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 Family Footprint
If I had my own home, I would make sure my house is close enough to my school so that I can walk or bike ride there and not drive. If we could not find a nearby house, we would travel via local transit. Also, in my house, we would try to use as little water as possible. We would get our food from local markets. We would then make our food at home, not going out to restaurants. All of these things would help my family's carbon footprint.