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 my Future Energy usage
To reduce my energy usage, I will [try to] live close to where I work so that I can walk rather than drive. Inside my home, I will not use a dryer I will air-dry my clothes (It has been said that dryers do not take up very much more energy, but if everyone stopped using them a significant amount of energy would be saved). In addition, I will not use a heater or air conditioning system in my house, when it's cold I will wear warmer garments and when it is hot I will use a ceiling fan (but not very often).