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?
MY Family Footprint >
My Light Foot
We all have a carbon footprint. Some have a larger foot than others. Before I started the carbon footprint challenge, I thought for sure I would have a small print. I quickly found out that I have a footprint bigger than the total average of a whole school in India. How much bigger? Over double! India’s school average is 4,412 compared to mine which is 10,166. One big problem spot in my life is home energy. LED lights are the best to buy to save the earth. LED’s do not contain toxic mercury, they cost 10 times less than incandescent bulbs, use 10 times less energy than incandescent bulbs, and it lasts 50,000 hours instead of 1,200 hours. In my house we have 13 LED lights out of (exactly) 100. Within the next year I would like to triple the number of LED lights in my house. Then also decrease the number of incandescent bulbs by 20.
you use LEDS Instead of traditional lights because Im pretty sure LEDS conserve a lot more energy than traditional
I think by using LED light it will decrease your carbon footprint by a large number. It will conserve energy.