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 -Terrell Gray
My household carbon footprint was around the score I predicted. I think the thing that made it rise the most was our household appliances and the things that we eat regularly in a week. Some things that were good that brought it down was reusing plastic and brown bags from the stores. Also, carpooling to Odowd every week will lower your carbon footprint. Since I live farther away from Odowd I am not able to bike or walk to school. So carpooling is a good method to lower my Carbon Footprint. Some things we can do to lower our footprint even more is to save water. We can do this by using a two sided flusher toilet which we have in all bathrooms. Whichever you go you can flush with more or less water. We can also do this by collecting some of the water from the shower and using it to water plants and use it in the dogs water bowl.
Yes!! I love the idea with the two sided flusher toilet and collecting water, I think the thing that would also help would be for an example replacing your regular light bulbs with led light bulbs, it may be a small detail, but it can surely make a huge difference! 