Requirement
4. Audit your home, and keep a fourteen-day log
Required Often forgotten
An energy audit of your home plus a 14-day log recording what you and your family did to reduce energy use, then a discussion after the fourteen days are up. It involves your household, so it needs a conversation before it starts.
Notes and warnings
Warning. START THIS IN WEEK ONE. It is a fourteen-day log and fourteen days cannot be compressed. Everything numbered after it (five examples of energy waste, five pie charts, five energy systems, and careers) is desk work that is not blocked by the log and can be done while it runs. Reach requirement 4 in its numbered position and it adds two weeks to the end of the badge; start it first and it costs nothing. It also records what YOU AND YOUR FAMILY did, so it needs a conversation with your household before day one.
What this is made of
Where this step comes from
- Energy Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-15), Requirement 4 · The requirement states a 14-day log.