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
Once I saw my family footprint, I was confused why it was so high. It was shocking to me how much my family was wasting. I realized that traveling a lot really made our family footprint go up. The fact that all of our lights aren't LED also made our footprint go up. In my house, we always have the lights on. We don't always turn the lights off when we leave a room. I need to remind my family to turn off the lights so we aren't wasting so much energy. We are still working on lowering our family footprint.