American Families Adopt Swedish Eco-Experiment
3,205 views · Published 25 February 2010 · 3:22 · Indexed 28 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2010 · News & Politics
A few years ago, a group of twelve families in the Swedish town of Kalmar on the Baltic Sea pledged to reduce their impact on the environment. They succeeded by lowering their carbon emissions by one third. Their green energy eco-initiative is serving as a model for a Swedish-government program to engage average Americans, among the world's most extravagant energy users, in a similar effort. VOA's Rosanne Skirble visited a family that signed up to be Climate Pilots and filed this report.
