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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My family Footprint
My own personal house design would be energy efficient by use of motion sensor lights, low flow toilets and showers. I would use solar to power my house. I would live near my school so there would be little carbon emissions on my commute to school. I would buy organic food that is locally sourced to support agriculture in California. These revisions should bring my family's carbon footprint now. I would also address my biggest carbon waste, travel. I would travel less and not as far to reduce that section.