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MY Family Footprint

Many students using our footprint calculator said that they could not pledge to reduce their home footprints because they were not making the decisions for the household. Here is your chance to design your own sustainable virtual household!

If you had your own home, what would you do to make it more energy efficient? Where would you get your electricity from? Where would your house be? Would you live near to your school or work or local transit options? Where would you get your food from?




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MY Family Footprint

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Box_had123   Today 13:13:27
Everyone's Carbon footprint is different!

My family's Carbon footprint is 16,841kg. Some people have near the average carbon footprint. Others have a very high Carbon footprint because maybe they have a big family or they have a small family and they have bad habits in their usage. But others sometimes have low carbon footprints because they pay attention if they are starting to have a bad habit and stop it.

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sophiah m   Yesterday 23:19:23
87,085...

My carbon footprint was 87,085 kgs which is a lot compared to the average of 9,727 kgs in California and is over 7 times the average carbon footprint. I think I might have calculated something wrong but I would still like to lower my carbon footprint by doing things like recycling stuff and using some of it for another purpose, turning off my bass and guitar amps when I'm not playing, walking more to places near me, or turning off the lights when im not in the room.

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Blue Cat   Yesterday 12:52:45 (Last post: Yesterday 22:54:36)
My Family Foot Print

My Family's carbon foot print is 7,711 lbs, so this topic made me think about how much we contribute I agree that small habits like using less electricity (Ex: turning off our lights when we leave the house or a room)  and recycling (Ex: I use a lot of cardboard to make animals  mostly sharks to hang up on my wall) and can really lower our footprint over time .It helped me understand that even simple changes big or small at home can make a big difference.

sophiah m   Yesterday 22:54:36

my carbon footprint is 87,085 kgs which is a lot compared to the average of 9,727 kgs in California. I might have calculated it wrong, but I would also like to lower it by turning lights off when I'm not using them, turning off my bass and guitar amps when I'm not playing, or walking more.

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Blue Cat   Yesterday 12:50:11
My Family Foot print

My Family's carbon foot print is 7,711 lbs, so this topic made me think about how much we contribute in our world ,I agree that small habits like using less electricity (Ex: turning off the lights of your house anytime you leave the room) and recycling (Ex: I use a lot of carboard to make animals to hang on my wall ) and can really lower our footprint over time .It helped me understand that even simple changes big or small at home can make a HUGE difference.

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CandyCane01   2025-11-13 20:41:24 (Last post: 2025-11-15 13:14:16)
Mine and your family's footprint

My family's carbon footprint is around 5,000kg, this may seem low because its less than the average california residents, but in my eyes this is quite high. The reason our footprint is this high is because of our bad habits like leaving the water running for too long, leaving electronics on when we're not using them, leaving lights on when leaving the room, not recycling everything we can, etc. You and I can lower our footprint just by making small changes to your routine; being mindful about water usage, turning off electronics and lights, and recycling as much as possible.

Box_had123   2025-11-15 13:14:16

My Family carbon is 16,841kg and my family is very strict on doing keeping stuff on or running and wasting money. It is bad habits to do all of that. The average carbon footprint is around 9,000kg. I wouldn’t necessarily disagree how your carbon footprint is high considering that others can have double or triple than 5,000kg. But i do agree on how we can change our carbon footprint by having better use on our water usage or electricity usage too.

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Maryam E.   2025-11-15 00:53:45
My Family Footprint

My family's carbon footprint is very low because we like to be cost efficient and reuse. We also like to take advantage of our resources when granted. Another thing that keeps our carbon footprint low is we home grow our vegetables and fruits, which saves us money in the long run.

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Atollox   2025-11-14 12:35:16
My Person Carbon Footprint and its Effects

My personal carbon footprint is 6,888 per year. This one carbon footprint is extremely low compared to the global total carbon footprint. If the global carbon footprint was this, our greenhouse gas emissions would be around 0 and healing our planet would be 100% possible within the next 200 years. However my carbon footprint is 1.4 times larger than the average, if everyone had this our greenhouse gas situation would be a lot more severe than it already is. And to top it off, eliminating the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere would be impossible, and our situation would worsen, causing weather and temperature disasters, harming our day to day lifestyles.

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Landoid-sjrstate   2025-11-13 16:51:26 (Last post: 2025-11-14 11:30:12)
LED

Simply by replacing all light bulbs with LED lights you can significantly reduce your carbon emissions. LED light bulbs use 85 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/reduc … nt-at-home

shahid   2025-11-14 11:30:12

this is a simple and smart way of reducing carbon emission. not only do you save energy, you also save money. if you replace 30 light bulbs with LED lights you can save about 4000 pounds of C02 per year.

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shahid   2025-11-14 11:24:35
reducing carbon emissions by using LED lights

using LED lights is a very simple and efficient way of reducing carbon emissions. LED lights use about 85% less than light bulb. Not only do you save the environment, you also save money. if you replace 30 light bulbs with LED lights, you can reduce your C02 by about 4000 pounds per year.


source: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/reduc … nt-at-home

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SanaK   2025-11-13 14:52:57
My Family's Carbon Footprint

My family's Carbon Footprint is 3,765 kgs, its less than the state and nation. My food category contains most of my carbon footprint with my home being second place. I think I need to work a bit better on my transportation even though it was low, I think it's because I didn't fully understand what it was asking or how to do it, but I think I'm at a pretty neutral stance about my carbon footprint.

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martinnn   2025-11-11 21:59:16 (Last post: 2025-11-13 14:50:17)
How Can We Reduce Carbon Footprints at Home?

I learned that most of my carbon emissions come from home energy and transportation. My footprint is 3,055 kg of CO₂ per year, which is lower than the average for California, but I still want to lower it. I think the easiest way to start is by using less electricity and turning off lights and electronics when not needed. Families can also switch to LED bulbs, use energy-efficient appliances, and adjust the thermostat to save energy. If more people made small changes at home, it could really help reduce total CO₂ levels.
(Source: ISCFC Calculator, 2024; EPA “Reducing Home Energy Use,” 2024)

matthewk1   2025-11-13 14:50:17

Another thing we can do to lower carbon emissions at home is to turn off the water while we are brushing our teeth and only using it when needed. We could also just not use any heating or air conditioning, and as a substitute for heating we can use blankets.

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Lema.7.A   2025-11-12 12:28:30
My family footprint

my footprint was in the 13,000 because of this big vacation we took that took 4, long plane rides, we don't often go on planes, usually we go on road trips using a gas or hybrid car but now we use an electric car and we still don't travel as much so we definitely have a decent carbon footprint somewhere under 9,000 without flights. I definitely need to use my fans less since I use them even when I'm not in the room, and use my lights less.

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