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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America makes it very difficult to reduce your carbon footprint.
It is easy to look at the data for Americans' carbon footprints and say that its because all Americans are lazy and greedy(which we sometimes are), but our culture, corporations, and government make it very hard to reduce your carbon footprint. If you want to buy a sustainably made product, it can be hard to find and some companies will intentionally misinform you. It is also almost impossible to travel in America without a car and doing anything about your carbon footprint can be very expensive.