The Burlington Free Press reports that "Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday by urging city residents to form 'eco-teams' with their friends and neighbors to reduce each family's carbon emissions by 5,000 pounds a year." The eco-teams are part of a "citywide campaign called the Kitchen Table Collaborative, a program in which teams of five to eight households meet periodically to brainstorm practical ways to reduce carbon emissions." Kiss explained that he has started his own eco-team in his Germain street Neighborhood and that the team's meetings have "raised his consciousness about unnecessary use of fossil fuels." Kiss added that his family is now "discussing an investment in new, tighter windows to reduce heating costs and emissions" and "are using their electric clothes dryer less and a drying rack in the basement more." Ultimately, "Kiss said his goal is to enlist 80 percent of the city's households to join eco-teams as part of the city's effort to reduce the residential carbon footprint of the city 25 percent by 2012."

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