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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LED
Simply by replacing all light bulbs with LED lights you can significantly reduce your carbon emissions. LED light bulbs use 85 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs.
this is a simple and smart way of reducing carbon emission. not only do you save energy, you also save money. if you replace 30 light bulbs with LED lights you can save about 4000 pounds of C02 per year.