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MY Family Footprint

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

Jeeves

I've always thought that my family was very eco friendly, and the carbon footprint proved that in all regard my family outputted less carbon than the average except in one case: Transportation. As it turns out, transportation is one of the largest emitters of carbon, and to fix that, we need to do something. Some things are already being done, such as having electric cars, but we also need to have other alternatives such as hydrogen. Hydrogen powered cars have shown much potential, and have even been available for commercial retail, but have never caught on. Why? Because hydrogen stations are simply not that available for most people. We have to add more hydrogen stations around the world, or other stations for alternatives to gas and diesel transportation. Along with that, governments and school districts to aim  to cut down on carbon emission with their fleets of transportation, and make public transportation available to all. According to PCMag, electrifying all school buses in the United States would lead to a reduction in carbon emissions up to 35%. Along with that, some districts don't offer busing to school, meaning that all students have to come in a car to school, which increases carbon footprints massively. We all need to work together to reduce carbon footprints nationally in order to preserve the environment and this planet we call home.

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