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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what we can do
To save the planet we can do a lot in our little daily lives, for example a Led lamp consumes 20% of a normal light bulb (http://www.designrecycleinc.com/led%20comp%20chart.html) and contains fewer toxic elements
I like this idea of energy efficient lights very much. Just switching from incandescent light bulbs to CFL's can have a huge difference according to this article. http://www.earthsfriends.com/cfl-vs-incandescent/. This goes to show that making little changes can help to save the environment as well as saving the homeowner money.
I totally agree, just small things add up, and really do make a difference!