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
Me and my family live in Iceland. There our houses are heated by natural heat in the earth so we don't need much or any electric heating. Electric cars are getting more popular and we own one. Before that we had a mixed metan and fuel car so it has been important to us for a long time to think about the environment. Because of covid we haven't been travelling a lot so our footprint has not been large the last two years. I think we are doing a good job but we can always do better. The plan is to spare water and electricity more than we have and just go up from here:)
That's awesome. I've heard that Iceland has made a lot of bounds in reducing carbon footprint and have read news articles about the gaseous earth heating/cooling system.
I hope more countries start to implement natural methods like that.