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?
MY Family Footprint >
My carbon footprint
My carbon footprint is about 19,603. My highest contributing factors are home and transportation. Transportation being an area of concern makes sense because I play on multiple travel sports teams and am constantly driving one distances to different tournaments and games. The only thing i can really do about this to try and reduce my footprint is to try and carpool as much as possible with my team mates so were not burning more fossil fuels then nessecary. I think in my home is the category that needs the most improvements as it is an older house so it takes more energy to heat. Also i think my family and i could do a much better job of monitoring our our electricity use and making sure to turn of lights as much as possible.