I can’t speak for the others in the group, but here is what’s true for me: I’m saturated with sedentary work between writing this blog and my full-time job in transportation options. All that sedentary work is highly mental, highly detailed, and tightly focused on sustainability. My commute keeps me sedentary another seven hours per week, and steadily recurring home-office tasks like bill-paying and planning trips to see my elderly parents keep my butt in a chair and my brain trained on details yet more hours per month.

In short, I didn’t feel willing/able to add the sedentary CRAG work of counting my household’s carbon in addition to all the above. I constantly am fighting to find a couple hours in any given week to hike, dance or go running to keep myself in some semblance of mind/body balance.

For me, the endless tracking of details is almost as bad as constantly having my butt in a seat. I’d love to hear from successful CRAG participants on how they push back against both of the barriers I’m describing.

We set our goal at 10% of the average American emissions in each category. Some of us get there, most of us have trouble in one category or another, which helps to pinpoint where we need infrastructure change.

To meet the founders and participants, visit us at http://www.riot4austerity.org/blog/

or look for us on Yahoo Groups.

Congratulations on the launch of your project and good luck.