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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Footprint of the Fam
Four people live at my home, each of us has our own car although 3 are owned by my parents and 1 owned by my brother. Each of us use one of these vehicles on a daily basis to get to where we need to go because our destinations in the US are so far away. My dad has to go 17 miles to reach work for example and my school is 8 miles away. Between myself and my dad we drive 50 miles a day round trip. That is the norm for families in the US we are used to driving to do things because our country is so vast it almost makes no sense for everything to be close together. Each week we have dinners that 5 out of 7 days consist of some type of meat product. Our favorite that is cooked often is chicken because it is relatively cheaper than pork and beef. We have generally new appliances that are energy savers and our house is relatively new which is more eco friendly than most houses built in the mid to late 20th century.