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 >
My family footprint
In my family, i think we are pretty conservative when it comes to putting carbon into our atmosphere. We have solar lights to light up our front path and we also compost. We use a company called Scrap Dogs to pick up our food scraps each week. We also have heart pumps which conserve energy as well. There are our main source of heating and cooling so that decreases my carbon footprint. Lastly, we also recycle. We make sure to recycle anything that needs to be recycled. The are some things that i feel we could also do better. Everyone in my family showers almost every day. Even if we take 5-10 minute showers, we are still using a lot of water. I can also also work on not buying as many new clothes. I’m sad to say but some of the brands i buy from are fast fashion brands. I need to work on buying from thrift stores more often and not buying from big name brands.