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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our footprint - AC and fans over summer
I realized that my carbon footprint, specifically in the home category, is something I could improve on. Mine is 2998 kgs, 759 kgs lower than my region’s average. However, we often have fans and the AC running a lot over summer, often overnight. This is partially because it’s ridiculously hot, but also because we neglect to turn it off or lower it once it’s decent since the cool air is nice. If we were to make sure to turn things down more often we could probably make a decent difference. We could probably also find more eco-friendly appliances online somewhere.