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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Reducing water consumption
My family and I decided to help the environment by reducing the amount of water we use around the house. We are being conscious of the amount of time we spend in the shower. Instead of ten minutes, we try to cut our shower time to five minutes. My mom usually does five loads of laundry a week but now because of our conversations about our carbon footprint, she is trying to contribute by doing three loads of laundry a week. According to http://www3.epa.gov/watersense/about_us/facts.html, forty out of 50 state water managers expect water shortages under average conditions in some portion of their states over the next decade. So it is imperative that we make a concerted effort to make changes in the amount of water we use.