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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green holiday
I have read a lot of articles on internet and on magazines about the carbon footprint, and I saw a lot of TV documentary about the problem and the effects linked with pollution, and they all say that the most polluting means of transport is the airplane. So when last year we decided to go on holiday for Christmas to London, I and my family decided to go there with the train. In the beginning we were a bit worried because the trip was really long (8 hours)!! But then we decided to split the trip in two days: the first Lugano-Basel-Paris and the second day Paris-London. So we had the possibility to know another new famous city too. I think that to go to London by train has a lot of advantages, for example with the train you arrive direct in the centre of London (with the plane you arrive outside the city). Moreover, with the train you can see all the surroundings of the city and the land with a very beautiful view (with the airplane you see the land only from above and for a short time). Another advantage is that you can bring a lot of big suitcases, because there is not t he limit of the weight, like on the airplane. And the last advantage is that you can have a very fantastic holiday without polluting very much.