A job in every town, for everyone.  Better than a chicken in every pot.

1.  Less driving.
2. Ocasional power shortage.
3.  Local food (instead of carbon intentive transported food) that needs freezing or other preservation to use off season.
4.  And so forth...

What would each sacrifice do in terms of a carbon saving "wedge"?  

Redesign the grand energy plan to include voluntary sacrifice, that could speed things up signifigantly.

I have in mind emergency backup battery systems for storm outage and to offset power use.  They pay ther own way in lower power bills.  How?

You buy the system for about 500 dollars and your savings would pay for it in a year or so.  Then add solar panels to charge the batteries.  More savings a few years payback.

the way it works is you go on the budget plan that charges less at off peak times amd more on peak.  6 cents per kwh in off peak.  Up to 42 cents per kwh on peak.

Your batteries charge up offpeak at 6 cents per kwh, you use them to power your low power needs when it would cost you 42 cents per kwh.  You time your high power uses, furnaces, water heaters, washers, etc. for offpeak times.  

This would be the start of a renewable energy home.  And it would bridge power outages on the grid, because of storms or a transition to a reneweable smart grid.

You would sacrifice 500 dollars at first.  Then maybe 800 for solar panels.  Then another step ... maybe a 2000 dollar plugin hybrid rear axle for your car.   The savings paying back your investment.

And of course there are paths to follow in every aspect of energy and agriculture.

Victory/climate gardens too, definitly.  In the form of local organic CSAs.