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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My family footprint
When I calculated my family carbon footprint, I was expecting us to be average. When I saw our footprint was about 2500 kg over the average I was astonished. Most of our footprint came from transportation and electricity usage. Our house lights stay on a few hours in the day and in the evening almost all night until bedtime. My mother drives 40 miles round trip dropping me and my brother off at school every morning. That's 80 miles a day not including other daily activities she does that includes driving. To not use as much electricity in the house, my family and I could get solar panels. Also for transportation we could try taking short cuts to not drive as long or carpool with others. These thing could help our environment if everyone took this into serious consideration.