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 my own home, I would use solar panels and collect rain in a rain tank to reduce my carbon footprint and save energy. Solar panels are a substitute for some forms of electricity and save a lot of energy. Rain water can be used for water power and other household things. I would also use public transportation as much as possible.
Your ideas about rain water providing power is very interesting. I think that is actually a very good idea, Between solar panels and the rain water power, the amount of carbon put out by combustion and other sources would be greatly decreased.