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 >
Turning off Fans when at school or work
When I calculated my carbon footprint, what stuck out at me was that I left my fan on medium-high 24 hours a day, even while I was at school or outside the house in some other way. I just never thought about what it cost the planet to keep my fan running all day. Now I try to make an effort to reduce the speed and total time my fan is on. This is a simple change that I think my whole family could adopt easily.