Swedish Family Doing The Lord's Work, Low-Carbon Edition

I wish them the very best with their project, they are God's own personal warriors. < /sarcasm>

One Tonne Life: A Swedish Family's Green Lifestyle Experiment Begins : TreeHugger: "This week in Sweden an unprecedented low carbon lifestyle experiment has begun. The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy consumption. The family's aim is to see if they can radically reduce their average carbon footprint of 7 tonnes per year, down to 1 tonne. TreeHugger was in Stockholm this week to meet them and hear the One Tonne Life story. Nils Lindell, 52, his wife Alicja, 51, daughter Hannah, 16, and son Jonathan,13, are enthusiastically gung-ho about their One Tonne Life challenge. They say they don't know exactly what changes they will have to make to their normal routines, but they are ready to embrace the new lifestyle programme and are keen to learn as much as possible about low carbon living through the process. "We will do whatever it takes" says Hannah, who is really the driving force in the family, being the one who discovered an advert for the project in the local paper, then persuading her family that taking part was a great idea. It helps of course that living in a beautiful, spacious, new designer home, with a Volvo electric car at their disposal, is part of the deal." (pic via One Tonne Life)

Additional links:
One Tonne Life - Start
BBC News - Swedish family's six month eco-house experiment