved annually $400 U.S. Similar positive impacts have been experienced by other countries in which the GAP operates. More information on this case can be found here.
In the United States on average households that participate in Ecoteams produce 42% less garbage, use 25% less water, produce 16% less CO2, and use 16% less fuel for transportation. These households also saved annually $400 U.S. Similar positive impacts have been experienced by other countries in which the GAP operates. More information on this case can be found here.
