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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Transportation and Energy
Transportation was a huge difference to my footprint. Does anybody know how I should make my transportation footprint smaller? It was mostly my home and school (distance) that was the problem (45 km).
Another question. How do I save more energy when taking a shower?
You should probably take the public transportation or drive a car but a few other people with you on the car. You can save more energy when taking a shower by turn off the running water when you don't need it. You can also shower faster. This way, we can save the world and reduce energy.
Very agreed
The way to decrease your carbon footprint is to take public transportation such as buses, or MRT. This is because many people taking one transportation is better than many people polluting the environment by driving cars.
If you like cars, drive an electric car.
The shower problem, is that you take a shower with cold water since heating up the water creates pollution if you use a gas powered heater. You could also spend less time in it.
Public transportation is very important to reduce your carbon footprint because it makes cars less and for one MRT or bus is equal to the pollution 1 car makes.
Electric cars. When I selected the option "I own an electric car" in the fuel efficiency question, my carbon footprint for that question decreased by more than half.
If there is no public transportation that can get you easily to school, maybe you could have a electric car, but producing it also makes lots of pollution. I think the fastest way is to move to a closer area even though that may be hard. You could also emit less pollution by avoiding traffic jams because we don't stop the car and the car still has air-con inside and is using fuel.
Still, walking saves the most energy because both electric cars and public transportation less or much still use energy. It also uses lots of energy to make those stuff. Walking to school can save a lot of energy. So, if your destination isn't too far away, just walk there.





