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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If i had a home i would have solar panels to make energy for me during the day and I would unplug everything before i left to work or school. The way i would try to transport the most would be on bike so i don't use my car as much. And when I would make food in order to not throw away must of it i would only make as much as i know i will finish. I would reuse water bottles. Thats what i would do if i had a house.
Why don't you incorporate other forms of energy generators, like wind or water power? That would make you even more efficient.
. If a majority of the houses had solar panels we would save such a larger amount of CO2 from being made. Many people, including us at BOD must use your computers everyday in order to do our work. Yes, we beed to charge our computers everyday and even our phones. I know that there is a large majority of us leaving our computers and Phones plugged in all night so we can wake up with 100% of battery. The average iphone takes a little over 2 hours to charge from 0-100% while its on. Having it charged for at least 8 hours every night is such a waste. If we all unplugged our electronics when not needed to charge, we start to create a decrease. in the CO2 emissions we are creating