I didn't realize how much energy was going into my home, and how much it contributed to my carbon footprint. I think that if I were to turn everything off when it wasn't being used, if I turned the heat down, or even just putting more insulation in the walls would reduce my carbon footprint. We have habits where we leave our flights on by mistake. Whenever I do that, I don't think about how much energy is actually being put into that light bulb, or bulbs to make that happen. I particularly need to be more careful.

I completely agree. After going through the process of finding my carbon footprint, I found that there are huge impacts from some energy sources in my home on the amount of carbon dioxide that I emit. Leaving on lights, for example, has a very big impact on my carbon footprint. This is something that my family does quite often, but now that I know how negatively this impacts my CO2 emissions, I will definitely turn off my lights when I am not using them. Also, leaving my phone plugged in when I don't need to charge it is something that I now try not to do. After this process of finding my carbon footprint, I try to be more careful about not using energy when I don't need it.

I totally agree, and I learned through this program that my home carbon footprint is more the than twice the average for my state because of how many lightbulbs I use. They're even LED! The best thing to do is to turn them off when you leave the room, but even having them off uses a little bit of CO2. A great solution would be to just only use the lights that you really, really need in a room and unscrew the other bulbs that aren't necessary.