Personally, plane flights are off the table, because my family lives in Europe. My family and I fly to Europe every other year and a roundtrip is about five plane flights. Transportation was the biggest part of my carbon footprint mostly because of the flights I have taken recently.

The same is happened to me. I carpool to school and take the buss home, as well as walked to my old school for the past six years so I figured that my carbon footprint would be lower in the transportation, however I traveled a lot in the past year, which brought my overall up.

Transportation was my biggest impact to my carbon footprint as well! Personally, the town that I live in is relatively small with little to no public transportation. Things are very well spaced apart from each other along the highway because of suburban planning. There are sidewalks but walking to the places I need to go is just not plausible, as it would take upwards of hours. I drive a car that is relatively good on gas, but I still must drive everywhere I need to go on my own since my parents have busy working schedules. I would even attempt to carpool with friends and neighbors to decrease my impact on the Earth, but we all have vastly different after school activities and there is no way to work them out. I wish my town had been developed using smart growth techniques and principles, and that it had more available public transportation.