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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Me VS my family footprint
I would like to state that my carbon footprint results are lower than the average in my area. This doesn't mean my whole family shares the same results, I like to think I'm more sustainable than them. As a person that's from the younger generations, I tend to care more about the environment and I participate in little things that my parents usually ignore, for an example I always turn the lights off when I walk out of a room, I don't keep the windows open if we are using heat inside the house and others. When talking about my results, the highest carbon rate is connected with home and the amount of trash we throw out. My conclusion is that my carbon footprint is smaller than my parents footprint, most of my carbon footprint comes from having a big waste of trash, but I'd like to proudly add that my waste when talking about gasoline and vehicles is minimal, because I mostly walk everywhere.