Reducing our carbon output has always been important to us, and we have been trying to make a difference for a long time. Before the Smackdown started we had replaced a few lightbulbs, set up rain barrels and started composting.  We've always had a garden because we love gardening. We thought that we had done just about everything we could do without spending large amounts of money on things like new windows, a new boiler, insulation and hybrid cars. During the past months we have learned that there were many things we could still do, that add up to a lot.
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The Smackdown asked us to start tracking many aspects of our life and challenged us to do many small things to reduce our carbon out. Jon is very competitive, so it was important to him to try to complete as many nuggets as possible, whether or not we thought each one would make a difference to our carbon output. Each nugget has made us think about a different aspect of our carbon output. It has been amazing to us how so many little things can really add up to significant change.