OVER FIVE YEARS OF RIOT!
This is the Riot for Abundance for the months of August, September and October, 2104 for the three of us (two adults, one nine-year-old). Edson fixed the calculator: all go tither to crunch those numbers! And here’s another fun website for the mathematically inclined: Do the Math.
Gasoline. Â Calculated per person. Our weakest point in the Riot,
15 gallons pp. per month
36.5% of the US National Average
Electricity. This is reckoned per household, not per person. We cook on an electric stove and occasionally now we turn on the electrical heater in the bathroom. According to our solar meter, we produced 16443 kWh since the system was turned on in August 2011 and 1464 kWh over the last three months (you can follow our solar harvest live here). In the last month, which was pretty cloudy, we underproduced, so had to buy from Nstar, 86 kWh. So we consumed 1464 + 86 = 1550 kWh.
516 kWh per month
28.5% of the US National Average
Heating Oil and Warm Water. This too is calculated for the entire household. Our solar hot water system (installed in February last year) took care of all our hot water.
 4.55 gallons of oil / month
7.4% of the US National Average
Water. I don’t have any numbers here. Due to work in our basement the meter is at this point inaccessible.
Trash. After recycling and composting this usually comes down to mainly food wrappers.
6 lbs. pp per month
4.4 %Â of the US National AverageÂ