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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Choose well where you will live
You need to choose well where you will live according to your career and your hobbies ! Effectively, transports represent a large part of the pollution.
For example, I live in French Polynesia with my family and even if we only fly once a year, it is always at least 8.000 km by plane (back and forth counted) and for my oral exams, I will have to go to France by plane (at 16.000km). And in the future, I would like to travel several times a year. So, when I leave home, I will settle in a place that makes travel accessible because of shorter distances and therefore less emissions from transport. But if you prefer a sedentary life like my parents, going to live on an island seems like a good choice !
Awareness and action is our role in this society. Let's act for ourselves and our future.