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 to Lower YOUR Carbon Footprint
My family has a lower family footprint than the average, and to get your carbon footprints down, I suggest you do at least one of the following. For one, paying close, or closer, attention to whether the packaging being used is recyclable or not, and following accordingly. My family does this all of the time, and by the time our recycling truck comes by, both bins are usually full. The second thing our family does is lower our screen times. We usually are only allowed to play for 1 or 1 and a half hours per day on our devices. I am assuming that this is a big impact on our CO² levels, and even just powering them all the way off is a massive impact. A third thing we do is almost always turning off the lights when we are either not in the house or just in a different room. Even something as small as this is a good help to your CO² levels in the long run.
Doing these easy and simple tasks can greatly contribute to your CO² outputs, and saving energy that isn't necessary to use.