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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What can my family do better
In my family we have an average carbon footprint. We can do better as almost everybody else, but what can we do? First of all, we need to make sure that we turn of the lights when we are not using them. Sometimes we forget that which is not good. We can also walk or ride our bike when we are going somewhere instead of driving. It would make a huge difference if everybody would do that when they could. The last thing that I am going to mention is to save water. That means shorter showers, turn the water off while brushing the teeth and only put the dishwasher on start when it is full.