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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Reducing my carbon footpring
My family, has been trying to reduce our carbon footprint for a while. The first thing we did was get solar panels. Solar panels are used to store energy from the sun which causes a house to use less energy from sources that add to your carbon footprint. By using solar panels our carbon footprint has reduced a lot, but there are still many ways I can reduce it even more. Another way I reduced my carbon footprint is by buying more foods from my local farmers market instead of buying from grocery stores that use many more fossil fuels to ship and distribute their products.