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 Carbon Footprint And What I Can Do
My personal carbon footprint is 29,876. I believe that there can be many things I can do to make a difference to this environment. My category that added a lot of CO2 exposure was travel. I bike to school and home every single day except for the days it rains. The only problem that I have is that my family and I go on a lot of vacations over the summer, we go in the plane to go to Spain to see family members, and on every weekend we go in our motor home to a campground. Using a car so much is not good because it emits so much CO2, the car we use for these travels runs on diesel I went to this website:
http://news.berkeley.edu/2012/10/22/die … g-to-smog/
to see if normal gas is better than diesel and I found out that: Diesel is contributing emissions almost 15 times more than normal gas is. This means that I should try to use the better gas, which will prove to be difficult. But I think that everything we need to try to do to help the enviro nment will be hard because as a society we have developed habits and breaking these types of habits is going to be hard, but I believe that if enough people pitch in and help we can do it.