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 >
How I Would Make My Home Energy Efficient
Having your own home gives you freedom to be creative, to have your own systems within your home, and to essentially do what you want with it. Looking at my calculated home carbon footprint it definitely could be lower. One big factor that could be worked on is the location by home is and since I have to drive to school everyday, the distance between home and school effects how much carbon footprint I’m contributing to. If I could change this I would move a lot closer to school to prevent that, if that wasn’t possible even taking things like the bus would also be a lot better.
Where you get your food is also a huge deal. If possible making a little garden or even just buying groceries locally could help shave down carbon footprint. On top of that taking little steps to notice if I’m not using electricity in the moment to turn it off or when I’m using water to make sure I turn the faucet off when not being used too.