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's carbon footprint
My family has a large carbon footprint, which is a thing we have to work on.
I agree with you 100%, Me and my family have an average/high carbon amount that we could definitely work on. For instance, how I primarily heat my house with gas or fuel oil made my co2 numbers go up the most for "home". That is something my family could definitely work on. My parents both have different temperature preferences so I find the heat or air conditioning is always on. Another thing is transportation. My transportation numbers were pretty high and I would like to work on it. I'm always going out far every week for sports, but I drive to school. so I am hoping to walk more to school/ take public transit. My food numbers were pretty good. I try to cut out meat for a few meals every week, but my parents (mostly my dad) rely on meat. I think a lot of families also primarily rely on meat. For some families it might be hard to cut out meat as vegetarian/organic options can be more expensive and less accessible so it is unrealistic for everyone to stop eating meat. I think we all have things to work on with our CO2 numbers as no one is perfect, But if we all work hard I think we can lower all our carbon footprints collectively.