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 Family's Footprint
When living with other people in a home it is not only important to focus on reducing your own carbon footprint, but also creating new healthy habits for the rest of your family. There are many things you can do as a family such as reducing the amount of water you all use. You can do this by taking shorter showers and running things like the washer and dish washer less. As a family it is also important to cut down on your processed food intake. Processed food is usually made in big factories and uses lots of packaging. My family has been paleo over a year now, this means that we don't eat any processed food. This not only reduces our carbon footprint but is a heathy lifestyle we hope to continue.