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 Your Family Footprint
Two things that dramatically affect the carbon footprint in a household are water and electricity. Ways to reduce the family footprint are by reducing energy use and water. A way that will reduce water usage would be in the shower. If a person were to get themselves wet in the shower, turn off the water to lather with soap, and then turn on the water for the rinse cycle, a lot of water would be saved and reduced. Solar Panels are an efficient way to use energy. Instead of using electricity, energy will be powered by the sun.